A Venezuelan government delegation on Thursday held a protest outside Argentina's embassy in Caracas against the grounding of a cargo plane and its crew in Buenos Aires on the US diktat.

The death toll from devastating floods in eastern Australia rose to 20 on Tuesday, after two more bodies were discovered in floodwaters in Sydney, reports said.

Campaigning for South Korea’s presidential election officially kicked off on Tuesday, in what is expected to be the tightest race for the top post in 20 years.

Japan’s Osaka prefecture is set to report a record-high of 6,000 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the union government moves to impose tougher restrictions amid a rapid surge in the Omicron strain.

Daniel Ortega is sworn in as the Nicaraguan President for a fourth consecutive term after the US and European Union imposed fresh sanctions on several figures in his government.

Public health services in Canada are hit hard amid steep rise in new infections fueled by the Omicron variant of coronavirus, causing staff shortage and delayed emergency response.

Dozens of countries across four continents log record number of infections from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus this week, underlining challenges facing both rich and poor nations.

More than 3500 flights are canceled by airlines around the world as the omicron variant of the coronovirus spreads, triggering chaotic scenes at airports at the busiest time of the year for travel.

France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, appearing on the French television LCI on Sunday, said 21 mosques that showed signs of extremism were closed in the country.

In an urgent call to action ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, the report warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is deepening the inequalities, setting the goal of ending the disease as a public health threat by 2030.