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US: Wealthy countries face mounting pressure to divert COVID vaccine supplies to lower-income regions, with a new analysis showing they’ll likely have about 1.2 billion extra doses available by the end of the year. The U.S.,…

AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan Policewoman was shot dead by the Taliban in front of her family in Ghor province, an Afghan journalist informed in a tweet. Nigara was 6 months pregnant and was shot in front of her husband and children,…

Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen was under police surveillance when he attacked a group of people at an Auckland grocery on Friday. Authorities knew he was a threat, but New Zealand’s laws could not keep him in jail. They were…

Kabul’s airport reopened with domestic flights taking off Saturday after a team of engineers from Qatar repaired parts of the airport’s air traffic control system last week, according to Muhammad Salim Saad, the Taliban commander in…

Taliban officials have broken up a demonstration by dozens of women in Kabul demanding rights following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. The group say the Taliban targeted them with tear gas and pepper spray as they tried to…

Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have found that people who become very ill with COVID-19 often experience kidney problems, not just the lung impairments that are the hallmark of the illness. Now, a large study…

It’s basically over already. It will end this October. Or maybe it won’t be over till next spring, or late next year, or two or three years down the road. From the most respected epidemiologists to public health experts who have…

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has vowed to toughen anti-terror laws following Friday's knife attack in Auckland by a man who was under police surveillance. "We must be willing to make the changes that we know may not necessarily…

AUSTRALIA: Australia has reported another record number of 1,477 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday as the country continued to battle the raging third wave of the infections. The new cases took the overall infection tally to 56,212,…

UK: The British Government unveiled plans yesterday to make pet abduction a new criminal offence, in response to a pandemic-fuelled spike in dognapping and other animal thefts. The offence is among the recommendations of a task…