Sri Lankan women were urged to delay getting pregnant after more than 40 expectant mothers died of Covid-19 in four months, the health ministry said yesterday.

Experience has shown that a non-inclusive government does nothing to help stability, peace and progress in Afghanistan, so our expectation from the foreign ministers is to announce the necessity for the formation of an inclusive government with a unified voice.

At least 10 people were killed when a fire broke out in a makeshift hospital for Covid-19 patients in the North Macedonian town of Tetovo, the country's health minister said on Wednesday.

Regime shelling on a medical centre in northwestern Syria killed a woman yesterday, in the latest in a long list of government attacks on health facilities, a monitor said.

Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble yesterday accused the country’s president of “obstructing” a high-profile investigation into the fate of an intelligence agent whose disappearance sparked an outcry in the Horn of Africa nation.

1776 – US Congress renames the nation “United States of America”. This replaced the term “United Colonies.”

Nearly 80 Yemen rebels and pro-government troops have been killed as fighting intensifies for the northern city of Marib, officials said yesterday, nearly seven years into a war that has triggered a major humanitarian crisis.

China has a real problem with the Taliban. So they’re going to try to work out some arrangement with the Taliban, I’m sure. As does Pakistan, as does Russia, as does Iran.

CIA Director William Burns had a meeting with India’s National Security Adviser Ajit K Doval in New Delhi on Tuesday, while Russia’s National Security Advisor Nikolay Patrushev arrived in India’s national capital for “high-level” discussions on the evolving situation in Afghanistan.

US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was certain China would try to work out an arrangement with the Taliban after the Islamic insurgents seized power in Afghanistan on Aug. 15.

Severe flooding led to the deaths of 17 people, most of whom had Covid-19, at a hospital in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo after torrential rains caused the River Tula to burst its banks, authorities said on Tuesday.

Cuba on Monday became the first country in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two against Covid-19, using home-grown jabs not recognized by the World Health Organization.

A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail for spreading Covid-19 after he breached home quarantine rules. Le

A global network of more than 1,500 climate NGOs called on Britain to postpone the upcoming COP26 climate summit, saying in

Nasa confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over

An Australian mother yesterday said she felt “blessed” after her three-year-old son with autism was found alive and sound, scooping muddy water from a creek in dense outback terrain after a three-day hunt that gripped the country.

As Covid-19 cases and deaths exploded in India in April and May, New Delhi’s premier Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and several others ran so short of oxygen that many patients in the capital suffocated.

Myanmar’s shadow government, formed by opponents of military rule, called for a revolt against the junta yesterday, setting out a strategy that included action by armed militias and ethnic forces and urging bureaucrats to leave their posts.

Universities in Kabul were almost empty on the first day of the Afghan school year, as professors and students wrestled with the Taliban’s restrictive new rules for the classroom.

At least 23 people, including three children, were killed after a bus plunged off a cliff in central Bolivia, police and witnesses said.