Just four in 10 people in France want to have a vaccination against Covid-19, a poll showed Tuesday, as concern also grows over the slow start to the country's immunisation campaign. According to the

Chinese meat importers and processors have called on exporters in countries with COVID-19 outbreaks to step up checks on shipments before they are sent to the world's biggest market, the country's

Lebanon's outgoing premier Hassan Diab said Tuesday that an FBI investigation into an August 4 explosion at the Beirut port found it was caused by 500 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The prime minister,

Britain's government reported 53,135 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest number since mass testing started in mid-2020 and up sharply from the previous record of 41,385 set on Monday. The

Burundi's former president Pierre Buyoya was buried on Tuesday in Mali, thousands of kilometres (miles) from his home country, where he had been given a life sentence, an AFP reporter saw. A senior

AstraZeneca has filed data with Chilean regulators for the emergency roll-out of its COVID-19 vaccine in the country and could get a green light "weeks or even days" after approval by European or

Palestinian armed groups staged military exercises in Gaza on Tuesday, including firing rockets into the sea, to mark the anniversary of the start of the 2008 conflict with Israel. The first came in

Nashville Mayor John Cooper on Monday told CNN that President Donald Trump has not yet contacted him following a bombing on Christmas Day. This is part of a broader trend with Trump, who's often been

Jihadists on Tuesday attacked a village close to a huge gas project in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, in the latest assault by the shadowy group, sources said. Cabo Delgado is the site

A woman who said she is a Disney employee in her early 30s claimed in a Facebook post that she received a vaccine from a California hospital with the help of family connections, The Orange County