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Kier Starmer orders urgent review into leaked antisemitism report

In a statement afterwards, Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl, Jewish Leadership Council chairman Jonathan Goldstein, Community Security Trust chairm...

Islamic State terror cell 'planning attacks on U.S. bases' arrested in Germany

Special forces in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia made the arrests near the cities of Essen and Duesseldorf and raided properties in the area. It ha...

Pastor Who Held Packed Service Dies Of CoronavirusGuardian Life

Tim Kaine, D-Va., tweeted Sunday. An evangelical pastor who defiantly held church services even with Covid-19 rampant through the USA has died of coronavirus...

US hits record 2228 deaths in past 24 hours

Worldwide coronavirus cases reached one million and the global death toll surpassed 50,000 on April 2. While the true number of COVID-19 cases is impossible t...

Former 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden

Sanders, who endorsed the former vice president Monday, said that progressives who "sit on their hands" in the months ahead would be complicit in President T...

How to track and speed up your coronavirus stimulus check

It's also supposed to tell you if your stimulus payment will arrive by direct deposit or check. Get My Payment is a tracking tool that will not only all...

Global lockdown to cause "worst economic downturn since the Great Depression"

This is contained in the April 2020 World Economic Outlook report released on Tuesday in Washington. The World Economic Outlook report had expected a sharp ...

Global situation is grim, United States decision on World Health Organization will undermine cooperation: China

The world, more than ever, needs the WHO which is helping to slow down the spread of COVID-19, according to Gates. "Halting funding for the World Health Organ...

Zoo might feed animals to each other to stay afloat during lockdown

Kaspari did not go into detail about which of the animals it planned to slaughter, but said that even doing so may not be enough to save the zoo from completely...

Almost 2 million cases have been confirmed across globe

New York City alone has 6,898 coronavirus fatalities, the Johns Hopkins University count shows. There are almost 2 million confirmed infections globally with ...

Great Lockdown to rival Great Depression as global growth tanks, International Monetary Fund warns

The IMF report forecast a 6.6-percent drop in Mexico's GDP and a 5.3-percent drop in Brazil's, Latin America's two largest economies, with a recovery of 3 perce...

United Kingdom likely to extend coronavirus lockdown as science experts meet

Raab explained how there have been some "positive signs" from the data and that "we are starting to win", but stressed that the United Kingdom still hasn't reac...

German politicians debate easing restrictions as new infections drop

The advice from the academics comes as the daily figure for new infections in Germany has slowed but is still in the thousands of people. The Nationale Wiss...

World Health Organization funding cut: What does the United States decision actually mean?

The World Health Organisation declared a global public health emergency on January 30 and on March 11 formally "characterised" COVID-19 as a pandemic. Trump...

Hundreds of thousands return to work as Spain relaxes COVID-19 lockdown

But shops, bars, restaurants and other businesses considered non-essential remained closed and people are only allowed to leave their homes to work if they ca...

Trump slams World Health Organization over coronavirus response, suspends United States payments

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was not the time to reduce resources for the WHO. " Once we have finally turned the page on this epidemic , there...

Josh Hawley Proposes to Hold Chinese Accountable for Coronavirus Outbreak

If Dr. Kerkhove truly was confident that COVID-19 would spread through human-to-human transmission "right from the start" as she now claims, then the World Heal...

World Health Organization funding cut: What does the USA decision actually mean?

He said the USA would be reviewing the WHO's actions to stop the virus before making any decision on resuming aid. The Geneva-based organisation had promote...

China approves two experimental Covid-19 vaccines for clinical trials

Malaghan Institute director Professor Graham Le Gros said there were multiple vaccines being worked on overseas but with unprecedented global demand, manufa...

Deadly Olive tree bug threatens Spain by www

Regulatory measures were enacted in Italy after a similar bacterial strain destroyed around a million trees in 2013. It was first discovered in the country in...

China reports 46 new coronavirus cases in mainland vs 89 day earlier

Authorities counted 108 new coronavirus infections over the past day, including 98 cases among travellers returning from overseas, according to the National Hea...

Taiwan Scrambles Warships as Chinese Navy Approaches

China's Liaoning was escorted on Saturday by two type 052D guided-missile destroyers, two type 054A guided-missile frigates, and a type 901 combat support shi...

China McDonald apologises for Guangzhou ban on black people

Local authorities in Guangzhou, a city of 15 million, said at least eight people diagnosed with coronavirus had spent time in the city's Yuexiu district, know...

Australian economy will take biggest dive since the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says

Some of Asia's biggest economies are likely to narrowly avoid recession this year and are poised to bounce back strongly in 2021 if the coronavirus is contain...

South Korea to ship coronavirus testing kits to US

The third company is expected to deliver the kits through a USA -based agency. The shipment came about three weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump request...

Trudeau: It will be weeks before Canada restarts economy

He said his government will be providing nearly $130 million to help people in the North. "If you own a business and your costs aren't already covered by othe...

Obama set to endorse Biden for president

That only happens if we win this election ", Obama said . "Because one thing that everybody has learned by now: The Republicans occupying the White House and ...

PM, Govt ministers, public service execs to take 20% pay cut

There is a new significant cluster which is also centred at an aged care facility in Auckland. As of Wednesday, 13 people are hospitalised, with three patient...

International Monetary Fund forecast 3% contraction in global economy this year

A second outbreak in 2021 that forces more shutdowns could cause a reduction of five to eight percentage points in the global gross domestic product baseline fo...

Middle East economy to shrink 3.3 per cent in 2020

The IMF predicts the United Kingdom economy will shrink by 6.5% in 2020, compared with the IMF's January forecast for 1.4% GDP growth. The IMF released its ...