Death toll rises to 39 as fighting between Armenia, Azerbaijan enters second day

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Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh said on Monday 15 more of its fighters have been killed in a flare-up of a territorial dispute, bringing the death toll to 39 as the fighting entered a second day. World leaders have urged a halt to the fighting between Azerbaijan and the Armenian rebels after clashes erupted on Sunday, raising the spectre of an all-out conflict that could draw in regional powers — Russia and Turkey. Ex-Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked since the early 1990s in a…

EU warns against suspension of children vaccination amid Covid-19 pandemic

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Andrea Ammon, director European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control warned that some countries in Europe have suspended all vaccinations during the epidemic.(Reuters file photo. Representative image) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The European Union warned on Monday that decisions by some European countries to suspend vaccination of children during the coronavirus epidemic could cause serious problems. “It is very clear we will get pockets of people, children, who have not been vaccinated,” Andrea Ammon, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), told EU lawmakers. She said most…