Mon 13 April 2020: An Indian national working in the UAE has been sacked by his company for allegedly sharing Islamophobic posts on Facebook related to the coronavirus pandemic, in yet another such case within weeks, according to a media report. Bala Krishna Nakka from Hyderabad, working as Chief Accountant at Dubai’s Moro Hub Data […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad have launched a campaign to support and highlight the condition of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Part of the campaign will be a video seminar, at 16.00 BST on Tuesday, 14 April 2020. Watch the video below for more details, or visit palabroad.org. In solidarity with […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia might need to call in the army to help tackle the coronavirus crisis and warned the contagion was getting worse after the number of confirmed cases rose by a record daily amount. Russia reported 2,558 new cases on Monday, bringing the overall […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: (Reuters) – The head of the World Health Organization voiced confidence on Monday that the United States would continue funding his U.N. agency which is leading the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite criticism by President Donald Trump. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, also said that countries in Europe that […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: The outbreak has infected more than 1.8 million people and killed more than 112,000 around the world since emerging in China in December last year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), less than two-thirds of hospitals were up and running at the end of 2019 and 70 percent of healthcare workers […]
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A wrong notion that liquor improves immunity to fight the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has sent Iran’s already stressed health care system into a tizzy. Sources told Anadolu Agency that the alarming trend of consuming alcohol to battle the virus has been reported in at least 26 provinces. The maximum cases have been reported in […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: A former Israeli chief rabbi has died after contracting the coronavirus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, in what is the country’s highest-profile death from the pandemic. Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who served from 1993 to 2003 as the state’s top chaplain for Sephardim, or Jews of Middle Eastern and North African […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: Situation becoming grimmer in UK as death toll surpasses 10,000 As the coronavirus pandemic continues to expand across the globe and the death toll steadily rises, the U.K. might become the worst-hit country in Europe, according to some experts. The country has been in a lockdown for the past three weeks […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: Abidjan official thanks former Galatasaray and Chelsea star for his ‘act of patriotism’ Former football star Didier Drogba has offered his hospital in his native Ivory Coast as a treatment center for novel coronavirus patients, local press reported over the weekend. The hospital, located in the city of Abidjan, is named […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: A further 669 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Africa in a span of 12 hours on Sunday, bringing the continent-wide tally to 13,814, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The figure, it said, showed a substantial increase in the last 12 hours as 445 new cases were […]
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