A Palestinian woman from Syria has become the first refugee living in a camp in Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday. The woman…
Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Early this year, as the novel coronavirus began to spread inChina, the predictions were immediate and stark: the outbreak was China’s “Chernobyl…
The effectiveness of our protections against future pandemics will hinge upon how we think about where they come from. The emerging conventional…
As if anyone needed another reminder of fraying transatlantic ties, the novel coronavirus pandemic has made abundantly clear just how bad relations…
What would happen if Arab doctors decided to stay at home? This is a question which former director of the Mossad, Efraim Halevy, posed amidst the…
After nearly a decade of war that has demolished health care systems, driven up to 70 per cent of medical staff out of the country and left behind a…
An unanticipated side effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been the upending of traditional regional dynamics in favor of new, ad hoc coalitions to…
April 17
The Reverend Stuart Elliott blesses the new fire as part of his Service of New Light for Easter Eve on the shore of Llyn Mymbyr in Snowdonia on April 08, 2020 in Capel Curig, Wales. (Getty)
US President Donald Trump (C - partially hidden) gestures over the lectern as he speaks, flanked by (From L) Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, US Vice President Mike Pence and Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx, during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House. (Getty)
Volunteers from the Violet organisation perform a puppet show for children in a camp for displaced Syrians, to inform them about the novel coronavirus and the methods used in order to limit its spread, in the village of Kafr Yahmul, north of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. (Getty)
Marco Antonio Galeana, parish priest of the Cordova church, hears the confession of a devotee outside the church in Acapulco, Mexico during the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Getty)
Personnel of Local Defence Unit (LDU), Paramilitary force composed of civilians, deliver meiz flour and beans during the first day of food distribution for people who have been affected by the lockdown in Kampala. (Getty)
Police officers wearing protective suits fetch a resident suspected of having COVID-19 from his home in a slum area to be taken to an isolation facility on April 15, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. (Getty)
A few days ago, Russian police seized a truck loaded with 200 thousand US dollars worth of drugs at a rural town near Damascus. The truck originated…
The current coronavirus lockdown measures in Lebanon have resulted in a national economic downturn, which has been getting worse day by day. The…
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