International

Nearly two-thirds of global drowning deaths occur in the Asia Pacific, said a World Health Organization (WHO) report. WHO on Friday launched its first Regional Status Report on Drowning Prevention in the South-East Asia and Western…

US: The top US military leader on Wednesday expressed doubts if a Taliban victory is imminent in Afghanistan, contrary to a reported intelligence assessment. “There are a range of possible outcomes in Afghanistan,” General Mark…

PERU: Nine people, including public hospital staff, have been arrested in Peru accused of "selling" intensive care beds to desperate coronavirus patients for thousands of dollars apiece, police and prosecutors said Thursday. The…

FRANCE: Hungary, Israel and Algeria on Thursday probed allegations that Israeli-made spyware was used on journalists, rights activists and 14 Heads of State, as French President Emmanuel Macron ordered tighter security and changed his…

BELGIUM: The European Union on Thursday said that over 200 million Europeans have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), which is more than 50% of the adult population. However, the EU was still short of the…

AUSTRALIA: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday apologised to his country for the slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccination campaign, even as cases due to the virus outbreak continue to see a spike amid lockdown.…

CHINA: China hopes that the World Health Organization (WHO) will treat the novel coronavirus origin-tracing work as a scientific issue, get rid of political interference, and actively and prudently promote tracing work continuously in…

SWITZERLAND: The highly contagious Delta variant of Sars-Cov-2 has been identified in 124 countries and is expected to become the dominant strain worldwide within months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The rapid…

China has rejected the next stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) plan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO wants to audit laboratories in the area the virus was first identified. But Zeng Yixin,…

INDONESIA: Indonesia, Iran and France were suffering alarming surges in COVID-19 cases yesterday, as Governments raced to vaccinate populations in a bid to outpace the highly-contagious Delta variant wreaking havoc across the globe.…