Category: World

WASHINGTON – US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was 94.5 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt. Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their vaccine […]

LONDON – If coronavirus vaccinations are rolled out widely, life could return to “normal” by next winter, one of the scientists behind the front-running coronavirus vaccine told British television on Sunday. Ugur Sahin, the Turkish co-founder of German firm BioN, told the BBC s The Andrew Marr Show that “this winter will be hard” without any […]

GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization hailed the rapid progress towards a Covid-19 vaccine but insisted Friday that every country must reap the benefits. “A vaccine will be a vital tool for controlling the pandemic, and we re encouraged by the preliminary results of clinical trials released this week,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, […]

WASHINGTON — Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.” President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime […]

A strong earthquake struck on Friday between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos, collapsing several buildings in Turkeys western Izmir province and leaving at least four people dead. Dozens more were injured, while some damage to buildings and the road network, and four light injuries were also reported on Samos. Turkey’s Health […]

The Lancet has become the latest science journal to urge Americans to vote for change in next week’s presidential election, publishing a scathing editorial on Friday that described the United States pandemic response under Donald Trump as “disastrous”. The medical journal did not explicitly back Democratic challenger Joe Biden in its commentary, focusing instead on the issues it […]

The Tunisian man suspected of killing three people in the French city of Nice spoke to his family on a video call outside the church hours before the attack, but he had shown no sign that he planned any violence, relatives said on Friday. Brahim Aouissaoui had gone to the Notre-Dame church soon after arriving in Nice […]

Thousands of protesters in Pakistan poured out of prayer services to join anti-France protests on Friday, as the French president’s vow not to “give up cartoons” depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) continues to roil the Muslim world. An estimated 2,000 worshippers celebrating Eid-i-Miladun Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet (PBUH), took to the streets in […]

Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past two months. US President Donald Trump, seeking re-election on Nov 3, sealed the agreement in a phone call on Friday […]