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Spain opens border to tourists; Trump wants less testing

7:04 pm June 21, 2020

Barcelona: Spain reopened its borders to European tourists Sunday in a bid to kickstart its economy while Brazil and South Africa struggled with rising coronavirus infections. At a campaign rally, President Donald Trump said he told the US government to reduce testing for the virus, apparently to avoid unflattering statistics ahead of the US election in November. The head of the World […]

UK park stabbings that killed 3 declared terrorist attack

6:51 pm June 21, 2020

London: UK counter-terrorism officers on Sunday declared a stabbing rampage by a Libyan-origin man in a park in the English town of Reading that left three people dead as a terrorist attack. The local Thames Valley Police had initially launched a murder inquiry and said it was keeping an open mind on the motive behind the knife […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

UK PM’s new ‘super department’ will combine aid ministry with Foreign Office

10:23 pm June 16, 2020

London: In a major shake-up of the UK government’s ministerial set-up, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced the merger of the Department for International Development (DfID) with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to create a so-called “super department”. Addressing the House of Commons, Johnson said the move was aimed at a more “coherent” foreign policy approach to the country’s aid budget, which will […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

UK report: Racism means minorities harder hit by virus

8:49 pm June 16, 2020

London: A new study by Public Health England has confirmed that historic racism and social inequalities are contributing factors that increase the risk of black, Asian and minority communities contracting and dying from the coronavirus in the UK. Britain’s government has been under heavy pressure to do more to directly address the issue after data […]

Will provide citizenship to 11 million people if voted to power; says Biden

Trump, Biden spoke by phone about coronavirus outbreak

4:46 am April 7, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump and Joe Biden spoke over the phone Monday afternoon about the coronavirus outbreak, according to a top Biden campaign aide. Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, said in a statement that the two had a “good call.” “Biden shared several suggestions for actions the Administration can take now to address the […]