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People shop at a supermarket as they begin to stock up on provisions, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo)  Global economic losses from the coronavirus pandemic could reach up to 8.8 trillion dollars, or nearly 10% of the world economy’s output, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday. The Manila-based bank […]

Journalist Daniela Taiocchi leafs through an edition of the newspaper L’Eco di Bergamo in which 10 pages of obituaries have been published due to the high number of deaths from the coronavirus disease, in Bergamo, Italy, on May 12, 2020. © Flavio Lo Scalzo, REUTERS Global coronavirus deaths passed 300,000 on Thursday as infections approached 4.5 […]

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has riled Paris by saying the US would be first in line to receive any COVID-19 vaccine. CEO Paul Hudson told Bloomberg that Washington would get priority because it had been first to fund Sanofi’s vaccine research.  But Edouard Philippe, France’s prime minister, said on Thursday that “equal access for everyone to the […]

Italian aid worker Silvia Romano’s release from Islamic terror group al-Shabaab has created controversy over her conversion to Islam and the Italian government allegedly paying her ransom | EPA-EFE/Matteo Corner ROME — The return home of an Italian aid worker who was held hostage by a terror group in Somalia seemed to offer a moment […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks to the Chancellery after the government questioning in the Bundestag in Berlin, Wednesday, May 13   –   Copyright  Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said there is “hard evidence” that she was targeted by Russian hackers in what she called “outrageous” spying attempts. The comments follow reports in German news outlet […]

(Daniel Gasienica/Moment/Getty Image In November 2019, before the world had even heard of the novel coronavirus, 14 children on the Pacific island nation of Samoa were hooked up to ventilators. They were each fighting for their lives against a different, but also highly infectious viral disease: the measles. During that outbreak, 81 Samoans died, and they were all […]

Lamine Mouhamed Kébé, a final-year mechanical engineering student at the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique in Dakar, Senegal, and coordinator of the “Dr. Car” project, handles a small robot in the school’s lab on May 8, 2020. © Seyllou, AFP Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the West African state’s growing coronavirus problem with inventions such as […]

KABUL: Tuesday was one of the bloodiest and bleakest days in the nation’s history with hundreds of civilians and military personnel killed and fatally hurt in brutal countrywide terrorist attacks. Terrorists stormed a maternity hospital in west of Kabul on Tuesday morning, killing at least 16 people including four women and children and injured 16 […]

Transport secretary Grant Shapps commented on packed Tubes and buses as workers in England are urged to get back to work (Picture: w8media) The transport secretary said ‘there is no perfect way’ to ease lockdown rules while warning people against taking public transport today as people in England go back to work. Workers who are […]

MFILE PHOTO: Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam is seen as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. REUTERS Despite Egypt’s diplomatic efforts to reach comprehensive agreement over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia announced on Monday it is to start filling […]