News Archives for World - 2020-07-30

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USA

Senators urge US Justice Dept to probe TikTok, Zoom

The two lawmakers said they were asking for the investigation because of reports of violations of Americans' civil liberties.
We believe that it is imperative that the Department of Justice investigate and determine whether Zoom and TikTok's business relationships.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 11:47pm

USA

US CDC reports 4,405,932 coronavirus cases

The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19.
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 11:31pm

Africa

IMF approves $171.9mn to Madagascar to address COVID-19 pandemic

This is the second emergency disbursement since the onset of the pandemic and will help finance the country's urgent balance of payments and fiscal needs.

Updated 30 Jul, 2020 11:31pm

World

WHO warns over virus risk to young people

Young people are not invincible," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 09:01pm

USA

Pompeo: US will do what it can to ensure Nord Stream 2 pipeline does not threaten Europe

"We'll do everything we can to make sure that that pipeline doesn't threaten Europe," Pompeo said while testifying publicly at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 07:55pm

USA

Florida reports record increase in COVID-19 deaths for third day in a row

Florida also reported 9,956 new cases, bringing its total infections to over 461,000, the second highest in the country behind California.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 07:43pm

World

Trump suggests delay in presidential election over coronavirus fears

Trump has previously insisted that he sees no problem going ahead with the election, where he faces Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 07:28pm

USA

US weekly jobless claims rise again with 1.43mn filed

The data for the week ended July 25 marked an increase of 12,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised level.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 06:27pm

World

Global coronavirus cases top 17 million

At least 17,022,877 cases have been registered as the pandemic accelerates with a million new infections detected in the last four days.

Updated 30 Jul, 2020 06:20pm

Europe

Vietnam orders 21,000 Hanoi residents to take virus test

At the weekend, a man in the coastal city of Danang tested positive for COVID-19 -- the first community transmission the country had detected since April.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 05:34pm

Europe

Russia reports more than 5,500 new coronavirus cases

Officials said 129 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 13,802.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 05:22pm

Asia

Daily coronavirus cases in India top 50,000 for first time

There were 52,123 new cases in the previous 24 hours, according to federal health data, taking the total number of infections to almost 1.6 million.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 05:02pm

Europe

UK coronavirus cases at best flat, health minister says

"It's true that the number of cases is at best flat whereas before it was falling, and that's because there's been more social contact," he said.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 05:00pm

Europe

Italy June unemployment rate rises to 8.8pc as 46,000 jobs are lost

The May rate was previously reported as 7.8pc and ISTAT said the health emergency was proving an obstacle to gathering data.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 04:57pm

Europe

German economy shrinks by record 10.1pc in second quarter

"This was the sharpest decline since the quarterly GDP calculations for Germany began in 1970," the statistics office said.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 04:55pm

South Asia

Hong Kong reports 149 new coronavirus cases, a daily record

Hong Kong had reported 118 new cases on Wednesday. Since late January, more than 3,000 people have been infected in the city, 24 of whom have died.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 04:02pm

South Asia

China orders regular coronavirus tests at wholesale markets

The guideline come after China's capital city Beijing reported in early June a cluster of coronavirus infections that centred around a major wholesale market.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 03:58pm

World

Australia reports record spike in coronavirus cases, 14 deaths

The toll takes the country's total fatalities from the novel coronavirus to 190, more than half of which have occurred in Victoria, the second-most populous state.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 03:54pm

Europe

Poland reports its highest daily raise in coronavirus cases

The health ministry also said on its Twitter account that the number of documented deaths had risen by 15 to 1,709 so far.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 03:51pm

Middle East

Number of coronavirus cases in Iran passes 300,000

There were 226 deaths from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours taking the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 16,569.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 03:37pm

Europe

Czech coronavirus spike continues as cases top 16,000

The Health Ministry also unveiled plans to ramp up testing capacity, which Health Minister Adam Vojtech said was currently at around 17,000 daily.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 03:24pm

World

Hong Kong opens dining in shelters as residents struggle with restaurant ban

Authorities on Thursday opened 19 community centres for residents to eat inside.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 11:21am

World

Coronavirus deaths top 150,000 in worst-hit US

Nations around the globe are seeing a rise in cases that are damaging economies and forcing protection measures that have disrupted all aspects of life.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 04:32am

USA

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 90,000

It has regularly recorded more than 1,000 deaths a day since early July, and more than 30,000 new cases a day since mid-June.

Published 30 Jul, 2020 04:29am