WASHINGTON: The Republican-controlled US Senate handed President Donald Trump a major pre-election political victory yesterday by confirming his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, with the White House planning a celebratory event afterward. The Senate voted 52-48, with Democrats unified in opposing Barrett’s confirmation, which creates a 6-3 conservative majority […]
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ROME: Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi said yesterday organised crime groups planned to kill her and her family because she was taking them on in parts of the Italian capital where they hold sway. Raggi became the Eternal City’s first-ever woman mayor when she was elected in 2016 in a major […]
MILAN: The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose new curbs. The gloom weighed on global financial markets yesterday as surging infections clouded the economic […]
DUBAI: Iran extended Covid-19 curbs in Tehran and across the country today as health authorities said they were recording a death from the virus every four minutes. Some hospitals had run out of beds to treat new patients, the head of the national coronavirus task-force told state TV. “Our doctors […]
BERLIN: Germany has suffered more than 10,000 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to official data published on Saturday (Oct 24). A total of 10,003 deaths have been recorded by the Robert Koch Institute, a federal government agency, with 418,005 infections recorded nationwide. Of those, 14,714 were […]
FLORIDA: US President Donald Trump promised supporters in Florida on Friday (Oct 23) that the COVID-19 pandemic would end soon and accused Democratic rival Joe Biden of overstating the health crisis to scare Americans into voting for him. The pandemic, which has killed more than 224,000 people in the United […]
GENEVA: The world is now at a critical juncture in the COVID-19 pandemic and some countries are on a dangerous path, facing the prospect of health services collapsing under the strain, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday (Oct 23). “We are at a critical juncture in […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s Victoria state – the epicentre of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak – on Friday (Oct 23) reported that active coronavirus cases have fallen to a four-month low, paving the way for an acceleration in the easing of social distancing curbs. The nation’s second-most populous state, which recorded just one […]
SHANGHAI: China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd reported a 9.9 per cent rise in nine-month revenue on Friday, as US export restrictions and the global COVID-19 pandemic weakened sales growth in products such as smartphones and telecoms equipment. Revenue reached 671.3 billion yuan (US$100.44 billion) over January-September, it said in a […]
NASHVILLE: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden renewed his attacks on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s (Oct 22) final debate, seeking to bolster his lead in opinion polls with 12 days to go to the Nov 3 election. Trump, a Republican, initially adopted a more restrained […]