International

The White House said Friday it would allow international travellers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 into the U.S. starting Nov. 8, lifting a ban on visitors from the European Union, UK and many other countries. The…

US: Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocketship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert on Wednesday to become at age 90 the oldest person ever in space as US billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos’s company…

SOUTH AFRICA: The family of late South African President Nelson Mandela is selling the anti-apartheid leader's personal belongings to help pay for a memorial garden being built in his honor. Among the roughly 100 items are the…

Former US President Bill Clinton has been receiving hospital treatment in California for a "non-Covid-related infection". Clinton, 75, is "on the mend" and "in good spirits" after being admitted to UC Irvine Medical Center on…

India is set to reopen its borders to overseas travellers as it relaxes Covid-related restrictions amid a drop in daily infections. Starting Friday, the country will grant tourist visas to travellers arriving on chartered…

At least 32 people have been killed and 45 others wounded after an explosion went off inside a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, according to public health officials in the province. The explosion on Friday…

A British lawmaker was stabbed to death in a church on Friday by an assailant who lunged at him during a meeting with voters from his constituency, a killing police are investigating as a possible terrorist attack. Police said a…

CHINA: China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned against what it called possible “political manipulation” of a renewed probe by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origins of the coronavirus, while saying it would support…

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi has appealed to the world for good relations but avoided making firm commitments on girls’ education, despite international demands to allow all Afghan…

NORWAY: A 37-year-old man was charged Thursday in connection with a bow-and-arrow rampage in a small town in Norway that killed five people, and police said they had been in contact with him in the past over concerns that he had been…