News Archives for World - 2020-04-17

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Middle East

Dubai extends 24-hour coronavirus curfew by a week

The Gulf Arab country on Friday reported 477 new cases and two more deaths, both Gulf nationals, taking its tally t

Published 17 Apr, 2020 07:40pm

Europe

France coronavirus death toll nears 19,000 but spread continues to slow

"Our collective efforts demonstrate their effectiveness. The lockdown is starting to bear fruit," Salomon said.

Published 17 Apr, 2020 07:31pm

Africa

IMF, World Bank say Africa to get $57bn from official creditors in 2020

World Bank and IMF said the total includes more than $18 billion from each of the two institutions for front line h

Published 17 Apr, 2020 07:21pm

World

Colombia jobless could grow by more than 1mn over coronavirus

Findings from the Integrated Household Survey show there have been approximately 1,146,000 million new layoffs due

Published 17 Apr, 2020 07:16pm

World

US coronavirus death toll passes 34,000

The number of new cases reported has increased for three days in a row and is the highest since a record high incre

Published 17 Apr, 2020 07:12pm

Middle East

Turkey's coronavirus death toll rises by 126 to 1,769: health minister

The total number of cases in the country stood at 78,546, he said. A total of 8,631 people have recovered from

Published 17 Apr, 2020 03:59pm

World

Africa needs more than $200 billion to respond to pandemic, UN chief says

Guterres told a virtual conference on Africa hosted by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund that the cont

Published 17 Apr, 2020 03:10pm

Europe

Hungary PM defends mass evacuation of hospital beds

On April 7, Hungary's minister in charge of health ordered hospitals to keep at least 60 percent of the country's a

Published 17 Apr, 2020 03:02pm

Europe

UK virus death toll rises to over 14,500

Britain remains among the countries worst-hit by the pandemic, with the latest data also showing the total number o

Published 17 Apr, 2020 02:56pm

Europe

Macron, Putin mull UN Security Council video-summit

It added that Macron had expressed thanks for Russian help in getting French citizens back home during the pandemic

Published 17 Apr, 2020 02:52pm

Europe

Russian virus cases top 32,000, Putin warns of 'very high' risks

Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Friday reported the completion of a 500-bed hospital built within weeks, which wi

Published 17 Apr, 2020 02:50pm

Asia

China says it will step up macro policies to offset coronavirus pandemic impact

China will make prudent monetary policy more flexible and proactive fiscal policy more effective, according to the

Updated 17 Apr, 2020 02:08pm

Europe

WHO spurs Mideast to use its advantage in pandemic fight

That accounts for a small proportion of the more than two million cases and over 140,000 deaths declared worldwide

Published 17 Apr, 2020 12:09pm

Europe

Belgium virus death toll passes 5,000

Half of the fatalities were reported from old-age care homes, and the other half from hospitals in the country of 1

Published 17 Apr, 2020 11:44am

Europe

Virus cases top 32,000 in Russia, 'difficult weeks' ahead

This week city authorities tightened the lockdown by introducing a digital permit system, requiring that anyone tra

Published 17 Apr, 2020 11:42am

Asia

Japan offers $930 virus stimulus payment to all residents

Abe initially declared a state of emergency in seven regions of the country but expanded this on Thursday to includ

Published 17 Apr, 2020 11:39am

Europe

Spain coronavirus death toll nears 19,500

The total number of deaths in Spain now stands at 19,478, the third highest in the world after the United States an

Published 17 Apr, 2020 11:35am

Middle East

Iran says 89 virus deaths take total to 4,958

Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference that the latest deaths brought the overall toll

Published 17 Apr, 2020 11:33am

World

China's Wuhan city revises up total coronavirus death toll by 1,290

Wuhan also revised up confirmed cases by 325. China’s Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbre

Published 17 Apr, 2020 06:00am

World

Millions unemployed, homebuilding collapses as virus ravages US economy

A record 22 million Americans have sought unemployment benefits over the past month, with millions more filing claims last week, almost wiping out all the job gains since the Great Recession and underscoring the toll on the economy from extraordinary meas