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GENEVA: In the year since the World Health Organization first described the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic, it has faced towering criticism...

PARIS: Some 12 million women may have lost access to contraception due to pandemic health disruptions, the United Nations sexual and reprodu...

TEGUCIGALPA: Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez (pix) on Wednesday denied allegations made by a US prosecutor that he helped smuggle...

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has decided to halt its efforts to build a trans-Pacific undersea cable that would have connected California and Hon...

PORT MORESBY: Papua New Guinea’s first prime minister Sir Michael Somare’s coffin laid in state at a special sitting of parliament Thursday...

TAIPEI: A US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the American navy said Thursday, a day after a top US commander warned of the threat...

BRASÍLIA: The world on Thursday marked one year since the coronavirus threat was declared a pandemic, with vaccinations offering hope but mu...

STUTTGART: At first glance, the affluent southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg with its booming automobile industry might look lik...

KHAN YUNIS: As Palestinians ready for their first elections in 15 years, two powerful players loom large from afar.One is a royal adviser li...

HISANOHAMA: Japan on Thursday marks 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country’s living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly...

BEIJING: Daily life in China follows a rhythm of digital check-ins, with the QR code — at offices, malls and transport hubs — an integral de...

NEW YORK: New York governor Andrew Cuomo (pix), already under investigation for sexual harassment, is facing a new, more serious allegation...

YANGON: Security forces sprayed gunfire during pre-dawn patrols of Myanmar’s biggest city on Thursday, as the UN condemned the growing viole...

GENEVA: The Covid-19 pandemic has not only had devastating effects on humans, it has also heavily impacted efforts to safeguard natural ecos...

SHIFTING between the genres of soulful ballad and pop-rock alternative as a solo artiste and as the vocalist for her band iamNEETA, singer N...

HENNA has always been associated with happiness and good luck. It is common to see henna designs on the hands of brides at Indian weddings....

MALAYSIAN MILLENNIAL VOICES, published by Maya Press, is a book of poems that captures the voices of the young and the restless. It highligh...

OPPORTUNITIES to participate in sports were scarce, let alone play football, when Keshika Subbarao was a young girl, despite her keen intere...

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will announce plans Wednesday to acquire an extra 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine,...

BRUSSELS: The majority of large economies’ planned Covid-19 recovery spending is not green, putting the world on track to plough billions of...

ATHENS: More than 1,000 students kept up protests on Wednesday in the Greek capital after evening clashes with security forces over bitter a...

The European Commission said on Wednesday it has reached a deal with drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech for the supply of an additional four mil...

LISBON: Portugal’s health authority said on Wednesday it had approved the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for those aged over 65 as ne...

LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected on Wednesday an assertion by European Council President Charles Michel that Britain had banned...

MADRID: The coronavirus lockdown has led to a plunge in the number of monthly births in Spain to the lowest recorded level ever, preliminary...