Following is a summary of current science news briefs.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for a 90-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan and a new United Nations-led peace effort as he warned the United States could withdraw all forces after May 1, according to a letter to Afghan...

Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective against the P1, or Brazilian, variant, a source with knowledge of the study told Reuters on Fr...

German MP Nikolas Löbel, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, will quit parliament and not seek re-election. The reason? A series of deals on protective face masks that landed Löbel around €250,000....

At least 20 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in a car bomb blast in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday night, police and emergency services said.

About 7.1 million people will head to polling stations across the country for the mandatory vote on Sunday.

Voters to choose new Parliament following a violent presidential election.

President Macron says Olivier Dassault's death in a helicopter crash in Normandy is a great loss.

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets. The measure to amend the Swiss constitution passed by...

North Macedonia received the first batch of Russian Sputnik V vaccines on Sunday after it began inoculations last month, Health Minister Venko Filipce said. The first shipment of 3,000 vaccines out of 200,000 that were ordered was flown to...

The United States and South Korea have reached agreement in principle on a new arrangement that calls for Seoul to boost its contribution to the cost of U.S. forces stationed in the country, the State Department said on Sunday.

The first step of the coronavirus lockdown brings the return of schools and limited social contact

French President Emmanuel Macron calls Dassault's 'sudden death' a 'tragic loss'.

Yemen's Houthi rebels say they fired drones and ballistic missiles at oil facilities and military sites in Saudi Arabia.

Conservative billionaire politician Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter.