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UN: Address mental health needs amid pandemic
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging governments, civil society and health authorities to urgently address mental health...
Impossible to predict when COVID-19 pandemic will be controlled: WHO
Geneva: The World Health Organization's emergencies chief said it's possible the new coronavirus may be here to stay, warning it's...
UNSC condemns ‘cowardly’ Afghan attacks
United Nations: The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the "cowardly" terrorist attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar in Afghanistan that...
Death toll from attack on Kabul maternity clinic rises to 24
Kabul: Afghan officials on Wednesday raised the death from the militant attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul the previous...
Scientists decode how COVID-19 disease kills people
Beijing: COVID-19 mostly kills through an overreaction of the immune system, whose function is precisely to fight infections, say scientists...
Wear a mask? Even with 20,000 dead, some New Yorkers don’t
New York: Eric Leventhal felt a sneeze coming and panicked. The Brooklynite left his cloth face mask at home for...
Saudi Arabia: Lockdown in days after Ramzan
Riyadh:Saudi Arabia says it will go into a full lockdown during the days of celebration that follow the Muslim holy...
UN chief strongly condemns ‘horrific’ attack on maternity hospital in Afghanistan
United Nations: UN chief Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the "horrific" attack on a maternity hospital in Afghanistan that killed...
Close relative of novel coronavirus suggests it evolved naturally, not in lab
Beijing: Scientists have identified a close relative of SARS-CoV-2 in bats which offers more evidence that the virus behind the...
New AI tool to predict COVID-19 without testing: Study
London: Researchers have developed an AI tool to predict whether someone is likely to have COVID-19 based on their symptoms...