WHO Monitoring New Coronavirus Variant Named “Mu”
The WHO said the variant has mutations that indicate a risk of resistance to vaccines and stressed that further studies were needed to better understand it. The World Health Organization ...
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has received more than five million shares in the technology giant, as he marks ten years in the job. A company filing with the US ...
WHO head cheers Olympic ‘hope’ as COVID-19 cases in athletes’ village rise
Olympic athletes in Tokyo continue to test positive for COVID-19 by the dozens, the United States gymnastics team left the Olympic Village for a hotel in an attempt to avoid ...
Philippines President Duterte thanks Sri Lanka for assisting OFWs amid pandemic
President Rodrigo Duterte thanked the government of Sri Lanka for its assistance to overseas Filipino workers - particularly in their repatriation - amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement on ...
Fully vaccinated people to wear masks as Delta variant cases surge – WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging fully vaccinated people to continue wearing face masks and follow physical distancing measures as the highly infectious Delta variant spurs new COVID-19 outbreaks ...
Study: Mix-and-match approach boosts immune response of AstraZeneca shot
A mixed schedule of vaccines where a shot of Pfizer's (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine is given four weeks after an AstraZeneca (AZN.L) shot will produce better immune responses than giving another dose of AstraZeneca, an ...
Study: AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines effective against Delta COVID-19 variants
Variants may cause few breakthrough infections in vaccinated Researchers find no evidence of widespread virus escape Past infection with B117/Alpha confers broad protection COVID-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and ...
WHO official says Delta COVID variant becoming globally dominant
The Delta variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant of the disease, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said on Friday. Soumya Swaminathan also ...
Biden and Putin agree to steps on cybersecurity, arms control
Biden asks Putin about pipeline ransomware attacks Three-hour talks described as professional rather than friendly U.S., Russia to send their ambassadors back to their capitals First U.S.-Russian summit since Biden ...
President Joe Biden nominates Julie Chung as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka
The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden intends to nominate Julie Chung to represent the United States in Sri Lanka. Julie Jiyoon Chung, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and ...
Bahrain temporarily bans new work permits for people from red list countries
Bahrain has temporarily halted the issuance of new work permits for people from ‘red list’ countries. The directive is applicable to those outside the kingdom. The Labour Market Regulatory Authority ...
Israel Swears In New Coalition, Ending Netanyahu’s 12 years Long Rule
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's parliament on Sunday narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the ...
World leaders pledgers poorer countries will receive one billion doses of the Covid vaccination – PM Boris Johnson
Leaders of the major industrial nations have pledged one billion Covid vaccine doses to poor countries as a "big step towards vaccinating the world", Boris Johnson has said. At the ...
South African woman gives birth to 10 babies in Pretoria breaking a world record
A South African mother has given birth to ten babies at the same time, breaking a world record set just last month. According to media reports, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, a ...
Auckland ranked the most liveable city as pandemic shifts list – World’s most liveable Index
Auckland in New Zealand has been named the world's most liveable city, in an annual ranking that has been shifted by the coronavirus pandemic. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey ...
U.N. Security Council backs Antonio Guterres for the second term
The United Nations Security Council backed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday for a second term, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for another five years starting Jan. 1, ...
Maldives FM Abdulla Shahid elected UN General Assembly president
The Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid has elected as the next president of the United Nations General Assembly. Shahid promised to fight for equal access to coronavirus vaccines, a stronger and ...
US President Joe Biden announces global COVID-19 vaccine sharing plan including Sri Lanka
President Joe Biden plans to allocate 75% of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the U.N.-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, the White House announced Thursday. The White House unveiled the allocation ...
Israel opposition parties agree to form new unity government
Israeli opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure as prime minister. Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid ...
China allows couples to have three children
China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy ...
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