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UNITED NATIONS: World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley on Tuesday warned of a hunger pandemic across the world in tandem with the...

SINGAPORE: Singapore will extend its COVID-19 "circuit breaker" period by four weeks to June 1 to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Prime...

WASHINGTON: The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 800,000 on Tuesday with deaths surpassing 43,000, while Americans are increasingly...

Muscat: The British Minister of Health Matt Hancock has announced on Tuesday that clinical trials of a vaccine for COVID-19 will begin from Thursday. The...

Rio De Janeiro: Too high a dose of the antimalarial agent chloroquine can cause severe cardiac arrhythmia in certain patients. Tests on COVID-19 patients in...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that although the country is managing to slow the spread of COVID-19, its peak is yet to...

ROME: Italy might gradually reopen its economy from the strict terms of its six-week-long national coronavirus lockdown starting from May 4, Prime Minister...

NEW DELHI: The COVID-19 has hit people at two of the main buildings belonging to the government of India, President's House and the Parliament, official...

GENEVA/BERLIN: As countries in Europe started to relax their confinement measures with caution, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...

LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney Co., is now suspending salary payments to over 100,000 employees, mostly cast members in its theme parks, as the COVID-19 pandemic...