Delegates attending an urgent debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council on the status of women and girls in Afghanistan are urging the international community to exert maximum pressure on the Taliban.In opening Friday’s debate, U.N. human rights chief Mi…

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 1. The official exchange rate of the US dollar and the euro against the Azerbaijani manat as of July 1, 2022 was set at 1.7 and 1.7773 manat respectively, Trend reports via the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA).The manat rate in r…

Thursday afternoon in Kolkata, India, fruit seller Tanvir Alam sat behind a basket of mangos on the sidewalk of a busy street, saying the nationwide ban on single-use plastic bags that goes into effect Friday, would hurt business.“I do not know now wha…

The number of new coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week, with more than 4.1 million cases reported globally, according to the World Health Organization.The U.N. health agency said in its latest weekly report on the pandemic that the worldwide …

Weeks after acknowledging its first coronavirus infections, North Korea appears to be blaming the outbreak on balloons sent by defector-activists in South Korea.North Korean officials said Friday they traced the outbreak to an inter-Korean border regio…

Future waves of COVID-19 might be predicted using internet search data, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.In the study, researchers watched the number of COVID-related Google searches made across the country and used that…

Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech said on Wednesday they signed a $3.2 billion deal with the U.S. government for 105 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, which could be delivered as soon as later this summer.The deal includes supplies of a retooled …