GENEVA – COVID-19’s impact on efforts to combat gross human rights violations will be a major focus of the 46th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The four-week session, which starts Monday in Geneva, will be held virtually because of th…

It was one year ago that Italy became the first country outside of Asia to confirm locally transmitted coronavirus infections.On February 20, 2020, Italy confirmed its first COVID-19 infection in a 38-year-old man from Codogno. Hours later, a 77-year…

The World Health Organization says it welcomes the recent pledges of coronavirus vaccines from several Western countries to the international health group that will help ensure an equitable allocation of vaccines to countries around the world.“There is…

PARIS – Every Tuesday evening, Moroccan student Chaimae Irfaq hands out food parcels to dozens of hard-up students in the foyer of her Paris university residence and takes one home for herself. Irfaq arrived in France in October to complete her busines…

Datuk Ar Haji Hajeedar Haji Abdul Majid had planned to pen his autobiography on reaching 60, but a busy architectural practice kept him from it until he reached 75 in 2020, and when the COVID-19 lockdown provided him the opportunity to complete the boo…

U.S. President Joe Biden toured a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing plant Friday afternoon outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he touted his administration’s plans to distribute the vaccine to Americans, even as winter weather across the country cau…

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday a $4 billion pledge to a global campaign to bolster the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries. At his first meeting as president with world leaders at the Munich Security Conference, Biden announ…

The East Klang Valley Expressway (EKVE) construction project, which has been identified as the source of murky water in Sungai Kelang, is still under a stop-work order effective Oct 13 last year.Selangor Department of Environment (DOE) director Aziah J…

Malaysians are waiting with bated breath for a historic moment to unfold on Sunday that will remain etched in memory for a long time to come.For it is on this date of Feb 21 that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive at the KL International …

HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe rolled out its COVID-19 vaccine program Thursday, with health workers getting the first of 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines donated by China.Officials applauded after Zimbabwe’s vice president, Constantino Chiwenga, received his v…