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Italy enters strict 3-day lockdown over Easter

China virus cases stabilise as Italy sees drop in deaths

1:06 pm June 28, 2020

Beijing: China has extended COVID-19 tests to newly reopened salons amid a drop in cases, while South Korea continues to face new infections after it eased social distancing rules to lift the economy. In the US, Vice President Mike Pence called off off a planned campaign bus tour in Florida following a surge in confirmed cases there. Hard-hit Italy, meanwhile, registered the […]

US and South Korea agree on new cost-sharing deal for troops

Stocks edge higher on Wall Street following mixed data

9:57 pm June 25, 2020

Washington DC: Stocks edged higher on Wall Street in early trading Thursday as investors weigh a mixed batch of economic reports highlighting the damage that the coronavirus lockdowns have inflicted on the economy. The S&P 500 was up 0.2 per cent, recovering from an initial slide of 0.9 per cent. Gains in the financial, energy […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Surging US coronavirus cases raise fear that progress is slipping

8:18 am June 23, 2020

ST PETERSBURG: Alarming surges in coronavirus cases across the U.S. South and West raised fears Monday that the outbreak is spiraling out of control and that hard-won progress against the scourge is slipping away because of resistance among many Americans to wearing masks and keeping their distance from others. Confirming predictions that the easing of […]

Hollywood power publicist and pal to stars Nanci Ryder dies

10:52 pm June 12, 2020

Los Angeles: Nanci Ryder, a powerful Hollywood publicist and co-founder of BWR Public Relations who became close to such stars as Renée Zellweger and Courteney Cox, died Thursday of Lou Gehrig’s disease in Los Angeles. She was 67. Ryder was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — or ALS — in 2014. The neurodegenerative disease gradually […]

COVID-19: 44 Texas University students test positive after spring break trip

5:35 pm April 2, 2020

Houston: Forty four students of the University of Texas in the US have tested positive for COVID-19 after they returned from a spring break trip to Mexico, avoiding social-distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic. The university, which is in Austin, had previously confirmed only 28 coronavirus cases. About 70 students flew on a chartered plane […]