NEW DELHI: India on Monday (Jun 29) banned 59 Chinese mobile apps, including the wildly popular TikTok and WeChat, over national security and privacy concerns just weeks after a deadly Himalayan border clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Relations between the world’s two most populous nations have been strained following the […]
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SYDNEY: The death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million people on Sunday (Jun 28), according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave. The respiratory illness caused […]
BEIJING: China imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in Hebei province to contain a fresh COVID-19 cluster on Sunday (Jun 28), as authorities warned the outbreak was still “severe and complicated”. After China largely brought the coronavirus under control, hundreds have been infected in Beijing and […]
BRUSSELS: A global fundraising meeting on Saturday (Jun 27) raised €6.15 billion (US$6.9 billion ) from the United States, the European Commission and numerous countries to fight COVID-19, with many participants stressing that an eventual vaccine should be available to anyone who needs it. The pledging summit, part of a […]
BEIJING: Global coronavirus cases neared 10 million on Sunday (Jun 28), according to a Reuters tally, marking a major milestone in the spread of the respiratory disease that has so far killed almost half a million people in seven months. The figure is roughly double the number of severe influenza […]
Fun-seekers out and about on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida on Jun 26, 2020 – itching for a good time after months of lockdown MIAMI: Florida on Saturday (Jun 27) hit a new daily coronavirus case record of nearly 10,000 – a dramatic setback that several other states […]
ANAHEIM, California: Workers at California’s Disneyland Resort protested from their cars on Saturday (Jun 27), arguing that the Walt Disney has not agreed to adequate protections for employees when the destination reopens to the public amid a pandemic. The company had planned to welcome guests back to Disneyland and neighboring […]
HOUSTON: America’s top infectious diseases expert has warned the United States is facing a “serious problem” from a resurgent coronavirus as the illness puts the brakes on reopening two of the country’s largest states. Texas and Florida closed bars and reimposed other curbs on Friday (Jun 26) as the number […]
MADRID: Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday (Jun 26). The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, […]
JERUSALEM: Israeli air force jets have struck Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired on Friday (Jun 26) from the territory towards Israel, the army said. The exchange came after Hamas, an Islamist movement, warned that Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank amounted […]