The number of new Covid-19 cases worldwide has reached a record high at 212,326 cases in the last 24 hours, according to a situation report from the World Health Organization.
The report says there have been more than 10.9 million confirmed Covid-19 (...)
Washington's envoy to Afghanistan stressed Saturday the economic benefits of the peace deal with the Taliban, forging ahead with an agreement that has run into new political obstacles both in the U.S. and regionally.
Zalmay Khalilzad was wrapping up (...)
Egypt has condemned attacks carried out on Friday by the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen on Saudi territories.
The Houthi movement had launched four drones loaded with explosives towards Saudi Arabia, but the drones were intercepted and (...)
New virus in pigs has risk for humans
A new "G4" strain of the H1N1 flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential "pandemic virus", a study published by the U.S. (...)
For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps (...)
The Ministry of Health announced, on Sunday, the closure of an isolation facility for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, identified as the Negelah isolation hospital.
The closure comes following the ministry's opening of quarantine departments (...)
The United Arab Emirates will not receive passengers coming from Pakistan as of June 29 until a special COVID-19 lab is set up to test them, the civil aviation authority said on Sunday.
The decision also applies to transit flights originating from (...)
Pakistan is grounding 262 airline pilots suspected of dodging their exams following an inquiry into pilots' qualifications, the aviation minister said on Friday.
The inquiry was prompted by the preliminary report on an airliner crash in Karachi last (...)
Emirates, one of the world's biggest long-haul airlines, has suspended flights from Pakistan after passengers tested positive for coronavirus in Hong Kong, it said on Wednesday.
The Dubai state carrier, which is operating limited services due to the (...)
Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and scientists and drug-makers around the world are frantically testing existing antiviral drugs to curb the spread of the respiratory virus until a vaccine is found.
Two of the most talked-about drugs are the (...)
At a time when the world is facing an unprecedented pandemic and every effort is being made to contain it, the last news one wishes to hear is the resurfacing of feuds between nations that were thought to have been buried decades ago such as the (...)
Egypt welcomed, on Tuesday, the announcement by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that the country's legitimate government and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) have agreed on a comprehensive ceasefire.
The two rivals also responded (...)
Egyptian fintech platform MoneyFellows has secured $4 million in Series A investment from venture capital companies Partech and Sawari Ventures, Ahram Online reported on Monday.
MoneyFellows is a financial enabler that digitises money circles (known (...)
The world saw the largest daily increases yet in coronavirus cases, with infections soaring in India's rural villages after migrant workers fled major cities.
India's coronavirus caseload climbed by nearly 15,000 as of Monday to 425,282, with more (...)
Indian troops backed by artillery and long-range guns fired on villages along the border in the Pakistani-administered side of the Kashmir region, killing a 13-year-old-girl and wounding her mother and brother, local officials and Pakistan's (...)
Protests against racism triggered by the death of African American George Floyd have inspired art around the world, from murals in Syria and Pakistan to graffiti in Nairobi.
At the Berlin Wall, a large portrait of Floyd is seen alongside yellow (...)
The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are urging that governments and others unite in developing a ``people's vaccine'' to protect everyone against the coronavirus.
Their appeal came ahead of a vaccine summit (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has always been keen on having the presence of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the former Minister of Defence, at most if not all national celebrations. So, what does having the Field Marshal sitting on the (...)
The Paris Club of creditor nations have so far waived $1.1 billion euros of debt servicing payments due this year from some of the worlds poorest countries under a G20 deal and more relief is on the way soon, the group said on Wednesday.
The Paris (...)
Pakistan has approved $7.2 billion railway line upgradation project between Peshawar and Karachi under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, WAM (Emirates News Agency) reported on Sunday.
The approval of the project to upgrade the 1,872 (...)
Egypt has on Friday signed up the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), a global initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight coronavirus accessible to all.
The (...)
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic keeps ravaging across the globe, infecting over 5.6 million people and claiming the lives of over 350,000 so far, questions about each country's response to the pandemic has been raised.
US President (...)
Muslims around the world on Sunday began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive holiday marking the end of the fastiedinang month of Ramadan, with millions under strict stay-at-home orders and many fearing renewed coronavirus outbreaks.
The (...)
A total of 97 people have been killed following the Friday crash of a Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying 99, Reuters reported, citing provincial health authorities.
The crash occurred near the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, (...)
The death toll from Friday's passenger aircraft crash in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi has been confirmed at 97 with two survivors, while no fatalities were reported from the dense residential neighbourhood where the aircraft crash-landed, (...)
