REUTERS/ Willy Kurniawan/ File Photo The global surge in cases is highlighting the widening gap in

has shown that restrictions on food exports inevitably push global prices up further as importers

advanced amidst ongoing concerns over the rising COVID-19 cases globally and better United States

Next month, France will vote on a bill to create a vaccine pass that will allow only inoculated people to enter public places, including restaurants, bars and movie theaters. The measures come after France for the first time recorded more than 100, 000 coronavirus infections in a single day.... New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all businesses to bar unvaccinated employees from the workplace took effect Monday; the measure was announced three weeks ago, soon after Omicron gained

A woman wearing a face mask to guard against COVID-19 carries bags of shopping along Oxford Street in London, on Dec.... In Britain, where the highly contagious variant of the coronavirus has sent caseloads soaring to record highs, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Monday no further restrictions will be introduced in England before the new year.... Elsewhere in the United Kingdom, though, nightclubs have been ordered closed and limits on gatherings imposed in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wal

As the world emerges painfully from the Covid-19 pandemic, new worries appear to dominate global

investors grappled with mixed economic data and considered the economic impact of the ongoing spread of the

Global economies may be rebounding but the rapid spread of the Delta variant will continue to pose

lingering fears over the COVID-19 Omicron variant which is currently spreading both in the country

Minneapolis, shows another small group using the same maneuver.... In their spread, their simultaneity and