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Wear a mask or face jail in Kuwait, Qatar
Two Middle East countries, Kuwait and Qatar have said that they would start jailing people up to three years or fining them thousands of dollars for failing to wear a facemask. In efforts to…
COVID-19: Spain’s daily death toll drops to 87 — lowest in two months
Spain has recorded less than 100 deaths from COVID-19 complications, the least casualty figure from the disease in the country in two months. The country’s ministry of health said…
Relief in Italy as daily death toll, new case falls
Italy Sunday recorded a decrease in daily death toll and new coronavirus case count for the first time since March. The Civil Protection Agency said its daily death toll from the COVID-19…
Trump’s Ratings on the Virus Are Sagging. Why Isn’t Biden Surging?
It’s been a little over a month since Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and what a month it’s been. Or rather, what a month it hasn’t been.…
Nigerian scammers file bogus jobless claims in U.S., millions of dollars stolen
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a vast fraud ring of suspected Nigerian hackers using bogus unemployment claims to steal hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars intended to help…
COVID-19: Italy to reopen borders next month
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has outlined a further loosening of movement restrictions on Saturday, including opening borders to travellers from Europe from next month. The…
UK trains dogs to detect asymptomatic coronavirus carriers
Could screen 250 people an hour Can already sniff out potential diseases like cancer and malaria The United Kingdom is in the process of training dogs to ‘sniff’ out…
China blocked WHO from issuing alert on COVID-19, says CIA
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says China blocked the World Health Organisation (WHO) from sounding the alarm on COVID-19 in January. According to Newsweek, the intelligence…
Coronavirus drives Germany into recession
Germany is in recession after its economy saw two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The country’s GDP shrank 2.2% in the first quarter of 2020, the German economy’s worst…
China replies to Trump’s threat to cut off ties, urges cooperation
China and the U.S. are better off cooperating to end the pandemic for the sake of reviving economy and rebooting industrial production, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian…
Trump says he doesn’t want to talk to Xi, mulls cutting U.S.-China ties
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he does not want to talk to his Chinese counterpart, and mused about ending the world’s largest trading relationship, amid rising…
Firm reverses plan as France, EU resist idea of U.S. getting COVID-19 vaccine first
FRENCH pharmaceutical firm Sanofi plans to make any vaccine it develops against the novel coronavirus available to all, the company’s director-general, Paul Hudson, explained in a tweet…
Trump pushes for schools to reopen against expert’s caution
UNITED States (U.S.) President Donald Trump has deepened his rift with top medical advisor Anthony Fauci over loosening coronavirus restrictions, saying they…
Record 36.5m Americans jobless
About 36.5 million American workers are now jobless, an unprecedented figure since the U.S. government began tracking unemployment in the 1930s. The figure ballooned to the new…
Social Distancing: This Is How Movie-Goers Will Watch Their Movies At The Cinemas in Dubai
Movie-goers in Dubai frustrated by the closure of cinemas during the coronavirus pandemic will soon be able to watch films from the comfort of their own car at a new drive-in…
FBI says Chinese hackers are targeting U.S vaccine research
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on Wednesday said that China-linked hackers were targeting U.S. research organisations to steal data on vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus.…
Trump rejects Fauci’s caution on reopening America
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected a warning given by top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci about the dangers of reopening the economy and schools too quickly.…
EU pushes to reopen borders amidst coronavirus
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday pushed to reopen internal borders and restart travel ahead summer season despite the increase in coronavirus infections. Despite public fears…
Maria Branyas, ‘Spain’s oldest woman’, beats COVID-19 at 113
Maria Branyas, a 113-year-old believed to be the oldest woman in Spain, has recovered from COVID-19 after being diagnosed with the disease in March. Branyas was said to…
South Korea raises age of consent from 13 to 16
South Korea has raised the age of consent for sex to 16 from 13 as it seeks to strengthen protection for minors following accusations the existing law on sex crimes…
Researchers predict coronavirus end date in U.S., UK, rest of the world
Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design predict that the coronavirus pandemic will end globally early next year. Their prediction is that…
U.S. judge stalls move to free Trump’s ally Michael Flynn
A Washington judge has put on ice the U.S. Justice Department’s extraordinary move to drop its prosecution of former White House national security advisor Michael…
Coronavirus getting weak, may disappear before vaccine: Italian expert
Italian expert, Dr. Giuseppe Remuzzi said coronavirus is nearing its end and “may disappear” before the discovery of a vaccine to stop its spread. Remuzzi is the director of the Mario Negri…
Cash-starved Saudi Arabia cuts oil output, asks OPEC+ do same
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would add to existing oil output cuts by reducing production by another 1 million bpd next month — equivalent to 1% of global oil supply. The cut…