International Reports

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has voiced concern over the arrest of about 300 government officials in Saudi Arabia on corruption allegations, warning of possible "unfair legal proceedings" in an opaque judicial system. "The fight against…

Chinese authorities reported early Tuesday that 21 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been reported, almost all of them from abroad, while the death toll has resin to 13. The State Health Committee of China said in a…

Minister of Health for Somalia Fawzia Abikar Nur said her country has confirmed the first infection of the coronavirus after a person who was in quarantine was found that he has been infected. “After quarantine and testing of four…

Qatar’s Health Ministry on Monday reported 38 new coronavirus cases in the country. In a statement, the Ministry noted that most of the new cases recorded were related to migrant workers who were under quarantine. According to the…

“The most effective way to prevent infections and save lives, is breaking the chains of transmission. And to do that, you must test and isolate”, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at Monday’s COVID-19 press briefing, held…

The UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA, is expressing increasing concern about the women and girls trapped in Syria’s dire and escalating humanitarian crisis, especially in the north-west, where hostilities have…

China’s experience in containing the spread of the new coronavirus could serve as a lesson for other countries now facing the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official with the World Health Organization (WHO) has told UN News in an…

An earthquake measuring 5.4 on Richter scale hit, at dawn today, Monday, the Roider district of Bandar Khmer in Hormuzgan province, in southern Iran. The Seismological Center of the Geophysical Foundation at the University of Tehran…

China on Monday announced that death toll from the new coronavirus (Covid-19)at the country’s 3,213, after 14 new death cases were reported in the past 24 hours, while nearly 67,000 cases have recovered after treatment. “The State Health…

In a video message recorded on Friday afternoon, UN chief António Guterres assured the world that the COVID-19 virus will peak, and the global economy will recover but, until then, “we must act together to slow the spread of the…