Syria's central bank devalued the Syrian pound on Wednesday giving in to weeks of depreciation on the black market as new US sanctions took effect. The central bank raised the official exchange rate from 704 to 1,256 Syrian pounds to the dollar, in a statement published on its social media pages.

Syria devalues currency as new US sanctions hit

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was moving to update its guidelines on treating people stricken with COVID-19 to reflect results of a clinical trial that showed a cheap, common steroid can help save critically ill patients.

WHO moves to update COVID-19 guidance after 'great news' in drug study

After the altercation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between China and India which caused casualties on both the sides, India needs to come up with strategic ways to counter China’s aggression.

Strategies India could undertake to counter Chinese aggressions

China is currently experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. The second-wave began in a local food market in the country’s capital Beijing. The capital city with a population of 20 million has at least 106 active cases in the city.

While China blames its second-wave of coronavirus on the west, WHO looks the other way again

The United States is currently in the process of filtering out potential vaccine candidates for COVID-19. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, out of the previous 14 vaccines, the country has zeroed in on seven potential vaccines for the killer COVID-19 pandemic, which has now infected over 8 million people worldwide.

US narrows down potential coronavirus vaccine candidates to 7

While the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, amid increasing fears of a second-wave, the headlines around the world have been tiptoeing around fear and action to contain the crisis.

China braces for second-wave of coronavirus, absolves itself of blame for negligence

As protests against systemic racism soar across the world, people are changing the way they look at history, with calls for a revisionist lens in narrating historical events, especially involving minorities and the historically marginalised.

Protesters in the UK want 'fascist and racist' Gandhi's statue removed, clashes ensue

Chinese media is allegedly peddling a positive narrative for President Xi Jining. Most of these pegs run along the lines of him being a people-centric leader, “a president who is eradicating poverty”, and an “environmentalist”, all while being a “messiah for minorities”.

All about the optics: Chinese media goes full-throttle to make Jinping look like a 'messiah'

A US state will now pay its citizens $1,500 to bring back the workforce. The state of Idaho is luring citizens back to work, in an additional bid to get people off the federal unemployment benefits.

This US state is offering $1,500 to its citizens in a bid to restart the economy

The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are not certain, World Health Organization officials said on Monday, describing as a "hypothesis" the claim that it might have been caused by imports or packaging of salmon.

WHO says 'hypothesis' about cause of China's latest virus outbreak needs further testing

Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new coronavirus among its workers.

Amazon to use AI tech in its warehouses to enforce social distancing

People who contract the killer coronavirus and die witness a lot of heavy organ damage, especially in the lungs. Researchers today pointed out how the virus makes lungs of people almost unrecognisable.

Coronavirus: Lungs of people who succumb to the virus become unrecognisable

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