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India's finance minister has said the country will launch a digital version of the rupee as early as this year. In her annual budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman also outlined plans for a 30% tax on income from digital assets. It would put pr..
The world's first "human challenge" trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease was found to be safe in healthy young adults, leaders of the study said on Wednesday. The data s..
Afghanistan's public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus. The Taliban administration has not of..
New Zealand has announced a phased reopening of its borders, as the country starts to ease some of the world's toughest Covid restrictions. Vaccinated citizens in Australia can go home from 27 February, while jabbed citizens elsewhere will be ..
At the head-of-state visit on 31 January 2022, the State of Qatar and the United States emphasised the success and longevity of their relationship and discussed a number of topics concerning the Qatar-US partnership. His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin ..
Analysis of COVID-19 patients admitted to Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) since 15 December 2021 shows that unvaccinated patients are eight times more likely to need admission to Intensive Care Units (ICU) due to severe Covid-19 infection than those ..
The National Sports Day Committee of the Shura Council held a meeting today, in the presence of HE Khalid bin Ghanem Al Ali Al Maadeed, HE Nasser bin Mohammed bin Nasser Al Juffali Al Nuaimi, members of the Shura Council, and a number of representati..
Leading South African scientists are set to investigate COVID-19 and HIV in tandem, amid mounting evidence that the collision of the two pandemics could be generating new coronavirus variants. The team at the Network for Genomic Surveillance in So..
U.S. regulators are considering the first COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 5, the only age group not yet eligible for the shots, after Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and BioNTech SE began the regulatory approval pr...
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