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UK: COVID-19 symptoms like fatigue and shortness of breath still trouble many patients a year after their hospitalisation for the coronavirus disease, according to a new Chinese study. The study published in the British medical journal…

US: The United States is seeing a record increase in the number of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 in recent weeks, but the worst-affected state seems to be Florida, where more people are being admitted to the hospital and…

AFGHANISTAN: Even for a city as used to violent death as Kabul, the scenes after the blasts tore through crowds thronging outside the airport in hope of evacuation were apocalyptic. For one man, a former employee of an…

US, AFGHANISTAN: The US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed scores of civilians and 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport.…

AFGHANISTAN: At least 250,000 Afghans who may be eligible for expedited American visas remain in Afghanistan, far too many for American forces to rescue before their deadline to leave next week, new estimates suggest. Even if…

AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban official said on Friday that at least 28 Taliban members were among the people killed in explosions overnight outside the airport in Kabul. “We have lost more people than the Americans,” the official, who…

US, AFGHANISTAN: Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport on Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban…

China has criticised the “politicisation” by the United States of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding a US military laboratory be investigated, shortly before the release of a US intelligence community report on…

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is associated with an increased risk of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, a large new study from Israel confirms. But the side effect remains rare, and COVID-19 is more likely to…

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bolsters the argument that unvaccinated individuals are at a much higher risk of experiencing the worst outcomes of COVID-19 than vaccinated individuals.…