PARIS: The Covid-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous US election and the Black Lives Matter movement shake the world. Here are some of the key events of the year: Rampaging virus On January 11, […]
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WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden warned yesterday of “devastating consequences” if President Donald Trump continues to delay signing a Covid-19 economic relief bill passed by Congress. Biden spoke out as millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire after Trump threw a long-awaited pandemic aid package into doubt — demanding […]
ASHGABAT, Turkeministan: Well-known for his baffling botanical pronouncements, Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov claimed today that liquorice could cure coronavirus, the latest supposed miracle cure in a country still claiming zero cases. “Scientists from every country are looking for effective cures, running various studies, and one of them could be liquorice […]
NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition party pressed the government today to call a special parliamentary session to withdraw new agricultural laws that farmers say will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader from the opposition Congress party, handed the president a copy of a […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Transport Ministry today fined EVA Airways Corp Tw$1 million (RM140,000) after the government blamed one of its pilots for a rare locally transmitted case of Covid-19 because he failed to follow disease prevention rules. Taiwan had until this week not reported domestic transmission since April 12, thanks to […]
JERUSALEM: Israel will hold a snap election in March after parliament failed yesterday to meet a deadline to pass a budget, triggering a ballot presenting new challenges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Campaigning in Israel’s fourth parliamentary election in two years gets underway with Netanyahu facing public anger over his […]
US President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the recent massive cyber attack against the US and also other Biden administration goals in Wilmington, Delaware December 22, 2020. WILMINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden said yesterday he had seen no evidence that a massive cyber attack against the United States is under control […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India next month in his first major bilateral visit to another country since taking power last year, his office said today. During the trip, Johnson will invite India to join next year’s G7 summit, which Britain is hosting, as one of […]
WASHINGTON: Covid and a traumatic presidential election left the US reeling in 2020, but even with Donald Trump gone and Joe Biden promising to heal the nation there’ll be no quick return to normal in 2021. For many in the world’s richest country, 2020 was the year that seemed never-ending […]
PARIS: Tunisia has no plans to match Morocco’s decision to recognise Israel, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said, insisting that establishing relations with the Jewish state was “not on the agenda”. Last week, Morocco became the fourth country in the Arab League to recognise Israel since August, in a flurry of […]