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The merchandise trade deficit rose in the United States in March, in an indication that the Corona virus outbreak has upset the flow of goods and services in the world. It is expected that the American debt will rise to 27 trillion dollars, with the administration borrowing three trillion new …

The press office of the Russian Ministry of Culture announced today, Wednesday, that the Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lubimova was infected with the Coruna virus. “The Minister of Culture, Olga Lubyumova, is working remotely. The results of the analysis of Covid-19 are positive,” said a spokeswoman for the Russian …

The death toll from the emerging coronavirus in Spain has increased by 224 new cases during the past 24 hours, after health authorities recorded fewer than 200 deaths during three consecutive days. The Spanish Ministry of Health confirmed today, Wednesday, that the death toll of the epidemic in the country …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has lashed out at the United States for intensifying its illegal sanctions against the Iranian nation at a time when the country is fighting a deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying Washington should first lift the bans to prove its sincerity in offering help to the Islamic Republic …

France accused Apple of undermining its effort to fight the coronavirus by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app. Countries are rushing to develop smartphone apps, which are seen as a way to help keep the novel coronavirus epidemic in check while reopening …

President Donald Trump denied any involvement by the US government in what Venezuelan officials have called a failed armed incursion in the South American country that led to the capture of two American “mercenaries.” Trump made the comment to reporters at the White House after socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro …

US secretary of state said there was ‘enormous evidence’ the virus emerged from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. China’s state broadcaster CCTV has attacked recent remarks from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, calling them “insane and evasive”. Pompeo, speaking …

congresswoman Ilhan Omar has renewed calls for the US to suspend sanctions against Iran, as the country’s crippled health-care system struggles to deal with the rapid spread of the coronavirus. “We need to suspend these sanctions before more lives are lost,” Omar said via Twitter on Friday, retweeting an earlier …

A number of terrorists have been killed as forces with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) carried out a security operation in the western province of Kordestan, which borders Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. A statement by the IRGC’s Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada Base said several “counter-revolutionary’ terrorists were killed during clashes …

10 Downing Street has started devising schemes to ease coronavirus restrictions in order to slowly get the country back to work and avoid plunging the national economy into a full-fledged crisis. However, many believe that these efforts have been too swift. Trade unions slammed “incomplete” back-to-work guidelines drafted by the …

Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was reported by The New York Times as mulling plans to invoke a provision in the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA), which the Trump administration pulled out of in 2018, to either seek the extension of an arms embargo on Iran or reimpose even …

With the general election just six months away, and the global economy in shambles because of the coronavirus, there is increasing urgency inside the White House and among President Donald Trump’s Republican allies to blame China over its failure to stem the spread of the disease early on. Now, there’s …

The US will report “very definitively” on the origins of the Covid-19 virus over time, President Donald Trump has said without any further details. Washington has been claiming it came from a Chinese lab, but provided no evidence. “We will be reporting very definitively over a period of time,” Trump …

Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Tuesday he was confident the new European Recovery Fund will make available at least 100 billion euros ($109 billion) for Italy to help its economy bounce back from the coronavirus crisis. European leaders are negotiating over the creation of a fund worth at least …

A US news agency reported that IAEA inspections of Iran’s nuclear program had reached a record high over the past year. According to this agency, the number of inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of Iran’s nuclear program last year was a record. According to the Bloomberg News …

The Minister of Public Health in Yemen, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakkil, announced today, Tuesday, the registration of the first confirmed case of a Corona epidemic in the capital, Sanaa, for a Somali immigrant. The Minister of Health said in a press conference held in the capital, Sanaa: We received a report …

A French Foreign Legion soldier was killed in combat in Mali, the Élysée presidential palace announced in a press release on Monday. First Class Legionnaire Kévin Clement was killed in action on Monday during an operation against armed terrorist groups in Mali, the French presidential office said. Clement’s death came …

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has hailed British lawmakers’ opposition to Israel’s land-grab scheme to annex more Palestinian territories. In a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, 127 current and former MPs from across the political spectrum voiced their outrage at the Israeli regime’s West Bank annexation scheme. They …

Venezuelan authorities have detained two U.S. citizens working with a U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into the oil-producing country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday. In a state television address, Maduro said authorities arrested 13 “terrorists” on Monday involved in a plot he …

New York state is reporting more than 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as the state faces scrutiny over how it’s protected vulnerable residents during the coronavirus pandemic. At least 4,813 people have died from COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes since March 1, according …