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A 60-year old Danish woman who died of a blood clot after receiving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine had “highly unusual” symptoms, according to the Danish Medicines Agency.
The Lebanese pound hit a new record low Monday, trading for LL12,600 against the dollar on the black market.
Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain’s effort … Read More
U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments about supporting a Yemen free from foreign influence are “positive”, Houthi official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said on Twitter on Monday.
The Israeli Defense Ministry Sunday said it has completed development of a new guided mortar system, giving the army a formidable new weapon against enemies embedded in crowded urban environments.
Lebanon’s top COVID-19 expert and director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital warned Monday of the possibility of a fourth wave of the virus.
Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Monday it had fired armed drones at an airport and air base in southern Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-aligned group said … Read More
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is considering how to respond to historically bad state election results that a senior member described as a “wake-up call,” six months before a national vote … Read More
As I was arriving to Beirut from Damascus to take up my new role as UNHCR representative in Lebanon, only a few weeks before the world would mark a shameful … Read More
Three NGOs Monday announced a landmark legal case in Moscow against Russian mercenary group Wagner over the torture of a detainee in Syria, aiming to hold to account a murky … Read More