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DUBAI: As COVID-19 threw fragile global supply chains into disarray, many companies were stunned by their own vulnerability. The risk of depending on a supply base that is concentrated in one

LONDON: UK scientists have warned that the South African strain of COVID-19 might prove resistant to current vaccines, the Daily Telegraph reported. It is known to carry three separate mutations, one

TOKYO: Top-ranked sumo wrestler Hakuho has the coronavirus.Hakuho took a COVID-19 test after losing his sense of smell, the Japan Sumo Association said on Tuesday.The 35-year-old Mongolian-born

DUBAI: Iran has registered its first case of a highly contagious coronavirus variant that emerged in Britain, in an Iranian who arrived from the UK, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday.

LONDON: Early-stage trials indicate that a cheap and readily available drug has the potential to make “transformative” changes to COVID-19 mortality rates, according to a leaked presentation by

WASHINGTONG: The US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that due to “recent threats” by Iran the USS Nimitz would stay in position.

DUBAI: Iran has resumed 20 percent uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow nuclear facility, the government spokesman told the semi-official Mehr news agency on Monday, a level of purity that is

ANKARA: Academic freedom in Turkey was dealt a huge blow with a politically motivated appointment to one of the country’s handful of independent universities, Bogazici University, which is more than

ISLAMABAD: For 15 years, Mushtaq Khan has worked as a daily wage laborer on construction sites in Islamabad, sending money home to his family in northwestern Pakistan and making enough to be able to

ISTANBUL: A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company killed four people including one Turkish citizen on Saturday in Somalia, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said. The company’s staff were working

DUBAI: Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud is set to star in a new Egyptian feature film titled “Fe Ez el Dohr.” He will reportedly fly to Cairo to begin pre-production.   “Fe Ez el Dohr” is the

DUBAI: She’s appeared in plenty of blockbuster films and now French-Algerian actress Sofia Boutella is set to star in a new campaign video for Parisian fashion label Chloe. The 38-year-old actress

The Saudi Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf), represented by the Saudi e-training platform Doroob, has announced that the third phase of the program will kick off on Friday via the link:

RIYADH: Expats in Saudi Arabia have welcomed a ministry move to study changing the payment schedule for dependent and government fees, saying it will reduce the financial burden on them. The Ministry

DUBAI: The world is preparing for an unprecedented celebration of New Year’s Eve, previously marked with grand public events. This year many countries have put restrictions to avoid mass gatherings

Saudi supermarket operator BinDawood Holding is pushing ahead with expansion plans after a 23.5 percent rise in sales at its Danube outlets during the pandemic. The Danube stores reported the surge

MANILA: A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out a new COVID-19 variant found in nearby Malaysia, its governor

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Health and Prevention confirmed 1,723 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, state news agency WAM reported. The new cases were detected after the ministry

UAE records 1,723 new coronavirus cases, 1,607 recoveries and 3 deaths

BEIJING: The number of coronavirus cases in the city where the outbreak was first detected may have been 10 times higher than official figures suggest, according to a study by Chinese health

NEW YORK: As the coronavirus pandemic upended the world in 2020, hardly a week passed without the UN secretary-general sounding the alarm over another, related pandemic: That of an inequitable world

RIYADH: Weather warnings have been issued for several regions across Saudi Arabia from Wednesday until Friday, the Kingdom’s civil defense said on Tuesday. The authority warned of thunderstorms with

MADINAH: Madinah Regional Municipality signed an investment contract with United Othaim Co. to set up and operate a hotel and a commercial market. The project is located in the southwestern central

DETROIT: When Andre Avery drives his commercial truck through Detroit, he keeps his pistol close. Avery, 57, grew up in the Motor City and is aware that homicides and shootings are surging, even