SINGAPORE: A one-minute Covid breath test has been approved for trial use in Singapore, according to the local startup that developed the screening. Officials from Breathonix, a company affiliated with the National University of Singapore, said they have begun work with the health ministry to host a trial of the Covid screening at one of […]

NEW YORK CITY, New York: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer this week obtained US regulatory approval to store its COVID-19 vaccine at normal refrigerator temperatures for up to one month, this greatly easing logistical barriers to more widespread distribution of the vaccine. “The ability to store Pfizer vaccine in refrigerators for a period of time is great […]

NEW YORK CITY, New York: New studies are finding that middle-aged people who predominantly turn to TV for entertainment have a greater risk of losses in their abilities to reason and remember later in life. In fact, researchers said that even moderate amounts of TV viewing could worsen performance on cognitive tests as people age. […]

OSAKA, Japan: The spread of the Covid virus in Osaka, Japan’s second-largest city, is causing what doctors call a “system collapse” of the city’s healthcare network. Osaka, located in Japan’s western region with a population of 9 million people, representing 7 percent of Japan’s population, has accounted for one-third of the country’s Covid death toll […]

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will ask Congress for $75 million in assistance for Palestinians in Gaza following the recent cease-fire that brought an end to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Blinken made the announcement after talks in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday. “We […]

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting Tuesday with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem and Palestinian leaders in Ramallah as part of an effort to build on a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that went into effect late last week. “Even as we were working with the parties and partners to help reach […]

The European Union is urging member nations to close their airspace and airports to all Belarusian airlines after Belarus forced a commercial jetliner to make an emergency landing Sunday in Minsk and arrested an opposition blogger critical of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. A number of airlines, including Lufthansa, released statements earlier in the day stating […]

JERUSALEM, May 21 (Xinhua) — A rare fossil of an extinct aquatic reptile, which dates back to about 70 million years ago, has been discovered in southern Israel, the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center (DSASC) in southeastern Israel said on Friday. The fossil was discovered by hikers in Havarim Stream in the southern Negev […]

BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) — China is unwilling to see the current difficulties in China-European Union (EU) relations caused by EU’s unjustified sanctions and the responsibility does not lie with China, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday, adding it is hoped that the EU side will make serious reflections. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks […]

The Germany economy is enduring a moment of flux as it tries to shake off the coronavirus crisis. In the United States, investors will be watching April data on personal spending. Chinas central bank said Sunday it will maintain the exchange rate of the yuan at “basically stable” levels. The Germany economy is enduring a […]