The discovery of the highly mutated new coronavirus variant named Omicron has prompted governments around the world to ban travelers from several southern African countries.

Scientists in South Africa have detected a new Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations.

Uber drivers have blocked the main street leading from the European institutions to the center of Brussels on Thursday in anger about a court ruling which will see their activities halted from Friday evening.

 At least 45 people are killed when a bus with North Macedonian plates caught fire on a highway in western Bulgaria.

The Red Cross says the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have damaged the fabric of the society and will be felt for years.

The World Health Organization warns some half a million more people could die in Europe from COVID-19 by March.

The protesters gathered on the banks and barren riverbed of the Zayandeh Rud River, which has lost almost all its water in recent years.