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Global coronavirus cases top 1 million as pandemic spreads

World NewsApr 3, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- The number of officially reported coronavirus cases worldwide topped the one million mark on Thursday, signifying a sharp acceleration in the number of infections and deaths over the p...
Pakistan overturns Briton's death sentence in Daniel Pearl murder

World NewsApr 2, 2020

A Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted 18 years ago in the kidnapping and beheading of American journalist Da...
Trump casts doubt on Chinese coronavirus figures

World NewsApr 2, 2020

President Donald Trump cast doubt on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover up. "How do we...
North Korea insists it is free of coronavirus

North KoreaApr 2, 2020

North Korea remains totally free of the coronavirus, a senior health official in Pyongyang has insisted, despite mounting scepticism overseas as confirmed global infections near one million. The alr...
Europeans on UN Security Council condemn North Korean tests

North KoreaApr 1, 2020

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The European members of the UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned North Korea's latest missile tests, describing the launches as "provocative actions." Belgium, Estonia, Fr...
CNN reporter Cuomo, brother of NY governor, has coronavirus

World NewsApr 1, 2020

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) -- Ethiopia's election commission announced Tuesday that general elections due in August would be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, in a setback for the country's fragile...
Human testing for Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine this fall

HealthMar 31, 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it had selected a lead candidate vaccine for the new coronavirus that would move to human trials by September and could be ready for emergency use...
[Newsmaker] Germany bets on S. Korean model in virus fightback

WorldMar 30, 2020

BERLIN (AFP) -- In the race against the coronavirus, Germany is betting on widespread testing and quarantining to break the infection chain, a strategy borrowed from South Korea whose success in slow...
French expert says second study shows malaria drug helps fight coronavirus

World NewsMar 29, 2020

The controversial French professor who believes the anti-malaria drug chloroquine can help beat the coronavirus, has claimed that a new study he has conducted confirms its "efficiency" at combatting ...
German minister commits suicide after 'virus crisis worries'

World NewsMar 29, 2020

Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany's Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming "deeply worried" over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state...
Moody's cuts South Africa's credit ratings to junk

World BusinessMar 28, 2020

Moody's has downgraded South Africa's credit rating to junk status, piling more anguish on an economy already in recession and battered by Africa's worst coronavirus outbreak. Two other major intern...
China virus epicentre eases travel restrictions after lockdown

World NewsMar 28, 2020

The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened on Saturday after more than two months of almost total isolation. Wuhan was...
Trump invokes defense powers to order GM to produce ventilators

World NewsMar 28, 2020

President Donald Trump issued a federal order Friday to force auto giant General Motors to manufacture ventilators, as supplies of the crucial hospital equipment grow short and coronavirus infections...
French PM warns 'difficult' days ahead over coronavirus

World NewsMar 27, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe raised the alarm Friday over an "extremely high" surge in coronavirus cases in the country and warned things will be "difficult" in the coming da...
International tourism to plunge up to 30% due to virus: UN

World NewsMar 27, 2020

MADRID (AFP) -- The number of international tourist arrivals will fall by 20-30 percent in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus, putting millions of jobs at risk, the World Tourism Organization said Fri...