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Saudi jets have targeted a number of areas across Yemen overnight despite a so-called ceasefire that the Riyadh-led coalition of aggressors has announced itself. Yemen’s al-Masirah television network said the warplanes bombarded Wadi Dhahr area of the Hamdan district in the capital, Sana’a, as well as an area close to …

The Iranian health ministry announced on Wednesday that 94 coronavirus patients have lost their lives due to coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, the second consecutive day that the toll has been a double-digit number. “1,512 more patients infected with COVID-19 virus have been identified in the country since yesterday …

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed regret over the US president’s decision to cut funding to the body at the time of the new coronavirus pandemic. “This is a time for all of us to be united in our common struggle against a common threat,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

TEHRAN:The Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said that IRGC has developed a homegrown device capable of detecting the coronavirus without any need for blood tests. Speaking on the sidelines of the unveiling ceremony of the coronavirus detection device on Wed., Salami said, …

TEHRAN: Iranian Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that the number of coronavirus cases has hit 76,389 in Iran, while 49,933 have recovered from the disease. Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said that unfortunately, 94 coronavirus patients lost their lives in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll …

TEHRAN:  As Iran is fighting to contain the deadly coronavirus pandemic, China’s ambassador to Tehran says “Iran is among the countries enjoying fine public health system in the Middle East.” In an interview with the Tehran Times, Ambassador Chang Hua also says the collaboration between medical experts from Iran and …

TEHRAN: Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kazemi had blamed the United States for failing to re-establish a governmental structure after the toppling of Saddam’s regime. “The problems and crises that we are now facing are the result of a wrong set-up for the political process in post-2003,” Almaalomah quoted him as …

Across the Middle East, the coronavirus is stirring up both upheavals and more subtle changes from Tel Aviv to Riyadh, little reported and when covered little understood in the Western media. In Israel, the virus has enabled that master political magician Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pull off yet another …

United States President Donald Trump has said he would halt funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump, at a White House news conference on Tuesday , said the WHO had “failed in its basic duty and it must be held accountable.” He …

ISLAMABAD: Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj General Babar Iftikhar on Tuesday termed India’s insinuation about infiltration and ceasefire violations (CFVs) “baseless” and said they were designed to divert global and domestic attention from the “unending fiasco”.In a post on Twitter, the DG ISPR also termed allegations that …