Thu 09 April 2020: The Gaza Strip has no more coronavirus test kits, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday, amid fears of disaster if the illness spreads in the blockaded, densely packed enclave. “Testing at our central laboratory has stopped, after coronavirus test kits completely ran out,” Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said. The […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: (AFP) The global chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday for the first time explicitly blamed Syria for toxic attacks, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s air force used the nerve gas sarin and chlorine three times in 2017. The findings came in the first report from a new investigative team set up by the […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: With 110,000 peacekeepers deployed in more than a dozen countries around a world now ravaged by the coronavirus, the United Nations faces twin challenges: keeping those soldiers safe and, more importantly, persuading governments not to bring them home. One fear is that of a “stampede effect,” in the words of one […]
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Officials check the ventilators allocated for early treatment of coronavirus (COVID-19) on 4 April 2020 [Elif Öztürk/Anadolu Agency] Wed 08 April 2020: Al-Quds University in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem has succeeded in constructing a fully-computerised and low-cost medical ventilator to be used for patients infected with the coronavirus. The ventilator, which will be ready […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: More than 600 Iranians have died from the consumption of high-concentrated alcohol believing it protects against the coronavirus. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary, Ghulam Hussein Ismaili, as saying that the number of deaths due to drinking neat alcohol had reached a disturbing figure, adding that more […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: The clues to the crossword are loaded to criticise the Tablighi Jamaat and praise PM Narendra Modi. If you thought solving puzzles could be fun during the lockdown, Dainik Bhaskar, one of the biggest Hindi dailies, has other plans for you. In an attempt to further communalise the coronavirus pandemic in India, […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: The Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, has pardoned 599 prisoners jailed for various offenses, including 336 foreigners, the state-run Oman News Agency said on Twitter on Wednesday. The tweet did not say if the release was related to the coronavirus outbreak or the holy month of Ramadan, which starts […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: (Reuters) – Being overweight is a major risk for people infected with the new coronavirus and the United States is particularly vulnerable because of high obesity levels there, France’s chief epidemiologist said on Wednesday. Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on the epidemic, said as […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: (REUTERS) Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani urged the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday to give the country its requested $5 billion emergency funding to help Tehran fight the coronavirus outbreak. “I urge international organisations to fulfill their duties … we are a member of the IMF … There should be no discrimination […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: What is the role of art and technology in repression and resistance, and how can community combat social breakdown? On this episode of Studio B: Unscripted, award-winning illustrator and writer Molly Crabapple is in conversation with best-selling author and journalist Paul Mason. Molly Crabapple has chronicled the stories of the marginalised while […]
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