GENEVA: The World Health Organisation today urged Russia to follow the established guidelines for producing safe and effective vaccines after Moscow announced plans to start swiftly producing Covid-19 jabs. Russia said yesterday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine in September and turn out “several million” doses […]
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Twenty-nine new deaths were reported over the same period, bringing the country’s total toll to 30,294. PARIS: France could “at any moment” lose control over the spread of the coronavirus, the government’s Covid-19 scientific council warned today as official data showed the first rise in intensive care patients since […]
The White House said in a statement the order will “create a policy where Federal agencies will focus on United States labor in lucrative Federal contracts” as it will be :unfair” for federal government agencies to “ replace perfectly qualified Americans with workers from other countries”. President Donald Trump signed […]
President Moon Jae-in was set to hold an emergency meeting today, after he had urged national and regional authorities to ‘make all-out efforts to prevent further loss of life’ the previous day. SEOUL: Days of heavy rain caused floods in South Korea that have forced more than 1,000 people […]
Donald Trump has said the US should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if it is bought by an American firm. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s […]
Hurricane Isaias has blasted in to North Carolina, crossing the coast 40 miles (65km) south-west of Wilmington. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) posted a statement on social media saying that Isaias made landfall at 23:10 EDT (03:10 GMT Tuesday). It added that the hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 85mph […]
FILE PHOTO: AirAsia planes are seen parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2, during the movement control order due to the outbreak of COVID-19, in Sepang, Malaysia on Apr 14, 2020. KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia is gearing up for the resumption of flights between Malaysia and Singapore, including the Kuala […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second-most populous state Victoria said on Tuesday (Aug 4) military personnel will be deployed to enforce COVID-19 isolation orders, with anyone caught in breach of those rules facing tough new fines. Five hundred military personnel will be deployed to the state to bolster enforcement of self-isolation orders, with […]
The two countries have already exchanged several tit-for-tat actions involving journalists in recent months, with the US designating multiple Chinese state or Communist Party-backed media as foreign embassies. SHANGHAI: China will take retaliatory measures if all Chinese journalists based in the United States are forced to leave the country, […]
Lunchbox, books, pencil case — masks? Thousands of children in northern Germany became the first in Europe to begin a new school year on Monday after months of curtailed hours over the coronavirus pandemic. The rest of the country was watching anxiously as 150,000 children returned to school in Mecklenburg-Western […]