Geneva: A top World Health Organisation official estimated Monday that COVID-19 vaccination coverage of at least 80% is needed to significantly lower the risk...
Karachi: Two passenger trains collided in Pakistan’s southern Sindh Province early Monday morning, killing at least 36 people and injuring scores of others, according...
Beijing: China has authorised the emergency use of CoronaVac, a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac, for children aged between 3 and 17...
Oxford/Nijmegen: (The Conversation) British broadcaster Jeremy Paxman has revealed he is one of more than 10 million people living with Parkinson's disease worldwide. It...
KABUL: A minivan carrying civilian passengers in northwest Afghanistan was hit by a roadside bomb, leaving at least 11 passengers dead, including three children,...
Niamey (Niger): Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest...
WASHINGTON: Top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might...
People fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are likely to have more than five times lower levels of neutralising antibodies against the Delta variant...
United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic has created an “unparalleled” global labour market crisis that will affect the employment market for years, the International Labor...
UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said only B.1.617.2, one of the three strains of the B.1.617 COVID-19 variant first detected in...
BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host a trilateral meeting with his counterparts from Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday to discuss the Afghan...
UNITED NATIONS: The highly-infectious COVID-19 variant first detected in India "threatens" to rapidly spread in the sub-region, including among refugees, the UN refugee agency...
GENEVA: The B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of the COVID-19, first identified in India, has been named as 'Kappa' and 'Delta' respectively, the World Health...
Health ministers from its 194 members will also meet from November 29
Geneva: The World Health Organization, battling to coordinate the global response to the...
WASHINGTON: More than 1,000 people rallied on Saturday in Washington in support of Palestinians, calling for an end to US aid to Israel.
The demonstration...
The European Medicines Agency on Friday recommended that the use of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech be expanded to children ages...
WASHINGTON: External affairs minister S Jaishankar met influential American lawmakers from both the Democratic and Republican parties on Thursday and discussed developments pertaining to...
Washington: President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence agencies to redouble their efforts in investigating the emergence of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic and...
JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Tuesday to “rally international support” to aid Gaza following a devastating war there while keeping any...
Washington: The security assistance to Pakistan that was suspended by the previous Trump administration remains to be the same, the Pentagon said on Monday...
Washington: Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the Covid-19 pandemic, the...