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France virus toll tops 20,000 after 547 new deaths: official

11:49 pm April 20, 2020

Paris: France on Monday announced that more than 20,000 people had now died from the coronavirus in the country after 547 new deaths, even as tentative signs grew that the epidemic was steadying. “Tonight, our country has passed a barrier that is symbolic and particularly painful,” top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, announcing a […]

Tanker's impossible voyage signals new sanction evasion ploy

Oil prices collapse on storage fears, Asia equities mixed

3:32 pm April 20, 2020

Hong Kong: Oil prices collapsed to more than two-decade lows Monday as traders grow concerned that storage facilities are reaching their limits, while equities were mixed, with some support coming from signs that the coronavirus may have peaked in Europe and the United States. US crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate briefly plunged almost 20 percent […]

Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels exchange prisoners

2:56 pm April 17, 2020

Kyiv: Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels exchanged 34 prisoners Thursday in the latest trade aimed at creating conditions that could lead to the end of the six-year war in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian president’s office said. Ukraine took back 20 of its citizens in the swap with the two separatist entities in the rebel-controlled east, […]

UK airlifts 268 stranded foreign nationals

12:45 am April 16, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Amid the nation-wide lockdown, the first flight from Kerala to the UK took off on Wednesday evening with 268 tourists who had been stranded in south India since the coronavirus pandemic put a check on public transportation. The British Airways plane left the state capital at 7.30 pm with London as the destination and […]

US concerned by China's ongoing attempts to 'intimidate' neighbours: White House

G7 to discuss coronavirus pandemic on Thursday: White House

11:54 pm April 15, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump and other G7 leaders will discuss international coordination of the coronavirus response by video conference on Thursday, the White House said. The remote meeting convened by Trump follows up on another virtual summit held last month and comes as the leading world economies remain under lockdown due to the pandemic. Trump […]