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JAPAN: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday he will not run for re-election as party leader this month, effectively ending his tenure after just one year, his party’s secretary general said. Suga announced his intention to…

US: Flash flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed at least 44 people in the New York area overnight into Thursday, including several who perished in basements during the “historic” weather event officials blamed on…

Suspecting that the accused in the recent Sri Lankan arms and drugs seizure case were aiding the revival of the activities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has moved a…

To better prepare and protect the world from global disease threats, German Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization Director-General, will today inaugurate the new WHO Hub for…

From his office window, Brig. Gen. Joshua Olson can see a daily football match organized by the Afghan children who are temporarily calling his air base home. "This is now my family -- at least until they get off our airpatch,"…

It looked like a zombie apocalypse. About to make the final U.S. takeoffs out of Afghanistan, U.S. military pilots and air crew saw a sky lit up with fireworks and sporadic gunfire and an airfield littered with the battered shells of…

Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance. A large, randomized trial led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University has…

A third dose of the Moderna vaccine - given six months after the initial two doses - significantly boosts immunity, according to data the company submitted to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. The data comes from 344…

Not everyone agrees that COVID-19 booster shots are necessary for all vaccinated persons, and that discord may slow down plans to roll out extra doses of the mRNA vaccines later this month and change who is eligible for them.…

More than half of India's eligible population - some 473 million people - have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, official data says. India administered more than 10 million doses on Tuesday, as it ramps up its…