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Libyan Army forces attend “Operation Peace Storm” of the Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) against the forces of warlord Khalifa Haftar in Tripoli, Libya on 27 March 2020. [Amru Salahuddien – Anadolu Agency] The internationally-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday succeeded in liberating six cities and two strategic areas from the forces of […]

  German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz awaits the start of the video conference of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in his ministry in Berlin, Germany, April 15, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  Finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies agreed on Wednesday to suspend debt service payments for the world’s poorest countries […]

President Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. –   Copyright  AP Photo/Alex Brandon Governments and health experts worldwide have reacted with alarm after President Donald Trump said he was halting the sizable funding the United States sends to […]

 NEW YORK (WABC) — 752 lives were lost on Tuesday and the level of deaths in the state remains at a flat, yet devastating, level according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “I say, personal opinion, it’s over when we have a vaccine, when people can say I’m 100% safe and I don’t have to worry,” Cuomo […]

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus pandemic, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 28, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 special envoy on Wednesday urged critics to focus first on defeating the virus, after the United States halted funding over the […]

Mumbai’s Bandra stationed witnessed a large crowd on Tuesday as migrant workers hoping to get back home gathered there (India Today photo) Mumbai’s Bandra West railway station was flooded with migrant labourers who were hoping to get back home as they expected the lockdown to end on Tuesday. HIGHLIGHTS Mumbai’s Bandra West station witnessed a […]

  Egyptian security forces killed seven terrorists in a raid on a hideout in El-Amiriya neighbourhood in eastern Cairo on Tuesday evening. The cell was planning to carry out terrorist operations during the Easter holiday, according to a statement by the interior ministry on Tuesday. “The National Security Agency received information about a terrorist cell […]

The number of daily coronavirus fatalities registered by the Spanish Health Ministry came in at 523 on Wednesday, slightly down from the day before. According to the latest figures, new infections rose in the last 24 hours by 3% of the total, to reach 177,633 since the outbreak began in Spain – a slight rise […]

A staff member displays a sample of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at a vaccine production plant of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2020. Photo:Xinhua As the number of coronavirus infection cases rapidly approaches two million worldwide and as the world grows more desperate by the day for a […]

The French president said African economies must be given “some breathing space” as the coronavirus pandemic triggers the steepest slowdown since World War II. © French presidency, AFP International creditors must relieve African countries of debt payments this year to help them deal with the coronavirus pandemic, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a wide-ranging interview with RFI […]