Afghanistan

The Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs said on Friday that the first flight carrying Afghan pilgrims has landed in capital Kabul.

According to Fazal Mohammad Hussaini, the ministry&s spokesman, Afghan pilgrims have performed the Hajj rituals without any problem this year and the first group of pilgrims — 700 pilgrims — has...

From over a billion light-years away and surrounded by a plasma cloud, a new radio wave is being pick up on Earth, courthouse news agency reported.

In a new study published in Nature, astronomers discovered a new radio signal strikingly different from other recorded radio bursts. Captured by the Canadian CHIME Experiment, a massive telescope that...

A sore throat is now considered the most common COVID symptom, according to a new study in the UK. 

The study of 17,500 people who said they tested positive for coronavirus this week cited the symptom as the most prevalent.

According to British media reports, this was followed closely by headaches, blocked noses and coughs.

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The head of the World Health Organization this week warned that governments should re-deploy mitigation measures such as mask-wearing in the face of globally rising infection rates of SARS-CoV-2. 

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a media briefing this week that &cases of COVID-19 continue to rise,& a trend...