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  President Donald Trump steps away from the lectern to allow Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday,April 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)  WASHINGTON — For the first time, President Donald Trump cut […]

In this Saturday, April 11, 2020, file photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang. AP China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to […]

France’s armed forces ministry on Friday said it had bought a consignment of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine from China as a precaution in case it becomes an approved medication for the coronavirus, an idea dismissed by many experts. GERARD JULIEN AFP/File France’s armed forces ministry on Friday said it had bought a consignment of the anti-malarial […]

According to reports from Saudi Arabia, the authorities abolished the punishment of flogging in accordance with a legal document circulated by the media. The document indicated that the Supreme Court in Saudi Arabia decided to abolish the punishment provided that it replace it with imprisonment or a fine. A prominent Saudi human rights activist “dies […]

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned Friday that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus after President Donald […]

Prison personnel wash their hands at the entrance of the Baidoa Central Prison. ©ICRC/ Feisal Mukhtar Like most countries around the globe, Somalia finds itself in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of known infections has risen dramatically in the last weeks. Sweeping public restrictions have followed suit in a bid to curb the […]

China opened its base in Djibouti, its first overseas, in 2017. Photo: AFP In Djibouti has prompted both the United States and China to tighten precautions at their military bases in the East African nation to prevent outbreaks among troops.s Military installations housing US forces in Djibouti were placed under “precautionary” public health emergency measures […]

  There are now more than over 27,600 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic. According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown […]

ANSA) – Rome, April 24 – Premier Giuseppe Conte has welcomed the outcome of Thursday’s EU summit, held via video conference, on the bloc’s response to the economic earthquake caused by the coronavirus crisis. European leaders agreed to set up a recovery fund tied to the EU’s multi-year budget and confirmed 540bn euros of support […]

The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they are carried out secretly or via proxy armies. These operations have not been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic; on the contrary, they seem to have accelerated. Published 20 hours ago on April 23, 2020By Rasna Warah Download PDFPrint Article While the United […]