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'Swift and dangerous turn' in Texas coronavirus cases, says governor

'Swift and dangerous turn' in Texas coronavirus cases, says governor

-- 2020-06-29 14:21:54

The spread of coronavirus infections has taken a "swift and very dangerous turn" in the US state of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has warned. "Over just the past few weeks, the daily number of cases ha...

Vietnam grounds Pakistani pilots over licence concerns

Vietnam grounds Pakistani pilots over licence concerns

-- 2020-06-29 13:48:05

Vietnam’s aviation authority said on Monday it had grounded all Pakistani pilots working for local airlines, amid concern from global regulators that some pilots may have been using “dubio...

Gunmen attack Pakistani stock exchange, six killed

Gunmen attack Pakistani stock exchange, six killed

Reuters 2020-06-29 13:46:17

Four gunmen attacked the Pakistani Stock Exchange building in the city of Karachi on Monday but security forces killed them all, police said. Two other people were also killed, the military said, add...

China locks down 400,000 people after virus spike near Beijing

China locks down 400,000 people after virus spike near Beijing

-- 2020-06-29 11:39:59

China has reinstated a strict lockdown near Beijing, affecting around 400,000 people, after a small surge in cases. The restrictions have come into force in Anxin country in Hebei province near the c...

Australia sees biggest daily rise in Covid-19 cases in two months

Australia sees biggest daily rise in Covid-19 cases in two months

Reuters 2020-06-29 10:24:23

Australia’s second most populous state said on Monday it is considering reimposing social distancing restrictions after the country reported its biggest one-day rise in new coronavirus infection...

Global coronavirus deaths top half a million

Global coronavirus deaths top half a million

REUTERS 2020-06-29 09:44:44

The death toll from Covid-19 reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other...

France returns to polls for municipal elections, Macron faces drubbing

France returns to polls for municipal elections, Macron faces drubbing

-- 2020-06-28 14:08:27

France emerges from months of coronavirus lockdown to vote on Sunday in a delayed second round of municipal elections, with opinion polls suggesting a dire outcome for President Emmanuel Macron, whose...

Thousands flee Myanmar’s Rakhine as army plans operations

Thousands flee Myanmar’s Rakhine as army plans operations

REUTERS 2020-06-28 11:40:21

Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” agai...

Liverpool urge fans to celebrate title safely amid coronavirus fears

Liverpool urge fans to celebrate title safely amid coronavirus fears

-- 2020-06-27 23:19:55

Liverpool have condemned the behaviour of fans who gathered in Liverpool city centre for a second night on Friday to celebrate their team’s Premier League title win and urged them to stay at hom...

Kuwait indicts two lawmakers in money laundering case linked to Bangladesh MP

Kuwait indicts two lawmakers in money laundering case linked to Bangladesh MP

-- 2020-06-27 22:14:10

Kuwait has indicted two of its lawmakers on charges of laundering money and aiding and abetting Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam, arrested for alleged human trafficking. The duo has been remanded...

Micheal Martin elected new PM of Ireland

Micheal Martin elected new PM of Ireland

Xinhua 2020-06-27 20:02:57

Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin has been elected as new prime minister of Ireland in a vote held here on Saturday at a special meeting of the lower house of the Irish parliament. Announcing the vot...

WB approves $350m loan for Ukraine

WB approves $350m loan for Ukraine

-- 2020-06-27 16:17:49

The World Bank has approved a 350 million US dollar loan for Ukraine in support of reforms that are critical to its economic recovery and to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the b...

Outrage mounts over India police custodial deaths

Outrage mounts over India police custodial deaths

-- 2020-06-27 14:49:27

Outrage is mounting over the custodial deaths of a father and son in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. P Jeyaraj, 58, and his son Fenix, 38, were arrested for allegedly keeping their stores op...

Sudan, Egypt say Ethiopia will not fill Nile dam without reaching deal

Sudan, Egypt say Ethiopia will not fill Nile dam without reaching deal

Reuters 2020-06-27 13:47:11

Leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt agreed that Ethiopia will not start filling its Nile dam without reaching an agreement within two weeks, Sudan and Egypt said on Friday. Ethiopia, which is buildi...

