News Archives for World - 2020-04-14

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Trump announces funding halt to World Health Organization

Trump instructing his administration to halt funding while "a review is conducted to assess WHO’s role in severely

Updated 15 Apr, 2020 05:18am

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France reports 762 more coronavirus deaths

The number of confirmed cases in France now exceeds 100,000, health official Jerome Salomon told reporters.

Published 14 Apr, 2020 08:57pm

World

UK GDP could 'fall 13pc' in 2020 as virus death toll climbs

"The resulting 13 percent fall in annual GDP in 2020 would comfortably exceed any of the annual falls around the en

Published 14 Apr, 2020 08:55pm

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Repeated bouts of social distancing may be needed until 2022: Harvard study

The study comes as the US enters the peak of its COVID-19 caseload and states eye an eventual easing of tough lockd

Published 14 Apr, 2020 08:52pm

World

Trump eyes reopening US economy but assailed over 'king' powers

Facing a tough reelection in November, the Republican president is eager to get the world's biggest economy back on

Published 14 Apr, 2020 08:50pm

World

Pentagon downplays N. Korea's apparent missile launches

"These were short range. These aren't any particularly big, big missiles," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Mill

Published 14 Apr, 2020 08:50pm

World

Obama endorses Biden for president to 'heal' America

"Joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long r

Published 14 Apr, 2020 08:49pm

World

Obama set to endorse Joe Biden for president

The 77-year-old former vice president is the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee. WASHINGTON: Barack Obama

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:32pm

Europe

NATO chief urges more self-sufficiency in medical stocks

Stoltenberg spoke a day before NATO defence ministers were to hold a videoconference focused on the consequences of

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:29pm

World

More than 120,000 killed by coronavirus worldwide

The figures were collated using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Heal

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:28pm

Europe

Coronavirus deaths in Sweden pass 1,000: health agency

Sweden's Public Health Agency said it had recorded a total of 11,445 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,033 deaths.

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:24pm

World

China, India to narrowly avoid recession in virus-hit 2020: IMF

It predicted growth of 1.2 percent growth for China this year, the slowest expansion in more than four decades.

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:23pm

Europe

Amazon France deliveries limited to essential goods amid virus risk

While carrying out the health evaluation, Amazon can prepare and deliver only "food, hygiene and medical products,"

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:21pm

Europe

G7 favors debt standstill for poorest countries, if G20 agrees

The G20 includes major emerging market economies like China and Russia. The officials from the seven advanced

Published 14 Apr, 2020 03:20pm

World

Pandemic recovery will require more, coordinated stimulus: IMF

The spending "would be even more effective if it were coordinated across all the advanced economies of the world,"

Published 14 Apr, 2020 02:26pm

Europe

Romania extends coronavirus lockdown for another month

Romania with a population of almost 20 million people has reported more than 6,800 confirmed cases of the new coron

Published 14 Apr, 2020 02:21pm

World

Afghan peace process: Khalilzad, Miller meet COAS Bajwa

The dignitaries discussed the ongoing efforts for a sustainable peace in Afghanistan and renewed their commitment t

Updated 15 Apr, 2020 10:05am

Europe

UK PM Johnson continues his recovery from COVID-19

"The priority is for the PM to rest and recover and his medical team have advised him not to immediately return to

Published 14 Apr, 2020 01:51pm

Europe

UK economy could shrink by 35pc in April-June period

The budget deficit could hit 273 billion pounds ($342.23 billion) in the 2020/21 tax year, five times its previous

Published 14 Apr, 2020 01:42pm

Middle East

Saudi Arabia affirms OPEC+ pact aims for market balance, stability

OPEC and allies led by Russia, a group known as OPEC+, agreed on Sunday to cut oil output to prop up prices amid th

Published 14 Apr, 2020 01:38pm

Europe

117 million children face measles risk from COVID-19 response: UN

Measles, a highly contagious disease, effects around 20 million people every year, the majority of whom are aged un

Published 14 Apr, 2020 12:54pm

Europe

WHO emergency committee meets on Ebola after new DRC case

The meeting comes a day after DR Congo had been expected to announce that the outbreak in the east of the country t

Published 14 Apr, 2020 12:49pm

Asia

Beijing says people arriving from Wuhan test negative for coronavirus

Gao Xiaojun, spokesman of Beijing's municipal health commission told a news conference that the results show return

Published 14 Apr, 2020 11:07am

Europe

France warns of 8pc GDP drop this year after lockdown extension

France reported 574 new daily deaths Monday, bringing the total to nearly 15,000, but the number of people in serio

Published 14 Apr, 2020 10:30am

Europe

Spain's virus death toll tops 18,000

The number of new infections rose by 1.8 percent to 172,541 cases, according to the health ministry, the smallest i

Published 14 Apr, 2020 10:27am

Middle East

Iran says virus deaths drop below 100 for first time in month

Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 98 deaths from the COVID-19 disease were recorded in the past 24

Published 14 Apr, 2020 10:24am

Asia

China approves two experimental coronavirus vaccines to enter clinical trials

The vaccines are being developed by a Beijing-based unit of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech, and by the Wuhan Institu

Published 14 Apr, 2020 07:07am

World

India extends world's biggest lockdown as coronavirus cases cross 10,000

"Till May 3, every India n will have to stay in lockdown. I request all India ns that we stop the coronavirus fro

Published 14 Apr, 2020 06:54am

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COVID-19 is 10 times more deadly than swine flu: WHO

The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.