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U.S. to share up to 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses globally: White House

By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will start to share up to 60 million doses of AstraZeneca (More…)

Nigerian kidnappers execute two more student captives, says state official

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian criminals have killed two more student captives abducted from a northern university last week, said (More…)

Roshan the camel brings books to homeschooling children in rural Pakistan

(Reuters) – Plodding his way through the desert in remote southwest Pakistan, Roshan the camel carries priceless cargo: books for (More…)

Important to get U.S. vaccine help along border, Mexican official says

By Adriana Barrera and Cassandra Garrison

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is ramping up requests for more COVID-19 shots from (More…)

Unsealed Soviet archives reveal cover-ups at Chernobyl plant before disaster

KYIV (Reuters) – The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the (More…)

Philippines seeks to lift medical capacity as COVID-19 cases top one million

By Adrian Portugal and Neil Jerome Morales

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines announced on Monday that its COVID-19 cases had (More…)

Grieving relatives pay respects to doomed Indonesian submariners

CELUKAN BAWANG, Indonesia (Reuters) -The Indonesian navy was on Monday trying to work out how it could salvage the remains (More…)

Lawmakers urge Biden to back ‘moral’ patent waiver to speed vaccine access

By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers and nonprofit groups on Friday heaped pressure on the Biden administration to (More…)

California governor seeks end to oil drilling in state by 2045

(Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday directed state agencies to end new fracking permits by 2024 and to analyze (More…)

Odor from U.S. Caribbean refinery prompts school closures, investigation

By Laura Sanicola

(Reuters) -A “noxious” gaseous smell coming from St Croix’s recently reopened refinery that caused schools to close (More…)