International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach walks with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the ‘One Year to Go’ ceremony celebrating one year out from the start of the summer games on July 24, 2019. (Reuters) Mon 20 April 2020: A Japanese expert who has criticised the country’s response to the coronavirus warned Monday that […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: A post-American, post-liberal world order awaits us. But what shape will it take? Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a general feeling that the world is at an historical turning point, that nothing will ever be the same again. The realists ponder and the (neo)liberals bemoan the comeback of […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: As the coronavirus strangleholds the world, we look back in time, into Ibn Sina’s scientific discoveries. With expertise in many fields, from medicine and astronomy to mathematics and theology, Ibn Sina was a Muslim polymath and the father of early modern medicine. Also known as Avicenna in the West, he was […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah on Sunday announced seven new cases of COVID-19 in the occupied West Bank, which brings up the total number in Palestine to 431, the Palestine Information Centre reported. Minister of Health, Dr. Mai al-Kaila, said in a statement this morning that seven Palestinian citizens have tested […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: A Turkish state-run agency has provided protective gear to the Kingdom of Lesotho to help the Southern African country curb the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) distributed sanitizers, gloves and masks to the Lesotho Disaster Management Team, according to a statement released on Sunday. The […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: The global tally of recoveries from coronavirus exceeded 600,000 on Sunday. According to running data compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University, a total of 602,793 recoveries were recorded across the globe, while over 161,330 people have died from the pandemic. In total, more than 2.34 million have contracted the disease. […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: Saudi Arabia’s coronavirus daily case numbers have more than doubled over the past few days due to mass field testing, according to the health ministry. Just last week, the Kingdom was recording about 500 new cases every 24 hours. But since Friday, when the health minister announced that medical teams had […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: US congresswoman Ilhan Omar proposed on Friday a bill to cancel payments of rent and mortgages for millions of Americans struggling to meet costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Minnesota Democratic representative’s proposed legislation would include full payment forgiveness, with no accumulation of debt for renters or homeowners and no negative impact on people’s credit rating or rental history, […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: Morocco, Kuwait, Qatar and Lebanon on Saturday updated data on the novel coronavirus pandemic in each country, Anadolu Agency reports. Morocco’s Health Ministry said two more patients died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 137. Morocco’s case count rose to 2,670 on Saturday, while 298 have recovered in the country so […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: The British government has admitted a shortage of crucial masks and gowns for healthcare staff as it faces mounting criticism from doctors and medical workers amid the coronavirus outbreak. Medical workers treating patients who have the highly contagious COVID-19 disease have criticised a government suggestion to re-use personal protective equipment, or […]
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