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Widow of John Glenn, first American to orbit earth, dies of COVID-19 at 100
Annie Glenn, US philanthropist and the widow of John Glenn, a pioneering American astronaut, has passed away at 100, four years after her senator husband died. According to Reuters, Annie breathed…
Ex-Mexican president’s son commits suicide
A son of Mexico’s former president Luis Echeverria Alvarez, who governed in the 1970s with an iron fist, has killed himself, authorities said Tuesday. Alvaro Echeverria Zuno, 71, died on Tuesday morning at his home in the state of…
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over Covid-19 handling
UNITED States (U.S.) President Donald Trump has threatened to permanently pull funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO), if it does not commit to “major substantive…
China develops coronavirus drug
A Chinese laboratory has developed a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The drug now being tested by scientists at China’s prestigious…
U.S House Speaker Pelosi calls Trump ‘morbidly obese’
U.S Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has described President Trump as being “morbidly obese”. This, she said while answering questions from CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on her thoughts on…
Trump hooked on COVID-19 drug hydroxychloroquine without prescription
U.S. President Donald Trump admitted on Monday that he has been on self-medication for about 10 days, taking the malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine. He told reporters he has been taking it…
A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis
Even by President Donald Trump’s standards, it was a rampage: He attacked a government whistleblower who was telling Congress that the coronavirus pandemic had been…
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.…