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AFGHANISTAN: Carrying his rifle down by his side, Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, became the last US soldier to board the final flight out of Afghanistan a minute before midnight on Monday.…

BELGIUM: EU member states strove Tuesday to find consensus on how to help Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries take in refugees fleeing the Taliban and prevent an influx of migrants comparable to 2015. “We need to avoid a…

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…

A new coronavirus strain, named Mu, has been designated a variant of interest by the World Health Organization. Mu, or B.1.621, was first identified in Colombia and cases have been recorded in South America and Europe. The WHO’s…

FRANCE: France aims to administer a third shot of a COVID-19 vaccine to some 18 million people by early 2022, a health ministry official said on Tuesday. Last week, France’s top health advisory body (HAS) recommended a booster…

BRAZIL: Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19. A study…

US: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new research has shown that a high amount of coronavirus in the lungs is a major contributor to death in Coronavirus patients. The researchers at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine,…

US: Prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, neither guarantees a high level of antibodies nor immunity to re-infection as thought earlier, finds a study emphasising the need to get vaccinated against the deadly…

SINGAPORE: Singapore has fully vaccinated 80% of its population against the coronavirus, the health minister said on Sunday. This makes it the world’s most inoculated country, as several parts of the world struggle to control the…

SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January. Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a…