A rocket attack in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province has killed Two Turkish soldiers Turkey’s defence ministry revealed on friday A ministry statement said a third soldier was wounded in Thursday’s attack, which it said was carried out by “radical groups”. Turkey’s artillery units immediately mounted a powerful retaliation, the ministry said, but did not provide … Read more
The United Nations and nine countries called for peace between Libya’s warring parties to allow health authorities to fight rapidly spreading coronavirus. A “humanitarian truce” was demanded in a joint statement by the ambassadors of Algeria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the European Union delegation … Read more
Richard Zaghari-Ratcliffe the husband of Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has revealed she has been temporarily released in Iran for two weeks on Wednesday Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to the United Kingdom with her daughter … Read more
U.S. Rep Mario Diaz-Balart from the Republican Party on Wednesday tweeted he has tested positive for coronavirus, the first congressman to do so. Diaz-Balart, representing Florida’s 25th district said he was feeling better and advised the public to follow the health authorities’ guidelines to curb the spread of the virus. The 58-year-old congressman said he … Read more
The World Bank has announced the approval of an additional $14 billion packages to assist companies and countries in their efforts to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. According to the bank in a statement, the fast-track financing package will help strengthen national systems for public health preparedness, including for disease containment, diagnosis, and treatment, … Read more
The White House Office of Management and Budget late Tuesday submitted an emergency funding request to Congress for an additional $45.8 billion — a sweeping request for new funds and statutory authority across the federal government to address the growing coronavirus pandemic. The request came on the same day the Trump administration presented a $1 … Read more
In response to new US restrictions on Chinese media China has said it will revoke the credentials of journalists at three American newspapers. Beijing is demanding that US journalists working for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post newspapers, whose credentials are due to expire before the end of 2020, hand back … Read more
President Nicolas Maduro asked the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday for a $5 billion loan to help crisis-worn Venezuela cope with the onslaught of the coronavirus. In a letter to IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, Maduro said a $5 billion loan from the IMF’s Rapid Financing Instrument “will contribute significantly to strengthening our detection and response systems.” The RFI … Read more
In the fight against Civid-19, French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered stringent restrictions on people’s movement to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and said the army would be drafted in to help move the sick to hospitals. In a sombre address to the nation, where the virus has killed 148 people and infected more … Read more
Lebanon’s military court has dropped charges against a former member of an Israel-backed militia accused of supervising the torture of thousands of people at a notorious south Lebanon prison decades ago. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) on Monday reported that the charges against Lebanese American Amer Fakhoury, who was a former member of the … Read more
In a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the White House taskforce on Monday issued 15-day guidelines to limit the spread of the illness in the United States. According to the guidelines, states that have evidence of community spread of the virus should close bars, restaurants and other public spaces where people congregate … Read more
Spanish top-flight club, Valencia, has confirmed that 35% of its players & staff tested positive for coronavirus. The club announced last weekend that players Mangala, Garay and Gaya and two other staff were infected with the coronavirus, however as at the time of this report, things are getting worse. According to the latest report by … Read more
The few people still walking in Madrid’s eerily empty parks on Monday were met by buzzing drones overhead, instructing them to: “Go home!” The Spanish capital, like the rest of the country, is now on partial lockdown in an attempt to stem the worst coronavirus outbreak in Europe after Italy. Spain’s recorded cases have surged … Read more
Kenya has introduced a series of strict measures to curb coronavirus on Sunday, blocking entry to the country to all except citizens and residents and shutting schools as the number of confirmed cases rose to three. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe announced two people who sat next to the first patient on the aeroplane as she … Read more
US Democratic presidential aspirants Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders criticised President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak during a Democratic debate on Sunday, offering competing visions of leadership during a widening crisis that has upended the daily lives of Americans. In their first one-on-one debate, the last two Democratic contenders in the race to … Read more
However, Gantz has so far been cool to the proposal, suggesting he could still try to form a minority government of his own, removing Israel’s longest-serving leader. Israel’s president on Sunday said he has decided to give Gantz the first opportunity to form a new government. President Reuven Rivlin’s office announced his decision late on … Read more
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Chan Kin-man has been freed from prison, he said has no regrets for his leading role in the so-called “Umbrella” civil disobedience movement in 2014. Chan Kin-man a retired sociologist and one of the three leaders of the pro-democracy movement, he was found guilty last year of conspiracy to commit public … Read more
In a move to curb the coronavirus outbreak, The United Kingdom will soon introduce emergency laws to fight the spread of the disease, including banning public gatherings and giving police the power to detain infected people, according to reports. The move would be an escalation of the UK’s crisis plan which critics had said was … Read more
United Nations’ peacekeeping mission have secured the release of a Canadian woman and her Italian partner kidnapped in Burkina Faso in December 2018 in neighbouring Mali and they appear to be in good health. Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto went missing while travelling through Burkina Faso, where armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and … Read more
KLM, the Dutch national carrier, has announced that it will slash over 2,000 jobs as the outbreak of the quickly spreading coronavirus necessitates this move. The airline’s Chief Executive, Pieter Elbers said that the airline that has over 33,000 people in its employ will request that its staff work shorter hours as it will be … Read more