WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump promised on Monday (Jul 20) to resume televised coronavirus briefings and spoke out in favour of mask-wearing – a marked change of tune as polls show him headed for election disaster. With only just over 100 days until the election against Democrat Joe Biden, Trump […]
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TURIN: Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice, the first a penalty awarded for handball, to give Juventus a 2-1 win over Lazio which put them on the brink of a ninth successive Serie A title on Monday (Jul 20). Ronaldo broke the deadlock in the 51st minute, his 50th Serie A goal, […]
WASHINGTON: African-American children in the United States have a 3.5 times greater risk of dying from an operation than white kids, according to a study published on Monday (Jul 20) based on tens of thousands of children. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio focused exclusively on children who were […]
NEW YORK: This spring, as countries around the world told people to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, doctors in neonatal intensive care units were noticing something strange: Premature births were falling, in some cases drastically. It started with doctors in Ireland and Denmark. Each team, unaware […]
HOUSTON: Chevron said on Monday (Jul 20) it would buy oil and gas producer Noble Energy for about US$5 billion in stock, the first big energy deal since the coronavirus crisis crushed global fuel demand and sent crude prices to historic lows. The oil price crash has decimated shares of […]
WASHINGTON: The US Commerce Department on Monday (Jul 20) added to its economic blacklist 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it called human rights violations in connection with China’s treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang. The department said the companies were involved in using forced labor by Uighurs and other Muslim […]
WASHINGTON: The US Congress appears to be the target of a foreign disinformation campaign aimed at influencing lawmakers’ activities and the upcoming presidential contest, top Democrats said in a letter released on Monday (Jul 20). In the letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray dated on Jul 13, House Speaker Nancy […]
BOGOTA: Colombia’s confirmed cases of coronavirus topped 200,000 on Monday, the health ministry said, while deaths from the disease reached 6,929 as the Andean country continues a months-long lockdown meant to stem infections. Colombia now has a total of 204,005 cases, still well behind other Latin American countries like Brazil, […]
RIYADH: This year’s Haj, which has been scaled back dramatically to include only about 1,000 Muslim pilgrims as Saudi Arabia battles a coronavirus surge, will begin on Jul 29, authorities said on Monday (Jul 20). About 2.5 million people from all over the world usually participate in the ritual that […]
PARIS: Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published on Monday (Jul 20) that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. In some regions they are already caught in a vicious downward spiral, with shrinking sea ice cutting […]