New York, Nov 13 (AFP/APP):Hit with a collapse of demand, US airlines will end the year with the lowest number of workers since at least 1987, 90,000 fewer than when
Geneva, Nov 12 (AFP/APP):Global maritime trade should recover next year after tanking by 4.1 percent in 2020 owing to the coronavirus, a UN agency forecast Thursday. "The pandemic has sent
Washington, Nov 12 (AFP/APP):Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sold $5.6 million of his stock in the US pharmaceutical company on the same day it announced promising results for its Covid-19 vaccine
Washington, Nov 12 (AFP/APP):US President-elect Joe Biden pressed ahead with his transition Wednesday despite Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge defeat, naming a seasoned Democratic operative as chief of staff in
Washington, Nov 12 (AFP/APP):After several weeks of rapidly rising coronavirus cases, hospitals around the United States are once again overwhelmed, forcing local authorities to take new measures to cope with
Abuja, Nov 11 (AFP/APP):Millions of people, including in Africa's most populous country Nigeria, risk contracting diseases such as polio and measles as the coronavirus pandemic has halted vaccination campaigns, the
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11 (APP):Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif Wednesday discussed a gamut of bilateral and regional issues, including Afghan peace, border crossing, Islamophobia and
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11 (APP):World Health Organization’s (WHO) Pakistan Representative, Dr Palitha Mahipala Wednesday said that WHO would continue to provide all possible support to Pakistan amid the coronavirus crisis. WHO
Stockholm, Nov 11 (AFP/APP):The first vaccinations in the European Union against Covid-19 could take place in the first quarter of 2021 in an optimistic scenario, the head of the EU
Brussels, Nov 9 (AFP/APP):The European Medicines Agency is still reviewing the safety of a Covid-19 vaccine submitted by Pfizer and BionNTech and has not received clinical trial data, EU sources