Thousands of excited passengers flocked into Heathrow Airport on Monday for the first flights to the United States out of London since the Biden Administration lifted a travel ban on international visitors. They were welcomed by dozens of airline staff who beamed and waved American flags as they ushered guests toward designated areas for documentation […]

Britain’s health secretary is urging eligible residents to get booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine, aiming to reduce pressure on the country’s health system as winter approaches. Ten million Britons, largely those over age 50, have received booster shots since the government began offering them, and millions more will be invited in the coming weeks […]

Bill Richardson, the American ex-diplomat, has made numerous trips to Myanmar since the 1990s. He has negotiated with the generals who ruled it, then and now. He has been an ally and later a critic of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, its most popular politician, who is once again a prisoner of the army. Mr. […]

A federal appeals panel on Saturday temporarily blocked a new vaccine mandate for large businesses, in a sign that the Biden administration may face an uphill battle in its biggest effort yet to combat the virus among the American work force. The stay, issued by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]

At least 98 people were killed when a tanker truck exploded on Friday night after a crash in the capital of Sierra Leone. Many of the victims were motorcycle riders and taxi drivers who had been trying to collect leaked fuel at the time of the blast, in the Wellington area of the capital, Freetown, […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — For a year now, fighters from Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray have faced off against Ethiopia’s army largely alone, repulsing their attacks, capturing towns and this week, advancing on the capital, Addis Ababa. But on Friday, the Tigrayans announced that they were banding together with eight other opposition groups to oust Prime […]

GLASGOW — Thousands of climate activists from across the world have descended this week on the Scottish city of Glasgow, demanding that nations gathering for a global climate conference produce real, meaningful change. And some of the strongest and most urgent calls for action have come from young protesters who claim that the world they […]

Europe is again experiencing near-record levels of coronavirus cases, and could experience half a million Covid-related deaths in the next three months, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. Europe accounted for 59 percent of the world’s newly reported coronavirus cases last week, and for nearly half the world’s Covid-related deaths, Hans Kluge, the W.H.O.’s […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian police charged a man on Thursday over the abduction of a 4-year-old girl who was found after an 18-day search that had transfixed Australia since her disappearance from her family’s tent in the dead of night. The Western Australia police said in a statement that the 36-year-old man, whom local […]

There are downsides to most Covid-19 precautions. Keeping children home from school can cause them to fall behind. Working from home can impede creativity. Staying away from friends and relatives can damage mental health. Wearing masks can muffle speech, hide smiles and fog eyeglasses. For all of these reasons, the ideal Covid policy for any […]