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Official results from Portugal’s presidential election give a clear victory to the center-right incumbent candidate, who was returned to office for a final five-year term

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday about obtaining doses of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. hospital intensive care units in many parts of the country are straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients

Thousands marched a second day, calling for impeachment of President Bolsonaro.

Rioters have set blazes in the center of the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven and pelted police with rocks at a banned demonstration against coronavirus lockdown measures

Exit poll suggests the center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal's presidential election

The school district ordered has ordered in-person instruction to resume.

Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law has gone into force under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full implementation despite opposition from conservative and church groups

Chicago teachers vote to defy district's orders to return to in-person instruction before vaccinations

Turkey has recorded more than 2.4 million infections since the first in March.

U.S. hospital intensive care units in many parts of the country are straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients

Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen more than 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000

the critical care capacity has more than doubled and is nearly full.

One year after Wuhan’s lockdown, the Chinese city has long since sprung back to life

New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the virus was spreading in the community

A Chinese city has brought 2,600 temporary treatment rooms online as the country’s north battles new clusters of coronavirus

A year ago, a notice sent to smartphones in Wuhan at 2 a.m. announced the world’s first coronavirus lockdown

Sri Lanka’s health minister who has faced criticism for consuming and endorsing a herbal syrup made by a sorcerer has tested positive for COVID-19

President Joe Biden pledged in his inaugural address to level with the American people — and the message from his first three days in office has been nothing if not grim and grimmer

Food is a growing focus for insurers as they look to improve people's health.

Community health centers care for approximately 30 million Americans.

Independent pharmacists said they want to help with COVID-19 vaccinations.

Thousands of Hong Kong residents are locked down in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening outbreak in the city

Lebanon's hospitals are on the brink: Unable to keep up with coronavirus patients, they have run out of beds, oxygen tanks, ventilators and medical staff

Denmark has temporarily suspended all flights from the United Arab Emirates for five days after suspicions arose that the coronavirus tests that can be obtained before leaving Dubai are not reliable

Advocacy groups are warning that immigrants may be some of the most difficult people to reach during the largest vaccination campaign in American history

Advocacy groups are warning that immigrants may be some of the most difficult people to reach during the largest vaccination campaign in American history

President Joe Biden pledged in his inaugural address to level with the American people — and the message from his first three days in office has been nothing if not grim and grimmer

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is walking back his claims that his state has now vaccinated 1 million seniors

Health officials say the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Arizona are declining despite the state having the worst infection rate in the country

With millions of Americans waiting for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine, a fortunate few are getting bumped to the front of the line as clinics scramble to get rid of extra, perishable doses at the end of the day

Brazil’s government has received 2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from India

A bill meant to preserve lives of newborns, including any infant born after a failed abortion, has become law in Kentucky

What the COVID-19 vaccination means to Ohio resident Tom Pappas.

A bar owner accused of running over a New York City sheriff’s deputy with a car last month will only face criminal charges alleging he served patrons indoors in defiance of state coronavirus restrictions

Pfizer has committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a global effort to get affordable shots to poor and middle-income countries

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning that his government could impose stricter restrictions on travelers at any moment in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the coronavirus

Venezuela’s political conflict has claimed another casualty: relief from the coronavirus pandemic

The British government's chief scientific adviser says there is some evidence that a new variant of the coronavirus first identified in southeast England carries a higher risk of death than the original strain

Twitter says it's permanently banned an account that some in Iran believe is linked to the office of the country's supreme leader, after a posting that seemed to threaten former President Donald Trump

Public outrage is growing in Spain as cases of politicians and well-connected opportunists jumping the queue in the national coronavirus vaccination campaign come to light, even as delivery delays have forced some regions to stop new inoculations

The clearest sign that there’s a new boss at the White House is the deference being paid to coronavirus public health guidelines

Authorities in Greece say high schools will reopen on Feb. 1 for the first time since mid-November, but that nationwide lockdown measures will remain in effect

After surviving nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from former President Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci is back

Beijing has ordered more coronavirus tests for about 2 million people in its downtown area after new cases were reported in the Chinese capital. The city health department said all residents of the Xicheng and Dongcheng districts are required to undergo testing on Friday and Saturday. Results are usually delivered by smartphone app within a few hours. In one neighborhood in Dongcheng, several thousand people lined up in freezing temperatures around a corner and down several blocks, waiting to enter a building for testing. They included a group of street sweepers who stood out in their high-visibility red and green uniforms from others wearing dark winter jackets. Everyone wore a mask. Compulsory testing has been a key feature of China’s push to contain a new wave of virus outbreaks, and many shops, office buildings and residential compounds now require proof of a recent negative test carried on a cellphone app to gain entry. Beijing has recorded just over a dozen new cases...

The death toll from the coronavirus in Germany has passed 50,000, a number that has risen swiftly over recent weeks even as infection figures are finally declining

Shanghai has imposed lockdowns on two of China’s best-known hospitals after they were linked to new coronavirus cases

Sri Lanka has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to prevent the medical system from collapsing

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a further 10 million doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine could arrive in Turkey by this weekend

The state had its deadliest week yet during the pandemic.