President Trump administration awards contract to make COVID-19 drugs
President Trump administration awarded a four-year, $354m contract to Phlow Corp to make COVID-19 drugs, other essential drugs and their…
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Left-wing defectors from Macron party announced new group
Left-wing defectors from French President Emmanuel Macron’s governing party announced the creation of a new group in France’s lower house…
Saudi Binladen Group lays off thousands of workers
Saudi Binladin Group cut jobs and reduced staff salaries as Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction firm navigates the fallout of the…
Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong dragged out of legislative session
Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong were dragged out of a legislative council session in a melee that broke out over…
Former US president criticises virus response
Former US president Barack Obama tells college graduates the coronavirus pandemic shows many officials ‘aren’t even pretending to be in…
Ashraf Ghani and rival strike power-sharing deal
Ashraf Ghani and his rival signed a power-sharing deal to end political stalemate, a step that could smooth efforts to…
Germans across the country stage protests against lockdown measures
Germans across country took to streets to protest against restrictions imposed by the government to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Portugal suspended imports of trash until the end of 2020
Portugal attracts huge mounds of rubbish from EU states because of its low waste management fees, suspended imports of trash…
Trump signaled further deterioration of relationship with China
Trump signaled further deterioration of his relationship with China over the Pandemic outbreak, saying he has no interest in speaking…
COVID-19 vaccine ‘won’t be expensive’,developer says
COVID-19 vaccine will be priced to allow as wide as possible access to it, if it proves successful,will be made…
Britain rejects calls to publish detailed data of care-home deaths
Britain declined to disclose number of COVID-19 deaths in individual care homes,as Campaigners for welfare of elderly people calling for…
Top court in Hungary confirms Roma unlawfully segregated, awards compensation
Top court in Hungary said that a Hungarian school unlawfully segregated minority Roma students for years, granting 100 million forints…
Poland plans to propose mail-only presidential election, sources say
Poland coalition plans to propose legislation to allow both postal and in-person voting in a presidential election postponed from last…
Britain to introduce 14 days quarantine period for travellers
Britain has told airlines it will introduce 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid…
Irish FM says Brexit trade talks timeline ‘virtually impossible’
Irish FM has said that coronavirus pandemic has made an already difficult timeline for a British-European Union trade deal “virtually…
Taiwan bid to attend key WHO meeting will fail,China says
Taiwan will fail in its bid to join key meeting of WHO amid efforts to rein in pandemic as its…
EU commissioner says we must go ‘back to the future’ of open borders after COVID-19
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has said that European Union must go ‘back to the future’ of open borders…
China says it supports WHO in tracing COVID-19, denounces US ‘lies’
China said it supports WHO in trying to pinpoint the origins of COVID-19 and accused Mike Pompeo of telling one…
New York Democratic presidential primary will take place as planned
New York state Democratic presidential primary will take place as planned next month, District Judge Analisa Torres ruled.
Sharjah residential tower fire wounded dozen
Sharjah residential tower fire wounded at least 12 people while authorities gave no cause for the blaze, which smouldered into…
Scottish schools reopening too early could ‘overwhelm’ NHS
Scottish primary schools fully reopening would “most likely” see the NHS overwhelmed by coronavirus within two months, Nicola Sturgeon has…
German top court ruling on bond purchases sparks worries over EU resilience
German top court (Federal Court of Justice) rules country’s central bank must justify bond-buying under European Central Bank stimulus scheme.