Fri 10 April 2020: The number of coronavirus cases in Israel has neared 10,000 and the death toll stands at 86, the country’s Health Ministry said Thursday. The ministry said six people died and 213 more tested positive for COVID-19, raising the total number of cases to 9,968. It said 166 of the nearly 10,000 […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: (REUTERS) Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists say, a scenario that spells catastrophe for Karan Kumar, a struggling day labourer in the capital. Living in cramped quarters at a construction site where activity has […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: Turkey on Friday sent medical supplies to Libya to help fight the novel coronavirus, which has infected 1.6 million people worldwide and claimed nearly 96,000 lives in 185 countries. “At the direction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of the preventative measures against COVID-19 virus, medical supplies were sent to […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: The isolated camp of Rukban in southeast Syria faces tremendous challenges as it prepares for a potential outbreak of the coronavirus. In this refugee settlement surrounded by desert, months pass without aid. The last major aid delivery was in February 2019, and residents live off basic food supplies and medical equipment […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: New York City officials have hired contract laborers to bury the dead in its potter’s field on Hart Island as the city’s daily death rate from the coronavirus epidemic has reached grim new records in each of the last three days. The city has used Hart Island to bury New Yorkers […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: (REUTERS) China has drawn up new guidelines to reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, the agriculture ministry said, part of a response to the coronavirus outbreak that the Humane Society called a potential “game changer” in animal welfare. Though dog meat remains a delicacy in many regions, the Ministry of […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday for the Security Council to unite in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “the fight of a generation – and the ‘raison d’être’ of the United Nations itself.” “A signal of unity and resolve from the Council would count for a lot at […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: The Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) plans to lend Tunisia $280 million to tackle the coronavirus crisis, a government source told Reuters on Thursday, as part of an urgent aid package to support member states. The bank said on Twitter that the bank had allocated $2.3 billion to help member states […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: (REUTERS) Russia on Thursday reported a record one-day rise in cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing the official tally to more than 10,000, a day after President Vladimir Putin said the coming weeks would prove decisive in the fight against the virus. The number of cases jumped by 1,459 and 13 […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: This afternoon’s crunch meeting between oil cartel Opec and Russia could send shockwaves through global energy markets and send oil prices spiking or crashing. For weeks oil prices have been in freefall due to a production war between de facto Opec leader Saudi Arabia and Russia. The pair are stuck in […]
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