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WHO warns virus may be here to stay as toll nears 300,000

The coronavirus may never go away and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they have HIV, the World Health Organization has warned, as the global death toll from the disease nears 300,000. There were also gloomy forecasts from the US Federal Reserve, which said prolonged...

Fear of virus grows in Yemen's squalid camps

In a desolate camp for Yemenis displaced by war, Nasima Ahmed wonders how she and her four children can possibly protect themselves as the novel coronavirus stalks the country. The five-year-old conflict between the government and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels has pushed millions to the...

WHO stresses need to find source of coronavirus

Pinning down the source of the coronavirus pandemic should help in working out how COVID-19 has "invaded the human species" so quickly, a senior WHO official told AFP. The outbreak has triggered a fierce diplomatic spat between China and the United States -- with the World Health...

Explosive device wounds two people in Afrin

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two people were wounded by an improvised explosive device in the northern town of Afrin, such an attack follows a series of Kurdish militias attacks against civilians in Turkish-held areas. According to Zaman al-Wasl reporter, the IED went off in a commercial area in...