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The Philippine peso has been under siege from rising Treasury yields and buoyant crude prices. But technicals may offer some support.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s slim chances of returning to frontline politics were dealt a potentially fatal blow after he was found guilty of corruption by a Paris court.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake off Fukushima in eastern Japan injured more than 100 people, authorities said Sunday, nearly a decade after the region suffered a devastating quake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader leader Mitch McConnell reached a two-year power-sharing deal, according to a person familiar with the agreement, formally giving Democrats committee chairmanships and setting other ground rules, allowing the chamber to begin fully functioning after weeks of procedural limbo.

Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine generated strong protection against Covid-19 in a large, late-stage trial, raising hopes that it can rapidly reshape a stumbling immunization campaign.

UNITED NATIONS (Bloomberg) -- Vaccine coverage won’t reach a point that would stop transmission of the virus in the foreseeable future, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday as United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world is risking more virus variations by not pushing for vaccines in developing nations.

Donald Trump departed the White House a final time as president on Wednesday, skipping Joe Biden’s inauguration and instead throwing a military-style send-off for himself before he leaves for his Florida resort.

One of the few duties of the vice president spelled out in the Constitution is breaking ties in the Senate, but Vice President-elect Kamala Harris hopes she doesn’t have to do it much.

Global gaps in access to COVID19 vaccines are raising concerns that the continued spread of the coronavirus will breed more dangerous versions of the pathogen, weakening medical weapons and further crippling economies.

Norway expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine on elderly people with serious underlying health conditions after raising an estimate of the number who died after receiving inoculations to 29.

The nations quickest to enact social distancing and contact-tracing systems have mostly kept COVID-19 in check, but their citizens now find themselves lagging in receiving the shots needed to finally end a pandemic that has devastated millions of lives.

The World Health Organization’s mission to trace the origins of COVID-19 got off to a rocky start on Thursday, with two members of the 15-person delegation denied entry to China after failing to clear health-screening procedures.

KKR & Co. raised $3.9 billion for its first Asia-Pacific infrastructure fund, amassing the largest pool of cash in the region for investments in everything from waste management and renewable energy to communication towers.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Bloomberg) -- Malaysia’s king declared a state of emergency in the Southeast Asian nation, in a move that could allow the embattled government to delay elections as it tackles the worsening coronavirus pandemic.

Arnold Schwarzenegger offered his trademark parting message to Donald Trump after last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by the president’s supporters: “You are terminated, Mr. President,” Schwarzenegger told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

WASHINGTON, United States — The House will take up a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time in less than two years unless Vice President Mike Pence and the cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment this week to remove him from office, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said authorities have found a new strain of the coronavirus in four passengers arriving from Brazil.

Pfizer, Inc. and BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine may protect against the new fast-spreading variants of the coronavirus that have emerged in the UK and South Africa, according to a study.