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China is on high alert against COVID-19 as the New Year holiday looms, with the city of Xian under lockdown while several New Year's Eve events in other cities have been cancelled and some provinces urged restraint in travel during the festive se..
Italy reported 202 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday against 142 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 78,313 from 30,810, hitting a fresh record in terms of new cases since the start of the pan..
A Christian Palestinian warmed many hearts when a video of him reciting the Muslim call to prayer at the time of breaking fasts began to circulate online. Palestinian Christian Nael Ghantous...
The third edition of the Generation Amazing Youth Festival has attracted young people from across the Arab world. Held during the FIFA Arab Cup, the event has united youth from all 16 competing nations. Generation Amazing is a FIFA World Cup legac..
German Police arrested 11 people for attacking the Eyüp Sultan Mosque, in Germany, of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in Germany's Leipzig province on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, ..
Singapore has detected its first locally transmitted case of the COVID-19 variant Omicron in a member of staff at the city state's airport, authorities said late on Thursday, warning that more Omicron cases are likely to be detected. The..
Future pandemics could be even more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be squandered and the world should ensure it is prepared for the next viral onslaught, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine sa..
A mob of factory employees in eastern Pakistan tortured and burned a Sri Lankan manager on Friday over apparent blasphemy in a "horrific" attack that Prime Minister Imran Khan said brought shame on the country. A police official in the e..
The International Monetary Fund is likely to lower its global economic growth estimates due to the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the global lender's chief said at the Reuters Next conference on Friday in another sign of the turmoil unle..