SINGAPORE: Singapore has entered a technical recession after its economy contracted 41.2 per cent in the second quarter from the previous three months, dragged down by weak external demand and COVID-19 “circuit breaker” measures. Several months of COVID-19 restrictions and workplace closures have battered Singapore’s construction, retail and tourism sectors, […]
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SACRAMENTO: California’s governor on Monday (Jul 13) clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared, and the state’s two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered bars closed and […]
SAN DIEGO: Hundreds of firefighters battled through a second day from the air, land and water on Monday (Jul 13) to save a US war vessel swept by flames while moored at a San Diego shipyard, as the number of sailors and civilians injured in the blaze rose to nearly […]
WASHINGTON: International students have already been denied entry to the United States under new Trump administration rules that bar them from the country if their schools hold all classes online amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a court document filed on Sunday (Jun 12). The “friend of the court” brief, […]
LONDON: Shoppers in England will have to wear face coverings in shops and supermarkets from Jul 24 to help reduce the risk of a new pick-up in the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said. Johnson said last week that tighter rules on wearing face coverings might […]
LONDON: Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of COVID-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday (Jul 14). With COVID-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together […]
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday (Jul 13) that the United States would treat Beijing’s pursuit of resources in the dispute-rife South China Sea as illegal, ramping up support for Southeast Asian nations. It was the latest forceful statement by President Donald Trump’s administration to challenge China, […]
GENEVA/ZURICH: The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday (Jul 13). “Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one,” […]
NEW YORK: A one-year-old boy died in hospital after being shot in his stroller at a Brooklyn playground on Sunday (Jul 12). Toddler Davell Gardner Jr was killed and three men were wounded on Sunday after two gunmen opened fire at a family cookout in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, […]
REUTERS: Drugmakers partnered with the US government are on track to begin actively manufacturing a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said on Monday (Jul 13). “If you say exactly when will literally the vaccine materials be in production and manufacturing, it is […]