Italy plans to lift quarantine restrictions for some travelers from mid-May
MILAN — Italy plans to lift quarantine restrictions for travelers arriving from European countries, Britain and Israel as early as mid-May in a bid to revive the tourism industry, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Saturday.
Chinese rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean, draws criticism from NASA
By Ryan Woo
BEIJING - Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the...
Australia’s most populous state extends COVID restrictions in hunt for outbreak source
SYDNEY - Australia's most populous state recorded no new COVID-19 infections for a third straight day on Sunday but extended raised social distancing and...
Putin to review Russian military might as tensions with West soar
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin is expected to review Russia's traditional World War Two victory parade on Sunday, a patriotic display of raw military...
Cyber attack shuts down U.S. fuel pipeline ‘jugular,’ Biden briefed
By Stephanie Kelly and Christopher Bing
NEW YORK - Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network, the source of nearly half of the U.S. East Coast's...
Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
Facebook Inc. oversight board’s extension of former US President Donald J. Trump’s banishment from the social network failed to settle how it will balance...
Are US firms ready to do more than voice concerns on trans rights?
NEW YORK — Leading US companies have become more vocal in criticizing proposed laws restricting transgender rights and taking a stand on LGBT+ issues...
Twitter shuts down accounts for attempting to evade Trump ban
Twitter Inc. suspended several accounts this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of former US President Donald J....
WTO vaccine waiver could take months to negotiate, faces opposition — experts
WASHINGTON — World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on a waiver of intellectual property rights for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines could take months —...
On vaccinating the globe, Blinken warns: ‘We have to speed this up’
NEW YORK — Vaccinating the globe against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) needs to be sped up to beat mutations of the virus, and the...
Australia says international borders might not fully reopen until mid-to-late 2022
SYDNEY — Australia’s international borders might not fully reopen until the middle or second half of 2022, Trade Minister Dan Tehan said on Friday,...
US backs giving poorer countries access to COVID-19 vaccine patent
WASHINGTON — President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies.