GLASGOW: Scottish police on Friday (Jun 26) shot dead the suspect in a multiple stabbing at a Glasgow hotel housing asylum seekers that wounded six people, including an officer. Police Scotland said the incident at the Park Inn hotel in the city’s centre was not being treated as terror-related and […]
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GENEVA: The World Health Organization said on Friday (Jun 26) that a global initiative to speed up the development and production of COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments will require more than US$30 billion over the next year. Providing details of the so-called ACT accelerator, launched in April and aimed at […]
SINGAPORE: Cybercrime cases jumped by more than 50 per cent last year, accounting for more than a quarter of all crimes in committed in the country, said the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) in its annual report published on Friday (Jun 26). There were 9,430 cybercrime cases reported last […]
WELLINGTON: A magnitude-5.9 earthquake struck near Milford Sound in the southwest of New Zealand’s South Island on Thursday (Jun 25), government seismic monitor Geonet said. Thousands of people in the area reported on Geonet to have felt the earthquake, which was very shallow at a depth of 5km, but there […]
GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic has yet to peak in the Americas, the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday (Jun 24), as it said global infections were likely to hit 10 million within a week. The WHO said the length and height of peaks would be determined by government actions, without […]
BASRA, Iraq: In a hospital ward in Iraq, doctor Ali Salam Abdullah and a smiling patient hold up a large blood bag full of the yellow liquid that he hopes will help turn the corner in cutting the country’s coronavirus death rate. The liquid is plasma from a recently recovered […]
LONDON: A second coronavirus wave is a real risk for the United Kingdom and local flare-ups are likely, major health bodies said on Wednesday (Jun 24), in one of the strongest warnings yet to Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he eases lockdown to help the economy. The United Kingdom has […]
WASHINGTON: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Monday (Jun 22) the trade deal with China is “over,” and he linked the breakdown in part to Washington’s anger over Beijing’s not sounding the alarm earlier about the COVID-19 outbreak. “It’s over,” Navarro told Fox News in an interview when […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization called on Monday (Jun 22) for a rapid increase in production of dexamethasone, a cheap steroid which has been shown to reduce deaths in critically ill coronavirus patients. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said demand had already surged after a British trial of the drug […]
DUBAI: The World Health Organization sent out a fresh warning on Monday (Jun 22) over the dangers of the new coronavirus even as France returned to life by staging an annual music festival and sending millions of children back to school. In spite of numerous European countries further easing their […]