MANILA: Two of the most popular Philippine tourist destinations, including Boracay beach, have partially reopened, drawing only a fraction of their usual huge crowds given continuing COVID-19 restrictions. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Friday (Oct 2) that 35 local tourists, including seven from Manila, came on the first day […]
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who played down the threat of the coronavirus pandemic for months, said today that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for Covid-19 and were going into quarantine, upending the race for the White House. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We […]
An ethnic Armenian soldier fires an artillery piece during fighting with Azerbaijan’s forces in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, September 29. PARIS: Armenia’s leader claimed today to have evidence that Azerbaijani forces currently battling Yerevan’s troops in the Nagorny Karabakh region are being militarily supported by Turkey. At least […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said late yesterday he would go into quarantine after a top aide tested positive for coronavirus, in a shock development that threatened to disrupt his scheduled public appearances in the crucial final weeks of the election campaign. Trump confirmed in an interview with Fox News […]
LUCKNOW: Indian police arrested several opposition leaders today heading for the site where a low-caste woman died after being gang-raped in the latest high-profile assault to whip up nationwide anger and protests. The 19-year-old victim from the Dalit community, which often faces violence and discrimination, died from injuries on Tuesday […]
MADRID: Europe was facing up today to ever-worsening pandemic indicators, notably in Spain, Britain and France, as China revelled in its first post-coronavirus Golden Week holiday, with hundreds of millions on the move around the country. By 1100 GMT today the pandemic had killed at least 1,018,634 people around the […]
MIAMI: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale had 10 guns in his Florida home and his wife accused him of beating her, police said yesterday, after he was dramatically detained outside his house. Parscale allegedly hit his wife, loaded a pistol and threatened to commit suicide during an argument […]
LONDON: Donald Trump’s digital campaign team tried to dissuade millions of African Americans from voting in the 2016 US presidential election, Britain’s Channel 4 News channel alleged in a report broadcast yesterday. The channel’s investigative journalists said they had got hold of a file used by Trump’s team four years […]
WASHINGTON: A report that Donald Trump paid little or no federal income tax in recent years sparked broad outrage yesterday, from rich Democrats to teachers and coffee shop workers taking to social media to claim they had paid more taxes than the US president. The #IPaidMoreTaxesThanDonaldTrump hashtag began trending yesterday, […]
NEW YORK: The percentage of Covid-19 tests taken in New York state that have come back positive has inched up to 1.5 per cent, Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday, a worrisome trend for the former epicentre of the US coronavirus epidemic. New York’s positivity rate had hovered around 1 per […]