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France’s stock of face masks declined from a high of 2.2 billion a decade ago to just over 100 million on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. © Benoît Tessier, REUTERS An investigation by French daily Le Monde has uncovered the extraordinary chain of events that led successive French governments to build an ambitious pandemic response […]

China’s rail freight volume, an indicator of broad economic activity, rose slightly in the first four months of the year. The country’s state-operated railways carried a total of 1.09 billion tonnes of freight during the January-April period. In April alone, the railways transported 267 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 0.2 percent from a […]

Turkey delivered medical aid equipment to Kazakhstan in order to support the global combat against the novel coronavirus pandemic, May 9, 2020. (İHA Photo) As part of its comprehensive efforts to promote global solidarity against the deadly coronavirus pandemic, Turkey most recently delivered medical aid to Kazakhstan Turkey on Saturday sent medical aid equipment to […]

Silvia Romano , the 25-year-old volunteer released yesterday after being kidnapped on November 20, 2018 in Kenya, is expected at Ciampino at 2pm . Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will be present.  “I was strong and I resisted. I’m fine and I can’t wait to go back to Italy”. These are the first words of Silvia, freed 30 kilometers from […]

Venezuela announced that an armed group launched an invasion before dawn on Sunday by boat, attacking through the port city of La Guaira. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said on state television that Venezuelan forces overcame the attackers. He did not say who the assailants were but identified them as coming from Colombia. “In the early […]

In this file photo former US President Barack Obama speaks during the “Bits & Pretzels” start-ups and founder congress in Munich, Germany, September 29, 2019, © Christof Stache, AFP Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an “absolute chaotic disaster” during a conversation with ex-members of his administration, […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the military demarcation line at Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone in April 2018. (Yonhap) South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for anti-virus cooperation with North Korea as a way to break the impasse between the two Koreas, and for less dependence on the […]

     Overall, 1,827 people have been killed by the virus so far in Russia.Sofiya Sandurskaya / Moskva News Agency Russia confirmed 10,817 new coronavirus infections Saturday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 198,676. Russia now has the world’s second-fastest rate of new infections behind the United States. It is the fifth most-affected country in terms of […]

Copyright  Buckingham Palace/AP Queen Elizabeth the II said the streets were “filled with love” in reference to coronavirus as she made a rare VE Day commemorative speech to the British public. Speaking on Friday evening at the same time her father George VI spoke to the nation 75 years earlier, the 94-year-old acknowledged that the anniversary […]

DONALD Trump said he did not wear a mask when he met elderly World War Two veterans today as he was “far away”. The President and Melania were pictured alongside the heroes, aged between 96 to 100, to honor the 75th anniversary of VE Day. On Friday, the president met with World War II heroesCredit: AP:Associated […]