Issued on: 08/05/2020 – 06:24 A white former police officer and his son were arrested on Thursday in Georgia and charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, an incident that touched off a furor in the community and among civil rights activists nationwide. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34, were taken into […]
China, US agree to move forward with trade deal despite Covid-19 blame game
Issued on: 08/05/2020 – 05:23Modified: 08/05/2020 – 05:23 Chinese and US trade representatives agreed Friday to “create favourable conditions” for the phase one trade deal signed in January, Beijing officials said, despite recent tensions over the coronavirus pandemic. China’s Vice Premier Liu He, who had led Beijing’s negotiations, held a call on Friday morning with […]
Brazil faces ‘economic collapse’ in 30 days due to lockdown: economy minister
Issued on: 08/05/2020 – 02:06Modified: 08/05/2020 – 02:06 Brazil could face “economic collapse” in a month’s time due to stay-at-home measures to stem the coronavirus outbreak, with food shortages and “social disorder,” Economy Minister Paulo Guedes warned Thursday. Brazil, Latin America’s biggest economy, is also the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the region.But far-right […]
Biden should quit White House race, says sexual assault accuser Tara Reade
Issued on: 08/05/2020 – 02:39Modified: 08/05/2020 – 02:39 The woman who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 called on him to drop out of the US presidential race, saying Thursday she’d take a polygraph about the alleged encounter if he would. Tara Reade said in March that Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, […]
Covid-19: French chef Ripert feeds New York’s front-line medical workers
Issued on: 07/05/2020 – 10:21Modified: 07/05/2020 – 10:21 Before coronavirus struck New York, one of the world’s premier seafood restaurants Le Bernardin was offering tasting menus including striped bass truffle tartare and grilled lobster mi-cuit. Today it serves up hundreds of plastic trays of roast chicken, rice and cabbage to feed the city’s medical workers.Eric […]
Merkel says Germany’s re-opening will have ’emergency brake’ in case Covid-19 spikes
Issued on: 07/05/2020 – 06:21Modified: 07/05/2020 – 06:20 Chancellor Angela Merkel announced steps on Wednesday to ease the coronavirus lockdown in Germany but at the same time launched an “emergency brake” mechanism allowing for renewed restrictions in case infections pick up again. Declaring an end to the first phase of the pandemic in Germany, Merkel said there was […]
Maduro says two captured American ‘mercenaries’ will be tried in Venezuela
Issued on: 07/05/2020 – 02:37Modified: 07/05/2020 – 02:37 Venezuela will try two Americans allegedly captured during a failed raid by mercenaries, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday as the US vowed to “use every tool available” to bring them home. Venezuela announced on Monday that it had arrested the pair on suspicion of trying to topple Maduro in […]
Trump vetoes Congress resolution to limit his right to war with Iran
Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 23:38Modified: 07/05/2020 – 00:34 US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed what he called a “very insulting” congressional resolution seeking to limit his war powers in Iran. In a statement, Trump said he had used his veto because the resolution — a rare bipartisan rebuke to the president approved in March — […]
Brazilian Amazon mayor begs for world help in fight against Covid-19
Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 10:34Modified: 06/05/2020 – 10:34 The mayor of Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest region, asked world leaders Tuesday for help fighting the novel coronavirus, which has brought his city’s health system to the brink of collapse. Manaus is the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, which has been […]
NYC housing activists call for nationwide #CancelRent strike
Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 09:26Modified: 06/05/2020 – 09:26 In hard-hit New York, thousands of people have joined a rent strike movement dubbed #CancelRent as the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread. They’re now calling for a nationwide strike on the same theme. FRANCE 24 reports from New York City. When the landlord […]
Trump calls for economy to reopen as he tours Arizona face-mask factory without a mask
Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 05:21 Without wearing a face-covering himself, President Donald Trump toured a new medical mask factory in Arizona on Tuesday, taking a rare trip out of Washington to visit a state he hopes to win in the November election even as Americans avoid travel to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Touching down in […]
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalised for gallbladder condition
Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 03:57 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has had a series of health scares, underwent non-surgical treatment for a gallbladder condition on Tuesday and is “resting comfortably,” a court spokeswoman said. Ginsburg, 87, had a gallstone that had caused an infection and was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in […]
