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MOSCOW: Russia has begun production of the first batch of vaccines against COVID-19, its health ministry said in a statement released Saturday.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Arif Alvi said on Friday that Pakistan has overcome several challenges in the recent years including defeating terrorism and...

NEW YORK: Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 21 million on Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins...

Amazon.com Inc has expanded its offerings into India, one of its biggest markets. The company has entered the online pharmacy delivery space, by launching...

NEW YORK: The United States was "underprepared" for "the greatest public health crisis that hit this nation in a century," a senior U.S. health official has...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand reported seven new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, the New Zealand Ministry of Health said in a statement.

New York/ Geneva: The latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) revealed that 43 per cent of schools around the world lacked access...

Abu Dhabi: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred on Thursday to reports on a peace agreement achieved between his country and the United Arab...

Abu Dhabi: The world’s first Phase III trials of an inactivated vaccine for COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates have reached the 15,000 volunteers target...

Emergency services have been deployed to a major train derailment near the Scottish town of Stonehaven, 15 km (9 miles) south of the city of...