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The Chinese dad making medicine to treat his dying son
AFP, Published on 23/11/2021
» KUNMING: Two-year-old Haoyang has likely just months to live -- but the only medicine that can help his rare genetic condition is not found anywhere in China and closed borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic mean he cannot travel for treatment.
Gaming becomes king of entertainment in pandemic lockdown
AFP, Published on 06/05/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO - You are facing a pandemic lockdown with no seeming escape.
Cut! Coronavirus pegs back Ramadan soaps
AFP, Published on 03/04/2020
» DUBAI - Missing scenes, unfinished episodes and sets sanitised against coronavirus -- much-loved Ramadan television soaps are struggling to keep the cameras rolling just weeks before the Islamic holy month.
Pope heads to UAE for historic trip
AFP, Published on 03/02/2019
» ABU DHABI - Pope Francis heads to the UAE Sunday for the first ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, birthplace of Islam, where he will hold an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Catholics.
No face-to-face meetings set for Yemen peace talks
AFP, Published on 02/09/2018
» ADEN - Yemen's warring parties will not meet directly at UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva this week, likely to focus on a prisoner exchange deal and the fate of a key port, government officials said Sunday.