WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (Reuters): The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the body's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald T
NAJAF, Iraq, June 1 (Reuters): Iraqi paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim cut his teeth treating fellow Shi'ite Muslim militiamen in the war against Islamic State. Now, he buries COVID-19 victims - an exhausting t
ROME, June 1 (Reuters): The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.
"In reality, the virus clinically no longer exis
SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters): The Singapore government is racing to create additional housing for about 60,000 migrant workers by the end of this year, as it seeks to reduce the density in dormitories which
SEOUL, June 1 (Reuters): A self-driving robot equipped with cameras and an LED screen greets visitors at the lobby in the headquarters of South Korea's largest mobile operator, checking their temperatu
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Coronavirus is threatening to undo recent gains made toward gender equality as millions of women and girls are predicted to have unwanted pregnancies and fall in
NEW YORK, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Economic fallout from COVID-19 is hitting young workers so hard they risk becoming a "lockdown generation" scarred for life, with women the worst hi
SEATTLE, MAY 28 (IANS): Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has rebutted claims about Covid-19 health concerns at the warehouses, saying the ecommerce giant has taken this seriously from the very beginning.
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NEW DELHI, MAY 28 (IANS): Boeing has announced it is laying off nearly 7,000 employees in its US operations as it starts involuntary layoffs.
In a letter to the employees, Boeing President and CEO
SEOUL, May 28 (Reuters): South Korea reported 79 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the most in nearly eight weeks, triggering the return of tougher social distancing curbs amid the spectre of a second wav
DHAKA, May 28 (Reuters): Five coronavirus patients died in a hospital fire in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday, a fire service official said.
It was not immediately clear what caused
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters): Britain's government faced questions over how closely people would abide by its new COVID-19 test and trace service on Thursday, as a row persisted over the prime minister'
LONDON, May 27 (Reuters): Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britain on Wednesday to move on from what he described as a "very, very frustrating episode" when his closest adviser provoked outrage
BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters): German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday welcomed the European Commission's plan for a 750 billion-euro ($824.55 billion) Recovery Fund and said he was confident membe
LUCKNOW, May 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): A 15-year-old girl who won praise for carrying her injured father hundreds of miles across India by bike said on Wednesday she never thought of giving up
NEW DELHI, MAY (IANS): Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde, here on Wednesday, asked the Centre to consider free treatment for Covid-19 patients and identify hospitals where minimum or free of cost treatment coul
NEW DELHI, MAY 27 (IANS): One of the pioneers to initiate hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) therapy in COVID-19 positive patients, Dr Sudhir Bhandari, Principal and Controller, Sawai Madho Singh Medical College Hospital
VARANASI/NEW DELHI, MAY 27 (IANS): Two passengers of a Shramik special train from Mumbai were found dead when it reached Manduadih railway station in Varanasi on Wednesday morning.
The bodies were
SINGAPORE, May 27 (Reuters): A taxi driver was jailed for four months in Singapore on Wednesday over a Facebook post in which he falsely claimed food outlets would close and urged people to stock up due to
BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters): The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a plan to borrow on the market and then disburse to EU countries 750 billion euros in grants and loans to help them recover from th