The Covid-19 pandemic can be considered over as it is now an endemic disease, German virologist Christian Drosten said in comments to the Tagesspiegel newspaper published on Monday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is looking to India for support in implementing a peace formula to end the war in Ukraine following a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The strong winter storm that has hit the United States has resulted in the cancellation of thousands of flights during the long Christmas weekend.

France charged a suspected gunman on Monday with last week’s murder of three Kurds in Paris, as hundreds of people marched in the French capital to pay tribute to the victims, Agence France-Presse reported.

Afghanistan’s Economy Ministry has ordered all national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a letter to suspend the jobs of their female employees until further notice.

A 69-year-old white French gunman who opened fire at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris, killing three people, told investigators he was racist, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a source close to the case.

Five people were killed and 20 others injured in Russian shelling of the centre of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, according to Kiev’s presidential administration.

The US Senate overwhelmingly passed the mammoth fiscal 2023 spending package in a burst of activity on the floor Thursday after finally nailing down an amendments deal it took all day Wednesday and into the morning to hammer out.