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KABUL:  The Trump administration is slashing $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan with threatening further reduction in all forms of cooperation after the two feuding Afghan leaders, (President Ashraf Ghani, and self-proclaimed President Abdullah Abdullah) rejected to form a new inclusive government. “The United States is proud of our partnership with the Islamic Republic of […]

  Some 130 tons of protective gear is unloaded from an Austrian Airline airplane that arrived from China at Vienna Airport in Schwechat, Lower Austria on Monday. The cargo is bound for Italy. GEORG HOCHMUTH/AFP BRUSSELS－China, emerging from the most difficult period in its own battle against the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, has been standing with […]

Centre has put a ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine with an immediate effect. The agent is used for the prevention and treatment of certain types of malaria.(Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)  In a bid to break the cycle of Covid-19 infection in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for a 21-day long nationwide lockdown to fight coronavirus. Before […]

French health authorities reported 186 new deaths from coronavirus on Monday, taking the total to 860 in a sharp 28 percent toll rise as Prime Minister Édouard Philippe warned the country’s strict lockdown measures could tighten and last weeks. As France entered the second week of a nationwide lockdown, the toal number of confirmed coronavirus cases also increased Monday […]

 The coronavirus pandemic was accelerating as the latest figures showed more than 350,000 were infected by the virus with cases in almost every country in the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, said countries needed to take the offensive in combating the pandemic, including testing and contact tracing. […]

it Coronavirus: Italian government overwhelmed by response to its appeal for doctors. The Italian government has been left astounded by the response to its “extraordinary appeal” to create a task force of 300 doctors to help its embattled hospitals cope with the Coronavirus in the north of the country, reports Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. A staggering 7,923 […]

People walk along a nearly empty Istiklal Avenue amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Istanbul, March 17, 2020. (AFP Photo)  More than 1 billion people have been asked to stay home in more than 50 countries and territories around the world as governments battle the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe. Some countries imposed mandatory lockdown measures, […]

Doctor Hu Ming gestures “OK”after completing a surgery on a patient of COVID-19 in critical condition at a hospital in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, March 21, 2020. Doctors from Beijing, Jiangsu and other four different provinces have successfully completed the three-hour surgery on a male patient of COVID-19 in critical condition with joint efforts. […]

French members of Parliament take part in a debate about the state of health emergency bill at the National Assembly on March 21, 2020, in Paris   –   Copyright  LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP The French Assemblée National approved on Saturday a legal text that would introduce a “state of health emergency” in France during the coronavirus pandemic. The law would give […]