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TEHRAN – – Iran’s Health Ministry said 80 percent of the coronavirus positive cases in the country have fully recovered from the infectious disease and left the hospital. Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoosh Jahanpoor said the number of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 …

02-05-2020 NEW YROK/ WASHINGTON: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorization to Gilead Sciences Inc. for emergency use of its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat patients with Covid-19, President Donald Trump announced on Friday. US medical officials have announced evidence from a trial that remdesivir helped patients …

01-05-2020 ATHENS/ LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: May Day is a public holiday and International Workers’ Day in countries from Indonesia to Finland. Protests are impossible for many, so labor groups have been forced to improvise — or to defy ban With restrictions owing to the coronavirus pandemic in place around …

01-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PERTH/ CANBERRA: Another ‘white terrorist’ has been shoot dead by police in Australia while the terror incidents in country will rise more in near future because of rapid increase in religious, sectarian, social, gender, economical, cultural and other discriminations, sources claimed. According to …

01-05-2020 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australia’s vast Northern Territory will become the first in the nation to move out of lockdown on Friday with the lifting of major restrictions. Group limits will be removed for weddings, funerals and sport while parks and pools will also open. Australia’s least populated territory …

01-05-2020 RIYADH/ MECCA/ MEDINA: Imam-e-Kaaba Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais assured Muslims that worshipers will soon return to the two holy sites in Saudi Arabia, reported the Saudi Gazette. “Days (will come) when the sorrow will be driven away from the Islamic Ummah and we return to the Two Holy Mosques for …

30-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies GENEVA/ NEW YORK/ PARIS: Around a third of the world’s known coronavirus patients, some 1,004,483 people, have recovered from the disease while, the number of confirmed  worldwide infections stood at more than 3.2 million, with some 228,000 deaths and more than 1 million recoveries. …

30-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BERLIN/ BREMEN/ MELBOURNE: Germany has banned all activity by the Islamist Hezbollah movement and police have carried out raids on mosques and centres linked to the group. Until now the political wing of the Shia Lebanese group, backed by Iran, was able to operate …

29-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports TEHRAN. ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan condemned the US sanctions and mounting pressures against Iran amid the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he feels bound to support Tehran in the face of Washington’s illegal sanctions. In a telephone conversation on …

29-04-2020 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: On 29 April 1770, explorer James Cook arrived in Australia. He would later claim the region for the British crown but celebrations in Australia for the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s voyage have been a muted affair. This is mainly down to the coronavirus …