A Houthi supporter looks on as he carries a weapon during a gathering in Sanaa, Yemen on April 2, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
DUBAI/RIYADH, April 9 (Reuters): The Saudi-led coalition fighting Y
Parked school buses are seen after California issued a stay-at-home order as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, US on April 3, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
Judy Boifuana hikes in the jungle near Igwa village on the island of Malaita, Solomon Islands on September 18, 2019. (Thomson Reuters Foundation File Photo)
IGWA, Solomon Islands, April 9 (Tho
United Nations, April 9 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged support for the World Health Organization (WHO) after US President Donald Trump threatened to freeze American funding.
"It
A healthcare worker in protective suits helps an elderly person to get off an ambulance at the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center nursing home during the coronavirus epidemic. San Antonio, Texas,
Geneva, April 9 (IANS) "Please quarantine politicizing COVID. If we want to win, we shouldn't waste time pointing fingers," World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged
Washington, April 9 (IANS) US President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the World Health Organization (WHO) as he said that the US will make a determination on WHO funding.
On Wednesday, Trump while
New York, April 9 (IANS) New York's "battle on the mountaintop" against coronavirus is raging, its death toll rose by a record number for a second consecutive day, hospitalisations are slowing and its curv
Beijing, April 9 (IANS) The first batch of 866 people stranded in virus-hit Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, has arrived in Beijing by a train after Wuhan lifted its outbound travel restri
New York, April 9 (IANS) Global confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed 1.5 million on Wednesday afternoon local time, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Univers
Healthcare workers push a stretcher holding a deceased persons on it at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April
Police officers are seen outside St Thomas' Hospital after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a second night in intensive care after his coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms worsened on Monday. London, Brita
Nurses of a designated COVID-19 intensive care unit at Mass General Hospital send a public message in concern of the disease outbreak, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., March 27, 2020, in this still image taken f
French President Emmanuel Macron talks with social workers and volunteers in charge of assisting the elderly in the area during a visit at a communal center for social action (CCAS) in La Courneuve near P
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. RE
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Tablighi Jamaat, the super spreader of the coronavirus in India seems to have caused a spike in the coronavirus positive cases in Pakistan also.
Congress leader Manish Tewari s
Pope Francis delivers the weekly Angelus prayer as it is streamed via video over the internet from inside the Vatican on March 29, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
VATICAN CITY, April 8 (Reuters):&n
A general view of a street, after Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly ordered all restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, night clubs, shopping malls and shops to shut their doors from 0700 p.m. due to the coronav
GENEVA, APRIL 8 (IANS): The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to wipe out 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 - equivalent to 195 million full-time workers, which far exceeds t
New Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye (R) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 13, 2019. (IANS