
Tunisia and Qatar report MERS deaths, more cases from Saudi Arabia
The Ministries of Health in Tunisia and Qatar have notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of two additional laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) More...

MERS coronavirus: 29-year-old Qatari man is the 104th case globally
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday that they were informed about two additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) of of Qatar. Confirmation of both cases was More...

New MERS-CoV case reported in Qatar, third case in the Arab state
Qatar’s Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has reported a new case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), making it the third case in a Qatari. According to a Gulf News report today, the patient More...

Qatari patient dies from MERS-CoV at London’s St Thomas’ Hospital, brings global death count to 43
A patient from the Arab state of Qatar, who was being treated for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) at a London hospital, has died from the infection, according to a Public Health England More...

Explosion in Damascus kills atleast a dozen, Parliament member blames Saudi Arabia and US for terrorism
An explosion in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed more than a dozen people, according to reports. Some media outlets said 13 people died in the blast and more than 70 others were injured. Syrian car bomb rubble, More...

Saudi Arabia revealed to be top German arms trade partner
German weapons exports to Persian Gulf states more than doubled between 2011 and 2012, with Saudi Arabia by far the biggest buyer, according to information published in Friday’sSüddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Image/CIA The More...

CDC says risk of new coronavirus in travelers is low, offers recommendations
Image/W123 at Wikimedia Commons With at least nine cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed in parts of the Middle East, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice Thursday with More...

Photography professor Wafaa Bilal embeds camera in head
A US photography professor has got a ‘third eye’ to capture moments happening behind him. He has implanted a digital camera in the back of his head in the name art. Iraq-born Wafaa Bilal, a professor at New More...