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

Trump directs halt to payments to WHO during coronavirus pandemic

8:01 am April 15, 2020

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the virus from spreading when it first surfaced in China. Trump, who had telegraphed his intentions last week, claimed the outbreak could have […]

Italy’s virus death toll tops 20,000

1:40 am April 14, 2020

Rome: Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 20,000 on Monday but its number of critically ill patients dropped for the tenth successive day as its rate of infections slowed. The 566 new deaths reported by the civil protection service takes Italy’s fatalities total to 20,465 — officially second in the world behind the […]

Sailor from US aircraft carrier dies of COVID-19

1:04 am April 14, 2020

Washington: A sailor who was aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier died Monday of COVID-19, the first fatality from nearly 600 confirmed cases among its crew, the US Navy said Monday. The sailor, who tested positive on March 30, was discovered unresponsive on April 9 and placed in the intensive care unit of the […]

Virus ‘disaster in the making’ in war-torn Syria

3:26 pm April 13, 2020

Paris: As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. The outbreak has infected more than 1.8 million people and killed more than 112,000 around the world since emerging in China […]

Fauci says 'rolling reentry' of US economy possible in May

Reopening of US could probably start next month, says America’s top doctor

12:59 am April 13, 2020

Washington: America’s reopening could probably start at least in some ways next month, a top member of the White House Task Force on coronavirus said on Sunday as the US battles one of the worst public health crises in a century. For weeks now, over 95 per cent of 330 million American population are under […]