Sat 04 April 2020: The global death toll from coronavirus crossed 60,000 on Saturday, according to figures compiled by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University. The virus known as COVID-19, which emerged in Wuhan, China last December, has spread to at least 181 countries and regions around the globe, while confirmed cases have exceeded 1.1 million. With […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: Far from waging ‘CoronaJihad’ as some right-wing politicians are alleging, the Jamaat is anathema to the Salafi ideologies of organisations like Al Qaeda and ISIS, who condemn it as having destroyed Islamic jihad. If there is one thing that does not define the Tablighi Jamaat, it is jihad as we know it in […]
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The Families for Freedom group say they were ‘demanding freedom for all the country’s sons and daughters’, across the strret of the UN headquarters in Geneva. FILE PHOTO Sat 04 April 2020: UN rights office spokesman urges Assad regime to release sufficient numbers of detainees amid COVID-19 The UN human rights office on Friday described […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has pledged up to 9 billion riyals ($2.4 billion) to be disbursed towards paying part of the wages of private-sector workers, Reuters reported, in an effort to curb layoffs at companies amid the country’s COVID-19 outbreak. Last month, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan unveiled a 120 billion riyal ($32 billion) stimulus […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus, but ordered in soldiers to support the residents. Emergency regulations approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet late on Thursday declared Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, a “restricted zone” due to its high […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: The White House says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that Americans cover their faces when leaving their homes, especially around other people. But President Donald Trump is calling it “voluntary” and says he himself will not wear a mask. “I’m choosing not to do it,” he said […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: (REUTERS) With the coronavirus contagion spreading, the White House said on Friday that anyone expected to be near President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence will be given a rapid COVID-19 test out of an abundance of caution. The test is expected to be the same quick-action test that Trump […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: Recent study urges collaborative action among African countries to help mitigate economic impact of pandemic Africa is expected to see a dip in its GDP growth rate of between five and eight percentage points, due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, a study warned. “Africa’s economies could experience a loss of between […]
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The blood donation pocess lasts 45 minutes on avarage. (Courtesy of the Turkish Red Crescent). Sat 04 April 2020: The latest quest for a treatment for the rapidly spreading coronavirus dives deep into human blood and is using the most powerful part of it to see if the disease’s survivors could hold the key to […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres renewed his appeal for a global ceasefire and said that warring parties must lay down their arms as the coronavirus is “the biggest threat that humankind is facing at the present moment.” Guterres, who spoke to Al Arabiya’s New York Bureau Chief Talal al-Haj on Friday, […]
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