WELLINGTON: New Zealand said on Wednesday (Jul 8) that a 32-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 will be charged after briefly absconding from an isolation facility in Auckland, the latest slip-up as the country tries to keep coronavirus cases at its border. The man, who was in quarantine after […]
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SYDNEY: Long queues of cars banked up on either side of one of Australia’s busiest internal border crossings on Tuesday (Jul 8) after it was closed overnight in a bid to contain a fresh outbreak of the coronavirus in the country’s second-biggest city. Police checkpoints caused delays of more than […]
LONDON: British finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce on Wednesday (Jul 8) his next moves to prevent a wave of job cuts from snowballing into a full-blown unemployment crisis in the world’s sixth-biggest economy. Sunak is already on course to take Britain’s borrowing to World War II levels as he […]
WASHINGTON: The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Tuesday (Jul 7) that China is pushing its preferences in the United States election as part of broad intelligence operations, whose economic impact he called unprecedented. Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, did not say whether China backed […]
SYDNEY: Australia could take an economic hit of as much as A$1 billion (US$700 million) each week because of coronavirus restrictions reimposed by Victoria state, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Wednesday (Jul 8). Renewed lockdown measures in Victoria’s capital city of Melbourne will kick in from midnight for at least […]
LONDON: Hollywood actor Johnny Depp strenuously denied being violent to his ex-wife Amber Heard, as he launched a libel claim in a London court on Tuesday (Jul 7) against a British tabloid newspaper that called him a “wife-beater”. The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 57, is suing the publishers of […]
SEOUL: The U.S. point man for North Korea will meet with South Korean officials in Seoul on Wednesday (Jul 8) for wide-ranging talks, overshadowed by Pyongyang’s insistence that it has no intention of returning to denuclearisation negotiations any time soon. Stephen Biegun, who led working-level negotiations with the North Koreans […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Many U.S. colleges were scrambling on Tuesday (Jul 7) to modify plans for the fall semester in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic a day after the Trump administration issued an order that could force tens of thousands of foreign students to leave the country if their schools […]
NEW YORK: The United States will leave the World Health Organization (WHO) on Jul 6, 2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Jul 7), after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump, […]
NEW YORK: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States pushed past 3 million on Tuesday (Jul 7), according to a Reuters tally, roughly equal to the population of Nevada, stoking fears that hospitals will be overwhelmed. The United States has the highest known numbers of both COVID-19 […]