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Omicron, which has raised global fears of a surge in infections, was first detected in southern Africa last month and has prompted governments across continents to impose travel curbs and take other measures to contain it.

The findings provided the first epidemiological evidence about Omicron's ability to evade immunity from prior infection.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Thursday that the administration's goal for offshore wind and the projects being developed now represent a gust of job growth throughout the country.

With the help a 99cent can of paint, New York's Domino Park created one of the most unlikely successes of the COVID19 pandemic social distancing circles painted in public places, which have shown that when conditions are right, people embrace radical rul...

Gun control activist X González has a message for people: Do not underestimate the power of your voice, it can effect change.

Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi is expected to announce his resignation on Friday to pave the way for a possible resolution of a diplomatic spat between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia sparked by comments he made, sources said on Thursday.

The prefect of Guadeloupe, the representative of the French central state in the overseas territory, on Thursday said he would extend a nightly curfew until Dec. 7, citing a continued threat to public order amid protest over COVID19 rules.

The researchers found that the vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection was 87 per cent.

The World Bank's board has endorsed transferring $280 million from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to two aid agencies to help the country cope with a faltering economy following the Taliban takeover and the U.S. withdrawal, two sources familiar with the...

Colorados health department announced Wednesday that emergency workers should not use a condition involving erratic behavior by people as a reason to inject them with the drug ketamine. The announcement came two years after the fatal arrest of a Black man...

Even at a time football generally dominates television ratings, the long Thanksgiving Day weekend was notable.

An 11person collective from Belfast that aims to transcend Northern Irelands political and religious divides won the U.K.s prestigious Turner Prize for art on Wednesday.

Nearly two dozen FedEx packages have been found dumped in woods along a rural road in an Alabama town about 75 miles from a ravine where hundreds of undelivered FedEx parcels previously were discovered, police said Wednesday.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recognized the state's first Black poet laureate, a creative writing teacher who delves into inequality and the difficulty of being Black in America, on Wednesday in the same building where Southern delegates voted to form the Confed...

The coronavirus outbreak has killed 2,976 people and infected 214,113 in Nigeria, according to official statistics, but the real figures are believed to be much higher.

Lauded for her steady hand in steering the bloc through crisis after crisis, Merkel is leaving the stage while still immensely popular at home and abroad.