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MADRID: Spain said on Wednesday (Sep 1) 70 per cent of its population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, fulfilling a goal set by the government for August, while the incidence rate kept the decreasing tendency of the past month…

WELLINGTON: New Zealand reported a drop in new COVID-19 infections on Thursday (Sep 2), which authorities said was a sign that a nationwide lockdown was helping to limit spread of the infectious Delta variant. Barring a few cases in…

BANI WALID, Libya: Halima William crossed the desert from Nigeria to Libya hoping to reach Europe for a better life, but was forced into prostitution until she was able to escape and find refuge in a rare safe house. The story of William,…

RIO DE JANEIRO: The number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the burning season opened in August fell slightly from 2020, but remained close to the near-decade highs seen under President Jair Bolsonaro, new data showed on Wednesday (Sep…

SHANGHAI: Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi has warned the United States that political tensions between Beijing and Washington could undermine efforts by the world's top two sources of greenhouse gas to cooperate in the fight against climate…

SYDNEY: Australian doctors on Thursday (Sep 2) warned the country's hospitals are not ready to cope with the government's reopening plans, even with higher vaccination rates, as some states prepare to move from a virus suppression strategy…

LONDON: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Wednesday there was no urgent need for booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the fully vaccinated, citing data on the effectiveness of shots. The comments…

HAMBURG: Germany is facing a long-term battle to eradicate African swine fever carried into the east of the country by wild animals, state and federal authorities said on Wednesday (Sep 1). Some 2,036 cases of the disease have been…

NEW YORK: Pfizer and Merck & Co announced on Wednesday (Sep 1) new trials of their experimental oral antiviral drugs for COVID-19 as the race to develop an easy-to-administer treatment for the potentially fatal illness heats up. Pfizer…

BEIRUT: Lebanon is in free fall and must not become a "horror story", a US senator said during a visit to Beirut on Wednesday (Sep 1), voicing hope that a government would be formed this week to start addressing its destabilising financial…