Sat 20 June 2020: The Amazon region has been in the headlines for several weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has a high percentage of its indigenous population experiencing serious health difficulties in dealing with the virus. But not all news is discouraging. In the midst of a health emergency, some are using their […]
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Sat 20 June 2020: Muslim males have the highest rates of death involving Covid-19 among all religious groups, with a risk of dying that is 2.5 times higher than males who have no religion, new analysis suggests. The age-adjusted mortality rate for Muslim males in England and Wales during the first few months of the […]
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Sat 20 June 2020: Zimbabwe’s health minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested on Friday for alleged corruption related to the supply of medical materials to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s anti-graft agency said. He was being held at a Harare police station and is likely to appear in court on Saturday. “I can confirm that […]
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Sat 20 June 2020: The US will release convicted Hezbollah financier Kassim Tajideen three years into his five-year sentence due to his poor health and risks of COVID-19 infection from prison, according to court documents. On May 28 Washington Federal District Court Judge Reggie Walton granted Tajideen’s emergency request for compassionate release, which said his […]
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Sat 20 June 2020: Brazil passed one million coronavirus cases and approached 50,000 deaths in a new nadir for the world’s second-worst-hit country. The country’s health ministry reported 1,032,913 confirmed cases on Friday, with 1,206 new deaths that took the total official death toll to 48,954. Friday also saw a new record daily number of […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: Mosques in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca are preparing to reopen their doors on June 21 after the coronavirus pandemic forced them to halt prayers for three months, state television channel al-Ekhbariya reported on Friday. More than 1,500 mosques will be allowed to reopen in the city if they follow preventative health measures […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: Putin says despite positive dynamics in fight against coronavirus in Russia, lots of problems remain on agenda MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia is coming out of the coronavirus pandemic “with minimal losses”. At the same time, a lot of problems related to the pandemic […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: TEHRAN (AA) – Iran on Friday confirmed 120 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 9,392. Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said a further 2,615 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 200,262. A total of 159,192 […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: Lawyers and critics now say that in light of coronavirus, legal arguments against the burqa ban are much weaker and that it’s time to put an end to the criminalisation of women who choose to cover their faces in public. For Karima Rahmani and other Muslim women who wear the niqab […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: Leaving 1.6B students out of school in April, COVID-19 estimated to cause $10T loss in earnings, World Bank report says ANKARA (AA) – COVID-19-related school closures can lead to a permanent loss in education and cause a loss of $10 trillion in earnings, a World Bank report estimated on Thursday. “This ($10 […]
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