Tue 21 April 2020: (AFP) US crude prices bounced back into positive territory Tuesday, a day after crashing below $0.00 for the first time owing to crippled demand and a storage glut, while the commodity rout sent Asian equities sharply lower. West Texas Intermediate for May delivery was changing hands at $1.10 a barrel after […]
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Tue 21 April 2020: With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of workers have lost their jobs as farmers have suffered thousands in losses The coronavirus has demolished the ability of Gaza’s flower farmers selling their produce abroad. Farmers begin planting their orchids in June, spending $32,000 to tend to one acre of land, […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: Key question is how to get any reparation and whether China can be held accountable in court, says expert International law experts are blaming Beijing for the losses incurred due to coronavirus which emerged in Wuhan, China late last year and swelled into a pandemic. “Under international law, China is responsible […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: Mohamed Salah has posted a video of himself working out at home as the Premier League said it hopes to resume training on 11 May and for matches to start during the second week of June. The pictures come after the Liverpool star donated thousands of tonnes of meat and food […]
Continue ReadingMon 20 April 2020: While governments across the globe struggle to increase their testing capabilities after realizing how widespread the COVID-19 pandemic is, Turkey ranked seventh worldwide in carrying out coronavirus tests Turkey became one of the world’s top 10 countries in the number of COVID-19 tests carried out, significantly increasing its capabilities in recent […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: An Austrian professional Mixed Martial Arts [MMA] fighter said he converted to Islam after studying the religion more extensively during his time in quarantine. Wilhelm Ott released a video online on Thursday in which he recites the proclamation of Islam, or the “Shahada”, which officially signifies the start of his journey […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: From cancelled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramadan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. Ramadan is a period for both self-reflection and socialising. Believers fast from dawn to dusk and then gather around a family […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: British premier reportedly missed five key meetings despite ‘perilously poor state of preparation for a pandemic’ An investigative report by British newspaper The Sunday Times rocked the U.K. government Sunday, claiming a series of grave errors were made early in the coronavirus outbreak in late January and February. The piece, titled […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: US crude on Monday fell below $17 a barrel to fresh multi-year lows as the coronavirus pandemic throttles global demand, despite a deal to slash output by major producers. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, was down 7.5 percent to $16.9 a barrel in early Asian trade. International benchmark Brent was […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the source of the outbreak, calling it “impossible”. Beijing has come under increasing pressure over transparency in its handling of the pandemic, with the US probing whether the virus actually originated […]
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