New US coronavirus cases hit 45,242 for biggest one-day increase of pandemic

New US coronavirus cases hit 45,242 for biggest one-day increase of pandemic

-- 2020-06-27 12:42:11

The United States recorded 45,242 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, the largest single-day increase of the pandemic, according to a Reuters tally, bringing the total number of Americans who have tested...

India's Covid-19 cases cross 500,000

India's Covid-19 cases cross 500,000

-- 2020-06-27 12:15:37

India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Saturday, with infections su...

Pakistan grounds 262 airline pilots with 'dubious' credentials

Pakistan grounds 262 airline pilots with 'dubious' credentials

REUTERS 2020-06-27 11:52:31

Pakistan is grounding 262 airline pilots suspected of dodging their exams following inquiries into their qualifications, the aviation minister said on Friday in a move that has caused global concern....

EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded

EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded

REUTERS 2020-06-27 11:25:03

European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final “safe list” of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to...

Millions more could die in possible second coronavirus wave: WHO

Millions more could die in possible second coronavirus wave: WHO

CNN 2020-06-26 21:14:59

Millions of people could die if the coronavirus pandemic sees a second wave of infections, a World Health Organization official warned Friday, adding that the deadly outbreak has so far unfolded much...

Imran Khan under fire for bin Laden 'martyrdom' remark

Imran Khan under fire for bin Laden 'martyrdom' remark

-- 2020-06-26 20:27:59

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing criticism after he told parliament that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was “martyred” in 2011 by US forces. Bin Laden, who masterminded the...

Malaysia will not take any more Rohingyas

Malaysia will not take any more Rohingyas

-- 2020-06-26 17:38:02

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has said his country will not take any more Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, citing a struggling economy and dwindling resources as a result of the nove...

‘US COVID-19 cases likely 10 times higher than reported’

‘US COVID-19 cases likely 10 times higher than reported’

-- 2020-06-26 16:58:36

The number of coronavirus-infected people in the United States is likely to be 10 times as high as the 2.4 million confirmed cases, the chief of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

US sets one-day record for Covid-19 cases

US sets one-day record for Covid-19 cases

-- 2020-06-26 10:33:48

The governor of Texas temporarily halted the state’s reopening on Thursday as Covid-19 infections and hospitalisations surged and the country set a new record for a one-day increase in cases. T...

NASA to name HQ after its first black female engineer

NASA to name HQ after its first black female engineer

BBC 2020-06-25 21:07:43

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters is going to be named after its first black female engineer Mary Jackson. Jim Bridenstine, an administrator of the NASA, said Jack...

Gilead's remdesivir gets European endorsement to treat COVID-19

Gilead's remdesivir gets European endorsement to treat COVID-19

Reuters 2020-06-25 19:34:50

The European healthcare regulator has recommended the conditional approval of Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral treatment, remdesivir, for use in COVID-19 patients, making it the first treatment to be o...

Australia faces biggest one-day rise in coronavirus cases in two months

Australia faces biggest one-day rise in coronavirus cases in two months

-- 2020-06-25 17:40:42

Australia’s second most populous state deployed ambulances and mobile test centres in a coronavirus testing blitz as the country recorded the biggest daily rise in cases in two months, reports R...

Gulf Covid-19 cases surpass 400,000

Gulf Covid-19 cases surpass 400,000

Reuters 2020-06-25 17:25:49

The number of novel coronavirus cases in the six Gulf Arab states has doubled in a month to over 400,000, as the region's two biggest economies this week fully lifted curfews imposed to combat the inf...

PIA to ground a third of pilots over ‘dubious’ licences

PIA to ground a third of pilots over ‘dubious’ licences

-- 2020-06-25 16:19:57

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will ground a third of its 434 pilots on suspicion they hold ‘dubious’ licences and flying certificates, a company spokesman said on Thursday, reports...

Satellite images show new Chinese structures near site of border clash with India

Satellite images show new Chinese structures near site of border clash with India

Reuters 2020-06-25 14:16:19

China appears to have added new structures near the site of a deadly border clash with India in the western Himalayas, fresh satellite pictures show, heightening concerns about further flare-ups betwe...

Senegal president self-quarantines after contact with Covid-19 case

Senegal president self-quarantines after contact with Covid-19 case

-- 2020-06-25 13:45:29

Senegalese President Macky Sall is quarantining for two weeks after coming into contact with someone who has since tested positive for the coronavirus, state television said on Thursday. The measure...