Mon 18 May 2020: The president of Madagascar urged citizens to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus by drinking COVID Organics (CVO), an organic herbal beverage he claimed could prevent or cure the virus. “Let’s drink this herbal tea to protect ourselves, to protect our family and our neighbors […] and there will be no […]
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Mon 18 May 2020: The world’s biggest economy faces a severe downtown but will not suffer another Great Depression, US Fed chief Jerome Powell said on Sunday, as three hardest-hit countries in Europe reported low death tolls and lockdowns eased. In the United States, too, with more than 30 million jobs destroyed, states have begun […]
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Mon 18 May 2020: The relaxation of curbs in some places comes as governments around the world struggle to repair the vast economic damage unleashed by the pandemic, with Japan the latest to slump into a recession and the Fed warning of a severe US downturn as the global infection count topped 4.7 million. Despite […]
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Mon 18 May 2020: Restaurants and churches will reopen in Italy on Monday as part of a fresh wave of lockdown easing in Europe, but rising coronavirus death tolls in Brazil, South Africa and other parts of the world showed the worst is still to come in many countries. But the World Health Organization has […]
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Sun 17 May 2020: (Reuters) – India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) asked the government on Sunday to extend a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus to May 31, as cases exceeded 90,000 and further clashes erupted between police and stranded migrants. The NDMA, responsible for setting policy on the lockdown, made its […]
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Sun 17 May 2020: Tension has also escalated along Demchok in eastern Ladakh; reports indicate Chinese construction activity has been spotted. Ladakh is being closely monitored and Indian troops are being reinforced along the border with reports of China pitching tents near river Galwan — a 1962 flashpoint that has seen aggression in recent days […]
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Sun 17 May 2020: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said scientists are working at “breakneck speed” to develop vaccines and medicine to fight COVID-19, but the world must ensure government-private sector cohesion. “Now is the moment where leaders must come together to develop a new global access policy,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said […]
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Sun 17 May 2020: The Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) distributed 2,000 food parcels here Saturday to needy families. The head of the Kizilay delegation, Mustafa Aydin, told Anadolu Agency that parcels were distributed to families and refugees in Marib as part of a campaign to distribute 5,000 food parcels in Yemen’s different provinces. The aid […]
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Sun 17 May 2020: The Sunday Times report says Britain’s super-rich have lost more than £54bn in the past two months amid the coronavirus pandemic. The combined wealth of the UK’s 1,000 richest people has plummeted for the first time since the financial crash, with some billionaires counting losses of up to £6bn since last […]
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Sun 17 May 2020: Former US President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized the response to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging America, in what was widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald Trump. His remarks came as he spoke at two virtual commencements for high school and university students locked down instead of […]
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