WASHINGTON: The United States notched a record number of new coronavirus cases yesterday, for the first time topping 90,000 diagnoses in 24 hours, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country, which has seen a resurgence of its Covid-19 outbreak since mid-October, recorded 91,295 new cases in the […]
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WASHINGTON: The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an “unrelenting” rise in Covid-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states yesterday reported record daily increases in new infections. The hardest-hit regions in the West and Midwest encompass […]
PARIS: France and Germany moved yesterday toward shutting down sectors of their economies as part of accelerating efforts worldwide to check a resurgent coronavirus and still limit the financial fallout. Hundreds of thousands of new infections took the known global caseload past 44.5 million with nearly 1.2 million deaths, as […]
Over the last seven months, many of us have become used to the existential horror of Zoom calls with our colleagues. The prurient thrill of glimpsing their book collection, or the dirty laundry on their bedroom floor, has given way to a sort of Groundhog Day of socially-isolated sadness, as […]
NEW YORK: New York and other parts of the northeastern United States, which have kept the coronavirus outbreak under control after being an early epicenter in the country, are now seeing a worrying rise in infections. While the number of new cases is far from the high levels currently seen […]
LONDON: The cancellation of England’s game against the Barbarians because of COVID protocol breaches made rugby a laughing stock and his team have a responsibility to put the smile back on fans’ faces, England coach Eddie Jones said on Thursday. On the day the RFU was bringing charges against the […]
LAS VEGAS: A charity bout between former champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr next month is being billed as an exhibition but both boxers described it as war on Thursday (Oct 29), promising to hold nothing back even if they have to fight under women’s rules. The boxing greats, […]
ANTWERP, Belgium: Belgian league leaders Antwerp secured a shock 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan extended their unbeaten run to 23 games as they won 3-0 against Sparta Prague in the Europa League on Thursday (Oct 29), while Arsenal cruised to a 3-0 win over Dundalk. Veteran striker […]
TAMPA: Donald Trump and Joe Biden dueled over the crucial state of Florida yesterday, painting radically different visions of the United States as big new GDP figures showed the economy getting back on track even as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates again. With Trump touting an early end to the health […]
NICE: A knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside a church in Nice on the French Riviera yesterday. The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an Islamist extremist, after the […]