Washington: US President Joe Biden has said that he is convinced and has reason to believe that Russian forces will attack Ukraine, including its capital Kyiv, in the coming week, warning that Russia will be responsible for a “catastrophic and needless war of choice” if it pursues its plans. Biden’s comments came amid heightened tensions […]
New Delhi: Russia on Friday welcomed India’s position on the Ukraine crisis, amid spike in tensions between the NATO countries and Moscow over the situation in the eastern European nation. The reaction came a day after India said at the UN Security Council that “quiet and constructive diplomacy” is the need of the hour and […]
Mild- to moderate-intensity exercise for 90 minutes after getting a flu or COVID-19 vaccine may boost the levels of antibodies in the body, according to a study. The findings, published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, could directly benefit people with a range of fitness levels. Participants who cycled on a stationary bike or […]
US health regulators on Friday authorised a new antibody drug that targets the Omicron variant, a key step in restocking the nation’s arsenal against the latest version of Covid-19. The Food and Drug Administration said it cleared the Eli Lilly drug for adults and adolescent patients with mild-to-moderate cases of Covid-19. Lilly announced work on […]
Washington: India faces “very significant challenges”, in particular from China and its behaviour in the Line of Actual Control, the White House has said, as it unveiled the Biden administration’s first region-specific report on the strategic Indo-Pacific. The report on US’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, released on Friday, outlines President Joe Biden’s vision to firmly anchor the […]
Riyadh: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Thursday that 12 people were injured by falling debris from an attempted drone attack on an airport in the southern Saudi region of Abha near the kingdom’s border with Yemen. The coalition statement said the people who were hurt included travellers and workers at the airport. Two […]
BEIJING: Ahead of Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting on Friday, China said on Wednesday that it was opposed to “exclusive blocs” to create bloc confrontation and the four-nation alliance should stop driving wedges between regional countries. In November 2017, the US, Australia, India and Japan gave shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization says coronavirus case counts fell 17% worldwide over the last week compared to the previous week, including a 50% drop in the United States, while deaths globally declined 7%. The weekly epidemiological report from the U.N. health agency, released late Tuesday, shows that the omicron variant is increasingly dominant — […]
United Nations: The United States and its allies clashed with Russia and China in the UN Security Council on Monday over the usefulness and impact of UN sanctions, which are currently imposed on countries from North Korea to Yemen and Congo as well the al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups and their affiliates and supporters. […]
The vaccine-induced protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection wanes within a few months, but protection against severe COVID-19 appears to be better maintained, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. Researchers noted that the protection wanes at different speeds depending on the type of vaccine used. “The bad news is that the protection against infection […]