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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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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