Wed 20 May 2020: A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state’s first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely. Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction on Friday, court documents […]
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Wed 20 May 2020: German chancellor Angela Merkel and the central European leaders on Tuesday agreed on gradually reopening border crossings and lifting controls as soon as the coronavirus pandemic allows. The announcement came after Merkel and the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad nations — Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia — spoke today, according […]
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Wed 20 May 2020: There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on Tuesday, though they cautioned that the bad news was that human immunity may not last that long. As Europe and the United States start to return to work after c […]
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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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