Iran on Wednesday reported 121 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing its overall number of fatalities to 3,993. In the past 24 hours, 1,997 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in Iran, state news agency IRNA quoted health…
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John Prine: Bruce Springsteen leads tributes to late singer
The Grammy-winning songwriter died on Tuesday, aged 73, due to Covid-19 complications, his publicist confirmed. Prine had been in hospital in Nashville since last week with coronavirus symptoms, with his wife and manager, Fiona Whelan Prine, posting updates about his…
Five Civilians Die In Turkey Bomb Attack.
Five civilians were killed on Wednesday when their car was hit in a bomb attack in Turkey’s southeast, local officials said. The governor of Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir province said the attack was carried out in the early hours by “members of…
Coronavirus:UK prime minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been hospitalized after showing persistent Coronavirus symptoms. The 55 year old politician took to social media on March 27, to announce he tested positive for the novel COVID-19 and had been in self-isolation at…
Eleven dead, four wounded in Colombian coal mine blast
Eleven people were killed and four injured in an accidental explosion at a Colombian coal mine in Cucunuba , near Bogota , on Saturday , according to the local fire department . The victims were miners who were working despite…
Romans-sur-Isère: France launches terror probe after knife attack
Two people have been killed and five wounded in a knife attack in south-east France, in what the interior minister called a terrorist incident. Witnesses said the attacker entered a tobacconist in the town of Romans-sur-Isère, near Grenoble, and stabbed…
Fact-check: Trump says some states aren’t in jeopardy from the virus, denies saying it would go away by April
Fact-checking Trump’s claim that scarves are better than masks Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledges the crowd at the end on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…
China to hold national mourning for coronavirus victims
event on Saturday (April 4) to commemorate those who died in its fight against the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, including 14 frontline workers. Starting at 10am, all people nationwide will observe a three-minute silence and cars, trains and ships will sound…
Singapore announces lockdown after surge in ‘local’ coronavirus cases
Most workplaces will close for a month in Singapore from April 7 , Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Friday , saying that the country needs to “make a decisive move now ” to stop coronavirus . “We will…
Wuhan records no coronavirus case for six days
China on Monday reported a drop in new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as drastic curbs on international travellers reined in the number of imported cases. Meanwhile, policymakers turned their efforts to healing the world’s second-largest economy. The city…