Europe has again become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, accounting for a third of cases worldwide as it battles a surge in Omicron infections. The region, which spans 52 countries and territories from the Atlantic coast to Azerbaijan and Russia, has surpassed 100 million cases since the virus outbreak ...
Kazakhstan’s president fired the powerful head of the country’s security council on Wednesday in an attempt to calm the worst unrest to rock the Central Asian nation for more than a decade. Protesters, initially angered by a New Year’s Day fuel price rise, have stormed and torched public buildings and ...