Sat 18 April 2020: (REUTERS) At least 20 officials working at Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s palace have tested positive for coronavirus, prompting the 70-year-old leader to limit most of his contact with staff to digital communication, government sources said on Saturday. An official document delivered to the Presidential Palace in Kabul is thought to have […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: Turkey’s state-run charity on Friday distributed food and personal hygiene items in Romania to 1,500 needy families. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) dispatched the aid in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. There are 8,067 COVID-19 cases in Romania and the official death toll is 411. The novel coronavirus […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: The United Nations on Friday sent 56 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, a northwestern Syrian province where millions remain in desperate need of assistance. The aid trucks entered Syria through the Cilvegözü border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, which borders Idlib. The supplies will be distributed to people in […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: Global ecommerce company Amazon has donated $300,000 to a non-profit US organisation which is supplying medical equipment to healthcare professionals and patients in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic. The donation by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be made through the Israel Healthcare Foundation, an independent US-based non-profit that seeks to improve healthcare for […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: Militant Hindus spreading hatred and committing crimes against Muslims should be expelled from the Gulf, a Saudi Arabian scholar has said, amid a growing number of hate crimes by Hindu supremacists against India’s Muslim minority. Such attacks have increased during the spread of the coronavirus pandemic as Hindus loyal to the ruling far-right […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: Turkey on Friday confirmed 126 more deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 1,769. The total number of registered coronavirus cases surged to 78,546 as 4,353 more people tested positive for the virus, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said following Coronavirus Science Board meeting in the capital Ankara. So […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: Google said on Friday it would waive fees for publishers using its Ad Manager platform for the next five months as part of its efforts to support news organizations reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. The move comes in addition to Google’s “journalism relief fund” announced this week, which will include emergency […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: The powerful chief of staff to Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, the presidency said Saturday. Buhari’s office announced in a statement that it “regrets to announce the passage” of Abba Kyari, who acted as gatekeeper to the president of Africa’s most populous nation. “The deceased […]
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FILE PHOTO: The shutdown of businesses across India that employed migrants has swelled the number of homeless people. Sat 18 April 2020: Governments around the world are grappling with the question of when to reopen society, seeking a life-and-death balance between unfreezing stalled economies and preventing a second deadly coronavirus wave. Germany became the latest […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: World coronavirus deaths surged past 150,000 Friday as US President Donald Trump accused China of continuing to cover up its toll, even after Beijing revised figures sharply upward for Wuhan, the original epicenter of the global pandemic. COVID-19 fatalities mounted in the United States and hard-hit Western Europe countries, but fresh […]
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