SOFIA: Thousands of Bulgarians gathered for a fourth day on Sunday (Jul 12) in Sofia and other cities to protest against corruption and demand the resignation of the conservative government. Over 3,000 protesters shouted “Mafia” and “Resign” outside the government headquarters in Sofia and marched to parliament. The protests in […]
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LA PAZ: Bolivia’s economy minister said on Sunday (Jul 12) that he tested positive for COVID-19, making him the fourth Cabinet member with the virus, in addition to the country’s interim president who is in quarantine. Economy Minister Oscar Ortiz joins the ranks of the ministers of health and mining, […]
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority on Sunday (Jul 12) imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try and rein in rising COVID-19 numbers. “Travel will be prohibited daily from 8pm to 6am in all governorates,” as well as from Thursday evening […]
SHANGHAI: China will show “zero tolerance” towards securities and accounting fraud and will step up a crackdown on major capital-markets crimes, financial regulators said after a meeting of the Financial Stability Development Committee. The meeting on Sunday (Jul 12) was chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, the Cabinet-equivalent State Council […]
SYDNEY: An Australian man who pleaded guilty to killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting in 2019 has decided to represent himself a month ahead of the sentencing hearing, the court said on Monday (Jul 13). Brenton Tarrant pleaded guilty earlier this year to 51 charges of […]
SAN DIEGO: Flames raged for hours on Sunday (Jul 12) aboard a US warship docked at Naval Base San Diego, sending 21 people to the hospital with minor injuries and prompting a relocation of two other Navy vessels moored nearby, military and local fire officials said. The San Diego Fire-Rescue […]
LONDON: The coronavirus pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned on Monday (Jul 13). The British charity cited UNESCO data showing that in April, 1.6 billion young people […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday (Jul 12), with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours. The biggest increases were in the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to a daily report. The previous WHO record for […]
TOKYO: The US dollar started the week with a soft tone on Monday (Jul 13) as investors looked to looming economic data from around the world and US corporate earnings to gauge whether the markets’ guarded optimism on the economic outlook is justified. The greenback ended its third week of […]
ORLANDO: Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours on Sunday (Jul 12), a day after Walt Disney World in Orlando reopened and anti-mask activists held a rally at a nearby restaurant. If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in […]