North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance since speculation about his health began last month, cutting the ribbon at the opening of a fertilizer factory, KCNA reported Saturday. Kim “attended the ceremony” on Friday and “all the participants broke into thunderous cheers of ‘hurrah!’” when he appeared, the Korean Central … Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday has announced the experimental drug remdesivir authorized by US regulators for emergency use against coronavirus. It comes after the antiviral made by Gilead Sciences was shown in a major clinical trial to shorten the time to recovery in some coronavirus patients, the first time any medicine has had a proven … Read more
A 31-year-old woman slipped on the grass and fell from a 115-foot cliff to her death while posing for a picture in Turkey. Kazakh native Olesya Suspitsyna perished in front of her female friend who was taking the photograph in the tourist city of Antalya in the south-west of the country. The incident occurred on … Read more
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened new tariffs against Beijing after claiming there is evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China’s ground-zero city of Wuhan. Asked if he had seen anything giving him a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of the outbreak, Trump replied, … Read more
Bollywood is mourning its second big loss after the death of leading Indian actor Rishi Kapoor at the age of 67. Rishi Kapoor, who built a career as one of Bollywood’s romantic heroes, has died of leukaemia. Kapoor, part of one of Bollywood’s most famous families, was admitted to hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday and … Read more
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Wednesday he has a proud history of campaigning against sexual violence, as he faces mounting pressure to respond to an assault allegation made by a former aide. The presumptive Democratic nominee has been accused by Tara Reade of assaulting her in 1993, when she was a 29-year-old staff assistant in … Read more
The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had revised the order of lockdown and order the restoration of commercial activities in malls and other trading firms. The government decided this by providing 13 rules in accordance with coronavirus precautionary measures as they are also planning to reopen the two prophet sacred mosques soon before … Read more
Two prison guards and five inmates died during an attempted jail break and ensuing riot in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Wednesday, the police said. The colonial-era prison, Pademba Road Prison was set ablaze Wednesday morning by inmates6quitey6p and security officers was dispatched to secure the scene. Details about the cause of the violence were … Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November. The Republican president, often accused of not acting early enough to prepare the United States for the outbreak, said he believed China should have … Read more
Irrfan Kahn, the Indian-born actor who found fame in Hollywood as well as Bollywood, has died aged 53. The actor had recently been admitted to the intensive care unit of Mumbai’s Kokilaben hospital with a colon infection. The actor has struggled with health issues over recent years, in 2018 Kahn revealed that he had been … Read more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, have announced the birth of a baby boy. Ms Symonds gave birth to, “a healthy baby boy at a London hospital this morning”, their spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman added that both mother and baby were doing well. Mr Johnson returned to work earlier this week … Read more
The 15-man medical team which arrived in Nigeria from China on April 8, have all tested negative to the coronavirus, following the mandatory 14-day quarantine. The Minister for Health, Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Tuesday during the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19. News that the Chinese experts were coming into the country had split … Read more
Germany has pledged another financial intervention to assist Nigeria in its effort at combating the coronavirus pandemic, which has paralysed most activities, In a statement via Twitter on Tuesday, the country said it is providing €5.5 million this time to support vulnerable people in Nigeria’s North-Eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. The statement read … Read more
Britain’s health minister on Tuesday raised alarm at signs of a coronavirus-related syndrome emerging in children but stressed it needed more research and remained very rare. The state-run National Health Service (NHS) issued an alert at the weekend about a small number of children presenting an unusual set of symptoms, including abdominal pain and inflammation … Read more
Over 700 people in Iran have died from ingesting toxic methanol because erroneous rumours says it helps cure the coronavirus, officials have said. In a desperate search for a curative, many families have drifted to fake remedies circulate across social media – including a powerful form of bootleg alcohol banned in the Islamic Republic. Iranian … Read more
The spread of COVID-19 risks devastating countries across East Africa, where food insecurity could more than double in just three months, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that some 20 million people currently do not have secure provisions of food across nine countries in the region: Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, … Read more
Equity markets on Monday experienced an increase as governments across the world started to ease coronavirus lockdown measures, but oil prices tumbled as a supply glut overwhelmed output cuts. US markets followed Asia and Europe higher after virus figures from some of the worst-hit countries provided hope that the peak of the crisis may have … Read more
US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to confirm that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is alive, saying he wished him well after days of speculation over the dictator’s whereabouts. Asked if he had new information about Kim’s health, Trump said “yes, I do have a very good idea, but I can’t talk about … Read more
More than three million cases of coronavirus have been officially registered across the world, with nearly 80 percent in Europe and the United States, according to a tally by AFP at 2050 GMT Monday using official figures. At least 3,003,344 infections have been detected, including 209,388 deaths, mostly in Europe where there are 1,393,779 cases … Read more
South Korea Officials has called for caution amidst reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is dead, or ill emphasising that they have detected no unusual movements across the border in the north. In a closed-door forum on Sunday, South Korea’s Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, who is in charge of engagement with the North, … Read more