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World Health Organization officials on Wednesday denied that the body was “China-centric” and said that the acute phase of a pandemic was not the time to cut funding after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would put contributions on hold. The United States is the top donor to the Geneva-based …

The founder of Twitter announced his donation of one billion dollars to help cope with the outbreak of the new Corona virus, which causes the disease (Covid 19) Twitter founder and president, Jack Dorsey, announced on Tuesday that he will donate $ 1 billion in shares of his other company, …

China reported no coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the first time since it started publishing daily figures in January. The National Health Commission said it had 32 confirmed cases, down from 39 on Monday. It comes as the government is under scrutiny as to whether it is underreporting its figures. The …

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has condemned controversial comments made by French doctors about testing a COVID-19 potential treatment first in Africa, calling the remarks a “hangover from a colonial mentality.” “To be honest, I was so appalled. And it was a time when I said when we …

It was considered by some a key plank in India’s battle against coronavirus: on Saturday, the government there announced it was banning the export of various drugs which could potentially help patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Stockpiles of medicines, including hydroxychloroquine – an anti-malaria drug being tested as an unlikely but …

Boris Johnson remains in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital in London on Tuesday morning but he has not required a ventilator, the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said. Mr. Gove, who described foreign secretary Dominic Raab as “the person who is running the country”, is now self-isolating at …

At a Tehran mosque converted into a factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against the coronavirus. Lined up like factory workers, around 15 women have taken up positions in front of table-top sewing machines to …

The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terror group in Iraq is reportedly preparing to evacuate troops from a military base in the city of Abu Gharib, west of the capital Baghdad. Iraqi media outlets reported on Tuesday that the US-led coalition had decided to hand over the base in …

Spain has seen its daily number of coronavirus deaths fall for a fourth consecutive day, bolstering hopes the country is passing the outbreak’s peak. Monday’s increase of 637 deaths means more than 13,000 have died in total. Spain’s population has been living under severe restrictions for more than three weeks, …

Rockets landed near a district that houses foreign workers in Iraq’s oil industry early on Monday but caused no damage or casualties, oil and police sources said. Police said the three Katyusha rockets, launched at around 3 a.m. local time, hit the Burjesia residential and operations headquarters west of Iraq’s …

Japan is to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday in a bid to stop the coronavirus, the prime minister said, with the government preparing a stimulus package to soften the economic blow. More than 3,500 people have tested positive for the …

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says more than 30 countries, as well as a number of international organizations, have provided it with assistance in its battle against the new coronavirus outbreak. Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi made the remarks during a press conference held via video link in Tehran on Monday, expressing gratitude …

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “still very much in charge of the government” despite spending the night in the hospital with coronavirus, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said. The PM was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms” – including a temperature – for a …

Emergency teams in Ukraine on Monday continued battling a forest fire in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that has raised radiation fears. Two blazes erupted Saturday in the zone around Chernobyl that was sealed after the 1986 explosion at the plant. Firefighters said they have managed …

ussian President Vladimir Putin on Friday blamed the recent collapse in oil prices on Saudi Arabia’s withdrawal from an OPEC+ deal over oil supply, as well the impact of coronavirus on demand. At a meeting with Energy Minister Alexander Novak, Putin said Saudi Arabia was planning to get rid of …

Jordan confined its 10 million inhabitants to their homes in a sweeping one-day curfew on Friday that brought public life to a complete stop in a stepped-up bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, witnesses and officials said. The government said the 24-hour curfew that began Thursday at midnight, …

OPEC and its allies are working on a deal for an unprecedented oil production cut equivalent to around 10% of worldwide supply in what they expect will be a global effort including the United States, but the White House did not make such a commitment after a Friday meeting with …

Several flights carrying Lebanese stranded abroad by coronavirus lockdowns began arriving in Beirut on Sunday, part of a trial run to see whether thousands looking to come home can be safely repatriated without worsening the country’s outbreak. Their return became a charged issue after powerful parliament speaker Nabih Berri threatened …

The chief physician at the New York University Medical Center, Wayne Riley, spoke of a shortage of personal protective equipment for doctors working with people with the Coronavirus. According to Riley, doctors will soon have to replace surgical clothes with garbage bags and raincoats. The doctor said, “The stock of …

Saudi Arabia has conducted a rocket attack on a border district in Yemen’s northwestern Sa’ada Province, killing all members of a family. The al-Masirah television network reported that the family consisting of a father, a pregnant mother and two children had lost their lives in the Saudi rocket strike on …