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TEHRAN : The World Health Organization is planning to send a team to China to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in the hope of being better able to fight the spread of coronavirus. “Knowing the source of the virus is very, very important,” the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom …

WASHINGTON: A United States court has upheld a verdict that talcum powder sold by Johnson & Johnson caused ovarian cancer and ordered the pharmaceutical giant to pay $2.1 billion in damages. The decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals cut by more than half the $4.4bn a jury had awarded …

Asymptomatic coronavirus patients continue to die in their homes in Sindh, with 182 people having mild symptoms or none at all, who were advised to self-isolate at home, have passed away in the past three months before being able to reach a health facility. “These patients had been asked to …

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said Thursday that a few hundred million COVID-19 vaccine doses could be produced by the end of the year — and be targeted at those most vulnerable to the virus. The UN health agency said it was working on that assumption, with a view to …

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged restraint by US authorities toward protesters and called for probe into allegations of police violence, his spokesperson said Monday. Protests should remain peaceful, while “authorities must show restraint in responding to demonstrators in US as in any other country in the world,” Guterres …

TEHRAN:The Deputy Commander of IRGC Ground Force for Coordination Brigadier General Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian on Fri. revealed the launch of two new Polymerase Chain Reaction [PCR] centers in the country in the fight against the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Before the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, …

The WHO says it has “has implemented a temporary pause… while the safety data is reviewed”. — AFP The WHO suspended trials of the drug that Donald Trump has promoted as a coronavirus defence, fuelling concerns about the US president’s handling of the pandemic that has killed nearly 100,000 Americans. Trump has …

The last signed letter allegedly written by Adolf Hitler from his besieged bunker, along with other World War II documents are going up for auction in the so-called ‘Never Surrender’ event organized by Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland. “(The auction) includes Adolf Hitler’s last letter written from the …

It’s nearly the last week of Ramazan already. Is it just us or did time fly? While some of us are reaping the benefits of this holy month, many have not been taking it too well and with three weeks in, it’s starting to show.Poor eating habits see a rise …

GENEVA: The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organisation warned Wednesday. As some countries around the world begin gradually easing lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading, the …