Geneva: The World Health Organization has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom...
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced his “total commitment” to rejecting anti-Muslim bigotry, hate and all forms of intolerance, urging all to...
KARACHI: A day after a Pakistan Airlines passenger plane crashed into a Karachi neighbourhood, authorities said there were two survivors and 97 victims in...
Karachi: Many people are feared dead after a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 107 people on board crashed into a densely populated residential...
Kabul: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad reported he had a "constructive meeting" with senior Taliban leaders in Doha, and discussed...
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian Authority will no longer be committed to any signed agreements with Israel or the United States,...
Kabul: At least 10 villagers were killed and 14 others wounded in two separate gun shootings in Afghanistan, authorities said on Wednesday.
In one incident...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump attacked the United Nations health body as a Chinese "puppet" on Monday and confirmed he is considering slashing or canceling...
BEIJING: Chinese health experts involved in the country’s fight against the coronavirus believe the worst is now over, downplaying warnings that the disease could...
Washington: US president Donald Trump on Sunday called his predecessor Barak Obama a ‘grossly incompetent president'.
Trump's reaction came after Obama on Saturday criticised the...
TEHRAN: Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, renewing Iran’s demand for U.S. troops...
GENEVA: Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practised in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's coronavirus cases crossed 40,000 on Sunday after 1,352 new infections were detected, while the death toll in the country has gone up...
UNITED NATIONS: China on Friday issued a statement calling on all U.N. member states to “actively fulfill their financial obligations to the United Nations,”...
WASHINGTON: Whistleblower Dr Rick Bright warned on Thursday that the U.S. lacks a plan to produce and fairly distribute a coronavirus vaccine when it...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN's children agency has warned that an additional 6,000 children could die daily from preventable causes over the next six months...
Islamabad: The trade activities between Pakistan and Iran at the Taftan border crossing have resumed after remaining suspended for more than two months as...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will enforce a round-the-clock nationwide curfew during the five-day Eid al-Fitr holiday later this month to fight the coronavirus, the interior...
LONDON: Coronavirus cases crossed 4.19 million worldwide on Tuesday while the global Covid-19 death toll hovers over 285,100, a Reuters tally stated.
The United States,...