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Global leaders have jointly called for a pandemic treaty, although the U.S. and China are missing from the list.

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U.K. health officials are anxious to trace one of six individuals infected with a more contagious variant of the coronavirus, initially identified in Brazil.

It was tipped as the most crucial budget statement in the history of a democratic South Africa.

Cuomo said on Sunday that a Covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa has reached New York.

Ashley Judd “shattered” her leg in four places while in the Congo, she revealed during an Instagram Live with The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof.

The blue-chip Dow and the S&P 500 have risen for six days straight, marking their longest winning streak since August.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca is racing to adapt its Covid-19 vaccine in the face of new variants of the virus.

President Joe Biden has reinstated COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders

The identification of a new Covid variant comes as countries scramble to contain two other contagious strains that have emerged in the U.K. and South Africa.

A new variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa is more of a risk than the mutation found in the U.K., according to Britain’s health minister.

Researchers are concerned about reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily.

The report that U.S. President Donald Trump made crude, disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning former leader, has drawn an angry response from South Africa’s ruling party and others. According to a book written by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Trump said that Mandela, who guided South Africa in its politically fraught transition from...

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid figures Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died aged 59

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country will immediately return to a ban on the sale of alcohol to reduce the volume of trauma patients so that hospitals have more beds to treat COVID-19 patients

Deserted streets and shuttered businesses may be an ominous sight for humans, but the animal world doesn’t seem to be complaining.  As the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep countries around the world on lockdown, wild animals – like goats in Wales or baby turtles in Brazil – appear to be enjoying the lack of bustling activity. In South Africa, lions…

Lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru and airlifted to South Africa scratched their manes on trees and explored their new territory in the African bush after being released into a sanctuary north of Johannesburg Sunday. One of the 33 lions, a male known as Zeus, let out a mighty roar before stepping out of his cage into an...

Tokyo Olympic organizers and two government bodies building venues for next year’s games have until the end of the month to agree to outside inspections on construction sites. Ambet Yuson, the general secretary of the Building and Wood Workers’ International, made the request on Thursday to officials of the Tokyo organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japan Sport...

While Meghan, Duchess of Sussex stayed behind in South Africa with baby Archie Harrison as husband Prince Harry embarked on solo trips elsewhere in Africa, she made an unexpected appearance alongside him in Malawi. On Sunday, the Duke of Sussex met with students and alumni supported by U.K. scholarships from Campaign for Female Education at the Nalikule College of Education....

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has visited a memorial to a young South African woman whose rape and murder inspired thousands of people to protest the country’s high rate of sexual violence. In a quiet stop during a royal tour, Meghan tied a ribbon to the memorial at the post office where 19-year-old university student Uyinene Mrwetyana was attacked last...