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Trump’s immigration rhetoric aimed at distracting everyone from COVID-19 failure: Biden

3:55 pm April 22, 2020

Washington: Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for the White House Joe Biden has alleged that the immigration rhetoric of President Donald Trump is aimed at distracting everyone from his “failure” in handling the coronavirus crisis which has killed over 45,000 people in the US. The former vice president’s remarks came hours after Trump told reporters that […]

Iran closes businesses, curtails travel amid virus surge

Iran records 88 new virus deaths, has freed prisoners

9:23 pm April 21, 2020

Tehran: Iran on Tuesday announced 88 new deaths from the novel coronavirus as the country said it had released more than 1,000 foreign prisoners over the outbreak. According to health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, the latest fatalities in the past 24 hours brought the total to 5,297, in one of the world’s deadliest outbreaks. The […]

Costa Rica seeks unity for COVID fight as WHO assembly looms

WHO chief insists ‘nothing hidden from US’ on coronavirus

11:58 pm April 20, 2020

Geneva: World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted on Monday that the UN agency had not hidden from the United States any information it had about the coronavirus pandemic. He said the presence of embedded US government secondees working at the WHO headquarters in Geneva “means there is nothing hidden from the US, […]

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 […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Social distancing rules should be same for Ramzan, Easter: Trump

2:31 pm April 19, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has said he hopes US Muslims will be held to the same social distancing standards during Ramzan as Christians at Easter, when a number of faithful chafed against coronavirus-related restrictions on large gatherings. The US president made the comments after being asked to defend a retweet of a conservative commentator who […]