Category: Foreign

New Zealand’s parliament, on Wednesday, unanimously approved a law that would give couples who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth three days of paid leave.     The bereavement leave for miscarriage…

British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were…

Britain could shortly place France on a travel “red list” and tighten Channel border controls due to the risk of new coronavirus variants, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday. France…

The University of Aberdeen in Scotland is to return a Benin bronze sculpture to Nigeria, saying it was acquired by British soldiers in 1897 in “reprehensible circumstances”. It is the…

Denis Sassou Nguesso, incumbent president of the Republic of Congo, has been re-elected into office. According to provincial election results announced on Tuesday, Nguesso won 88.57 percent of the votes.…

Spain’s parliament will give final approval to a law legalising euthanasia Thursday, becoming one of the few nations to allow terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering. The…

Queen Elizabeth II’s oldest son and heir on Wednesday criticised opposition to coronavirus vaccines, as British ministers sought to calm public fears about safety. Prince Charles said there was no…

US manufacturer Moderna on Tuesday said it has started Covid-19 vaccine trials for children aged from 6 months to under 12 years old, with plans to enroll about 6,750 participants.…

Queen Elizabeth II’s 99-year-old husband Prince Philip left a central London hospital on Tuesday, an AFP reporter witnessed, after four weeks of treatment, including a successful heart procedure. Buckingham Palace…

President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France was suspending the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, pending a review of its safety by the European Medicines Agency. “The decision…