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“The U.K. is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home for COVID-19,” Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said. (Image credit: Justin Tallis/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

U.K. health regulators cleared molnupiravir, becoming the first country to authorize the pill that can be taken at home and promises to keep people out of the hospital. The U.S. is expected to follow in coming months.

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Capture of MV Sothys in Gulf of Oman has set off a diplomatic spat between Washington and Tehran, in the latest incident to cause maritime tensions in Mideast

Noor makes rare public comment about royal family matters, expressing hope that her son Hamzah, accused of sedition, ‘will be justly freed ASAP’

A town in northern England wants to open a coking coal mine to create jobs. But while hosting the U.N. climate summit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging countries to slash greenhouse gases. (Image credit: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images)

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The dramatic drop in carbon dioxide emissions from the pandemic lockdown has pretty much disappeared in a puff of coal-fired smoke, much of it from China, a new scientific study found. A group of scientists who

The rising number of cases of Covid-19 in Europe is of “grave concern” and the region could see another half a million deaths by early next year, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. With 78 million cases in the

As the Delta variant puts China through one of its biggest Covid-19 outbreaks since it first closed off Wuhan in early 2020, new lockdowns and other strict controls are taking place across the country.