FILE PHOTO Sat 30 May 2020: (Reuters) – A multilateral naval anti-drug operation confiscated 50 tonnes of cocaine in 45 days, Colombia President Ivan Duque said on Friday. The Orion V operation – which includes 26 countries from the Americas and Europe – took place from the start of April until May 15. Some 150 […]
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Sat 30 May 2020: (Reuters) – A United Nations aviation-led task force is urging airlines, airports and countries to come up with a uniform approach to flying safely during the coronavirus pandemic, although it stopped short of providing specific requirements for the hard hit industry’s recovery. “States and industry need to work together to put […]
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Sat 30 May 2020: (Reuters) – A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities said on Friday. The attack occurred this week when a laboratory technician was walking in the campus of a state-run medical college in […]
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Sat 30 May 2020: US President Donald Trump said he is severing ties with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the death toll from the disease spiked again in the United States and Brazil. Trump’s move signals an end to hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: Russia saw a record rise in coronavirus-related deaths on Friday as 232 fatalities were registered in the country over the past day, raising the death toll to 4,374. Fatalities spiked for a second day in a row, according to data published by the country’s emergency task force formed to curb the […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: The number of COVID-19 cases in India has climbed to 1,65,799, making it the world’s ninth worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic. The Union health ministry said the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,706 in the country, while the number of cases climbed to 1,65,799, registering an increase of […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: (AP) The U.N. humanitarian chief urgently appealed for $2.4 billion to help millions of people in Yemen cope with the conflict and COVID-19, saying programs are already being cut and the situation is “alarming.” Mark Lowcock told a U.N. briefing Thursday that the United Nations received $3.2 billion last year for […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: As of May 29, the global death toll surpassed 360,000 amid more than 5.8 million cases. Over 2.4 million people have recovered from the disease worldwide, according to the data collected by the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Coronavirus has been labelled a pandemic but a handful of countries have not yet […]
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Emirates airlines website enabled the option to book flights out of Dubai to 16 destinations in 12 Arab countries, starting from July 1. The airline’s website allowed booking flights to destinations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan and Sudan. However, the airline was keen to emphasize that while it is allowing […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: BOGOTA, Colombia Latin American countries reported nearly 840,000 coronavirus cases and more than 45,000 deaths as of Thursday, with the region accounting for 40% of daily coronavirus deaths worldwide. Brazil, Peru, Chile and Mexico have each reported more than 10,000 new cases in the past five days and their healthcare […]
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