‘Unhappy’ Donald Trump Wants To Send Team Of Experts Inside China For COVID-19 Probe
The US wants to send a team of experts to China to investigate coronavirus, President Donald Trump has said, a day after he warned Beijing of “consequences” if it was knowingly responsible for the spread of COVID-19 which has killed more than 165,000 people globally, including over 41,000 in America. Describing the coronavirus as a […]
‘Bizarre’: India dismisses Pak PM’s tweet on discrimination against Muslims
India on Sunday rejected criticism by Pakistan’s top leadership of the “deliberate and violent targeting of Muslims”, saying such remarks were an attempt to shift focus from Islamabad’s “abysmal handling” of its internal affairs. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) had criticised what they described as the deliberate targeting […]
Coronavirus: Japan doctors warn of health system ‘break down’ as cases surge
Doctors in Japan have warned that the country’s medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases. Emergency rooms have been unable to treat some patients with serious health conditions due to the extra burden caused by the virus, officials say. One ambulance carrying a patient with coronavirus symptoms was turned away by […]
China emerges as coronavirus scapegoat in US election campaign
If attack advertisements now being rolled out are any indication, United States President Donald Trump and his campaign managers have settled on a scapegoat for the coronavirus pandemic that has upended his re-election prospects – China. New advertisements now hitting three critical battleground states cast likely Democratic challenger Joe Biden as friendly to China while championing Trump’s […]
UK begins world’s biggest Covid-19 trial to zero in on treatment, results likely by June
Bengaluru: The United Kingdom has launched the world’s largest randomised clinical trial for drugs to treat Covid-19. Called RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy), the nationwide trial aims “to identify treatments that may be beneficial to adults hospitalised” with the disease. The UK has recorded over 1 lakh cases of Covid-19, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Charles (both have now recovered). […]
‘Painful’: Al-Aqsa closed for Ramadan over coronavirus
Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-holiest site have announced. Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-appointed council that oversees Islamic sites on the sacred compound, called the decision “painful”. In a statement published on Thursday, the council […]
Trump’s approach to reopen economy leaves decisions to governors
US President Donald Trump gave governors a road map on Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. “We’re starting our life again,” Trump said during his […]
Afghan forces intercept Taliban fighters, find Jaish terrorists training for Kashmir
A chance discovery of global terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed cadres in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Monday night has confirmed the assessment of Indian intelligence agencies that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence had resumed training a select groups of terrorists for Kashmir in war-torn Afghanistan, people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times. The Afghan forces had carried out […]
‘Irresponsible, Ill-Intentioned’: China Refutes US Remarks On Beijing Secretly Resuming Underground Nuclear Tests
China on Thursday said it was “committed” to a moratorium on nuclear tests as it strongly refuted as “irresponsible” and “ill-intentioned” the US remarks of the possibility of Beijing secretly resuming underground atomic experiments. The US State Department in a report on Wednesday said that China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test […]
Bangladesh rescues hundreds of Rohingya adrift at sea; 24 dead
At least 24 Rohingya died at sea after their boat failed to reach Malaysia, the coastguard in Bangladesh said on Thursday after rescuring 396 Rohingya people from the vessel which had been adrift for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia. “They were at sea for about two months and were starving,” an official from the […]
