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 […]
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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 […]
KANNAPOLIS: A North Carolina man indicted last month on child pornography charges had searched earlier this year for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s home online, travelled near the home and wrote a checklist that ended with the word “execute”, according to federal court documents. The information was contained in documents […]
Australian police have arrested 44 men across the nation on suspicion of possessing and producing child abuse material. Sixteen children had been “removed from harm” in the process, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The arrests followed a year-long investigation into images and videos that were shared online. Arrests of […]