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  • The waiting area at Thembisa Hospital,in South Africa where COVID-19 admissions have fallen sharply recently.
    South African medics celebrate after drop in COVID cases
    SOUTH AFRICA: After a year battling coronavirus, exhausted health workers in South Africa are celebrating a drop in cases but dread another wave of infections -- a scenario that could strike just...
  • Karjiya Baqtar who has worked with other Iraqi Christians for two months on the shawl to be presented to Pope Francis on his visit to the town is seen with Iraqi priest Ammar Yaqo who designed the fabric.
    Handmade shawl for Pope during historic Iraq visit
    IRAQ: Pulling golden thread with her frail fingers, elderly Christian Karjiya Baqtar has embroidered a precious prayer shawl to gift the most cherished visitor to her Iraqi hometown -- Pope Francis....
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's physician assistant and cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux, posing for a photo at a SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California.
    Youngest American to go into space is a cancer survivor
    US: By the end of the year, Hayley Arceneaux will be the youngest American in space and one of the first tourists to enter orbit unaccompanied by professional astronauts.It is a feat made all the...
  • Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat from New York wears a protective mask while arriving to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the debate.
    US Senate debates COVID relief package
    US: The US Senate, whipsawed over the $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package, finally took up the sweeping bill Thursday, with multiple hurdles ahead as President Joe Biden seeks to push his top...
  • Myanmar ‘in the dark’
    MYANMAR: Electricity supply was cut across many areas of Myanmar on Friday because of a “system breakdown”, according to multiple government agencies.People started posting on Twitter and Facebook...
  • Israel vaccinates Palestinians with work papers
    ISRAEL: Israel began giving coronavirus vaccinations to Palestinians in the West Bank with permits to work in Jewish settlements in the occupied territory and inside Israel.“The vaccination campaign...
  • Pharmacist Antoun Houranieh unlocks a refrigerator and takes out a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID -19 Janssen Vaccine to be used for the day's at home vaccinations at the US Department of Veterans Affairs' VA Boston Healthcare System's Jamaica Plain Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday. - AFP
    US new daily COVID cases at five-month low
    Pharmacist Antoun Houranieh unlocks a refrigerator and takes out a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID -19 Janssen Vaccine to be used for the day's at home vaccinations at the US Department of...
  • Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen gestures as he receives the AstraZeneca vaccine during a vaccination campaign against the COVID-19 coronavirus at Calmette hospital in Phnom Penh on Thursday. - AFP
    Countries to fast-track adapted COVID vaccines
    UK: Modified vaccines designed to protect against emerging coronavirus variants will get fast-track approval under a pact announced on Thursday by medicines regulators in Britain and four other...
  • Ireland’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn explains COVID-19.
    Ireland investigates stillbirths linked to COVID-19 pandemic
    IRELAND: Irish health officials are investigating four stillbirths potentially linked to COVID-19, the Republic’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn said on Thursday.Glynn said officials have...
  • Cuba's Finlay vaccine institute has announced that it will launch phase 3 trials of the Soberana 2 coronavirus vaccine.
    Cuban-developed vaccine enters Phase III trial
    CUBA: A Cuban-developed coronavirus candidate vaccine entered into Phase III trials Thursday, the first shot developed by a Latin American country to get this far, the Government said.The recruitment...
  • Children run past al mural warning people about the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kibera settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
    COVID-19 kills fewer African women than men - WHO study
    SOUTH AFRICA: Women in Africa are less likely to die from COVID-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access to reproductive services since the pandemic...
  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
    Bolsonaro tells Brazilians: ‘Stop whining’ about COVID
    BRAZIL: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday urged Brazilians to “stop whining” about COVID-19 and renewed his attacks on stay-at-home measures to contain the pandemic, amid a surge of...
  • New Zealand tsunami warnings lifted
    Three powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of New Zealand on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings that were later stood down. Evacuation orders were issued for residents living in coastal...
  • Europe to assess Sputnik jab
    The European Medicines Agency said Thursday it will start assessing the Russian coronavirus jab, Sputnik V, as the bloc looks to speed up its vaccination program.“EMA will assess Sputnik V’s...
  • Convalescent plasma trial discontinued in USA
    The US Government discontinued a research trial of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 saying the blood product from recovered patients doesn't prevent at-risk people visiting emergency rooms from...