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New Zealand has become the latest country to abandon a zero Covid strategy, with the virus proving much harder to stop now the highly infectious delta variant is dominant. After adopting one of the world’s strictest approaches to…

Millions of teenage girls across Afghanistan are anxiously waiting to return to the classroom, as high schools continue to remain closed, raising fears about the future of female education under Taliban rule. The country’s new…

World leaders thanked India for its help and support in combating the coronavirus pandemic through "early and meaningful" shipments of COVID-19 vaccine doses, as they addressed the high-level UN General Assembly session this year.…

Facebook Inc's app and its photo-sharing app Instagram were down for thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues…

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand acknowledged an end on Monday to the country’s strategy of eliminating the coronavirus, announcing that restrictions would be gradually lifted in Auckland, the country’s largest city.…

TOKYO-Fumio Kishida, President of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was elected as the nation’s 100th Prime Minister on Monday amid news that he has decided to dissolve the Lower House later this month to hold General Elections…

US: Some 35 current and former leaders are featured in the documents analyzed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. More than a dozen Heads of State and Government have hidden millions in offshore tax…

AFGHANISTAN: At least five civilians were killed in a bomb blast outside a Kabul mosque Sunday, a Taliban official said. It was the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since U.S. forces left at the end of August. There was no…

OMAN: At least nine people were killed in Oman and Iran on Sunday as tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines, authorities said. In Oman, two people died in a landslide and a child in flash flooding, officials…

UK: A global flu outbreak continues to be a “serious and real” risk to human beings more than the ongoing COVID-19, according to infectious disease experts. According to Professor Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for…