Sun 10 May 2020: (AFP) In a world suddenly fearful of touch, voice technology is getting a fresh look. Voice-activated systems such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple’s Siri have seen strong growth in recent years, and the virus pandemic could accelerate that, analysts say. Voice assistants are not only answering queries and shopping, […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: The US federal government is sending supplies of the first drug that appears to help speed the recovery of some COVID-19 patients to six states, where it will be distributed by health departments. The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Saturday that it is delivering 140 cases of the […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has approved amendments to the country’s state of emergency that grant him and security agencies additional powers, which the government says are needed to combat the coronavirus outbreak. An international rights group condemned the amendments, saying the government has used the global pandemic to expand, not reform, […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it was easing the lockdown, imposed over the coronavirus, in the holy city of Madinah. The restrictions will be relaxed in the neighborhoods of Sharibat, Bani Zafar, Qurban, al-Jomaa and parts of al-Iskan and Bani Khidra, said the Interior Ministry. The decision is effective as of […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Russia completed a week of more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases per day on Saturday but also reported its highest single-day tally of recoveries so far. A total of 10,817 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, while 5,308 patients were discharged from hospitals over the same period, […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Dozens of vulnerable families from a slum area in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday received food and non-food assistance from the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). “I have not eaten anything for the past three days, I was a housemaid for a family in Runda [affluent suburb] but they […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Desperate times call for desperate measures, or so the saying goes, and in the continued battle against the coronavirus, we may be asked to forfeit our privacy in an attempt to control the rate of infections. The UK government has announced that it will be rolling out a contact tracing app in the […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Restrictions on travel into the European Union will be kept in place until at least mid-June, the bloc announced on Friday. While borders between EU nations may soon begin to reopen in some form or another, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, has backed keeping curbs on travel to the continent in […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: (AFP) Worshippers packed Mauritania’s largest mosque on Friday, mostly ignoring social distancing rules, after the West African state lifted restrictions on public prayers meant to curb coronavirus infections. The government said this week it would “progressively ease” a series of anti-virus measures, allowing markets to open and mosques to hold Friday […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Health authorities in several Arab countries confirmed more cases and deaths Friday from the novel coronavirus as the Middle East struggles to contain its spread. Egyptian officials said the death toll from the virus rose to 503 after 21 patients died. The number of cases there has risen to 8,476 while […]
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