Tue 19 May 2020: (Reuters) – An Etihad Airways plane flew on Tuesday from the United Arab Emirates to Israel to deliver coronavirus supplies to the Palestinians, a spokeswoman for the Abu Dhabi airline said, marking the first known flight by a UAE airline to Israel. Israel does not have diplomatic relations with any of […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: Some New York City neighbourhoods have seen death rates from the novel coronavirus nearly 15 times higher than others, according to data released by New York City’s health department on Monday, showing the disproportionate toll taken on poor communities. The data shows for the first time a breakdown on the number […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stressed that all of its institutions are mobilizing their efforts to confront the novel coronavirus. These efforts have been exerted in the health, humanitarian, media, political, economic, educational, religious sectors and others to help overcome the impact of the pandemic. The OIC’s secretariat had held […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: Unemployment benefit claims in the UK have increased to 2.1 million, their highest level since 1996, according to new figures published on Tuesday, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to extract an economic toll. The Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK’s official statistics agency, said that 856,500 more people claimed welfare […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: The global coronavirus recoveries surpassed the 1.8 million mark on Tuesday, according to a running tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s data showed a total of 1,801,461 people won the battle against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The number of cases crossed 4.82 million, while […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque will reopen to worshippers after Eid al-Fitr holiday, the authority responsible for overseeing the city’s holy sites said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department said steps to reopen the site will be announced soon. Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: (REUTERS) Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Monday to lift some of the remaining restrictions imposed on business to halt the spread of the coronavirus, even as the country recorded a rise in infections since beginning to emerge from lockdown. In its decision, which is binding, the court said the […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: US President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug he has repeatedly touted for the treatment of coronavirus patients. “A lot of good things have come out about the hydroxy. You’d be surprised at how many people are taking it, especially the frontline workers,” Trump […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: The number of confirmed cases in India of the novel coronavirus surpassed 100,000 early Tuesday, according to data from US- based John Hopkins University. India is now ranked 11th in the world in terms of the highest number of coronavirus infections while its death toll has reached 3,156. According […]
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Tue 19 May 2020: Beijing, China: A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in China late last year before spreading across the world, prompting an international race to find treatments and vaccines. A drug being tested by scientists […]
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