Leste faces particularly acute climate challenges as an isolated, poor, and dry nation. Water remains scarce, intensifying public health concerns amid the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
First WHO/Europe virtual mission provides crucial assistance to Armenia on the shifting of COVID-19 measures
Experts from WHO/Europe, alongside the Robert Koch Institute, worked with Armenian health authorities on assessing the COVID-19 situation and offered advice on the strategy for easing COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)
Kuwait’s stocks reclaim some lost ground
Kuwait’s stocks have clawed their way back from the devastating hits they took on March 1, when 3.2 billion dinars (about $10.5 billion) worth of value evaporated on fears that the COVID-19 pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
COVID-19: Oman reports 38 deaths of coronavirus today
The ministry put the total deaths from COVID-19 at 38, one fatality higher than its previous update released on Tuesday. The total recoveries from the disease in Oman have increased to reach 2177, the ... ( read original story ...)
Oman to end lockdown of Muscat governorate on May 29
Oman will on Friday end a lockdown of its Muscat governorate - which includes the capital - that has been in place since April 10 as the sultanate eases its coronavirus containment measures, the state ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Oman records 255 new cases, smaller increase then recent days
Oman recorded a relatively small in increase in the number of its coronavirus cases, reporting 255 new cases on Wednesday. The total number of cases is now 8,373. The death toll is 38, with 2,177 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore fintech firm secures $17M to build out platform
Raking in $17 million in its latest fund raising, GoBear will be looking to build up a "full-fledged financial services platform" and tap an estimated base of 300 million in the region who remain ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Lebanon’s woes worsen as country pushed to the brink
Country was already rocked by unrest over the cost of living - then came coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
Israel’s Mizrahi Activists Are Fighting the Racist Nation-State Law
Echoing the country’s Black Panther movement of the early 1970s, they’re challenging the false binary of Arab vs. Jew, which the law strengthens. ( read original story ...)
Israel’s Choice, Between Shame and Pride
The opening of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial on Sunday was a moment of intense national shame and intense national pride. The shame is obvious: the serving prime minister taking ... ( read original story ...)