Trump says Venezuela alleged plot has ‘nothing to do’ with US govt
Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 18:01Modified: 05/05/2020 – 18:01 President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied any involvement by the U.S. government in what Venezuelan officials have called a failed armed incursion in the South American country that led to the capture of two American “mercenaries.” Trump made the comment to reporters at the White House after […]
Venezuela arrests two US ‘mercenaries’ after alleged raid to capture Maduro
Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 08:04Modified: 05/05/2020 – 08:04 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say they foiled. Maduro held up a pair of blue U.S. passports, reading off the […]
WHO says no proof from US on ‘speculative’ claims virus came from Wuhan lab
Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 08:45Modified: 05/05/2020 – 08:45 The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support “speculative” claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab. “We have not received any data or specific evidence from the United States government relating to the purported […]
The New York Times, Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica win Pulitzer prizes
Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 04:33 The New York Times picked up the most awards as the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced virtually on Monday owing to the coronavirus outbreak. Prize board administrator Dana Canedy declared the winners from her living room via a livestream on YouTube rather than at a ceremony at New York’s Columbia University.The […]
Peru’s opposition leader Keiko Fujimori freed from prison
Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 00:52 Peru’s opposition leader Keiko Fujimori was released on Monday from a 15-month pre-trial detention on corruption charges after just three months, an AFP reporter witnessed. Fujimori, who left the woman’s prison in the capital Lima on bail wearing a face mask and white gloves, had earlier announced on Twitter that […]
Researchers predict US Covid-19 death rate will nearly double due to easing
Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 01:02 A new forecast projects nearly 135,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of August mainly due to reopening measures under way, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said on Monday. The forecast U.S. death toll through early August […]
Bolsonaro rallies the right as Brazil coronavirus cases surpass 100,000
Issued on: 04/05/2020 – 07:39Modified: 04/05/2020 – 07:39 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked Congress and the courts in a speech to hundreds of supporters on Sunday as the number of coronavirus cases blew past 100,000 in Brazil, underlining the former army captain’s increasing isolation as he downplays the impacts of the pandemic. The right-wing Bolsonaro […]
Venezuela says foiled attempt to overthrow Maduro
Issued on: 04/05/2020 – 03:37 Venezuela’s government said it foiled a marine incursion on Sunday by “terrorist mercenaries” who attempted to enter the country on speedboats from neighboring Colombia, which opposition leaders dismissed as a staged incident. President Nicolas Maduro frequently accuses political adversaries of attempting to overthrow him with the backing of Washington, which […]
Trump promises Covid-19 vaccine by end of the year
Issued on: 04/05/2020 – 03:46 President Donald Trump relaunched his election campaign Sunday with a live television event inside the iconic Lincoln Memorial, promising an early coronavirus vaccine and urging Americans to put the pandemic behind them to embrace an “incredible” future. With the two-hour long Fox News “town hall,” Trump sought to wrap himself […]
Pompeo says ‘enormous evidence’ coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab
Issued on: 03/05/2020 – 17:00Modified: 03/05/2020 – 17:00 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, echoing a claim made by President Donald Trump earlier this week. “There is enormous evidence that this is where it began,” the US secretary […]
Fashion designers sew medical gowns for New York hospital staff
Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 15:41Modified: 02/05/2020 – 16:37 When they saw pictures of health workers in their city struggling with a lack of protective gear, a trio of fashion designers from New York’s famed garment district stitched together a plan to help out.The designers, who work for haute couture label Oscar de la Renta, launched their own […]
US protests against Covid-19 lockdowns spread to liberal bastion California
Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 06:53Modified: 02/05/2020 – 06:53 Protesters marched in several cities across California on Friday demanding the easing of restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak and denouncing Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to shut down some beaches. The protests were taking place in at least 11 cities, including the capital Sacramento as well as […]
Venezuela prison riot leaves dozens dead
Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 07:38Modified: 02/05/2020 – 07:38 A riot erupted at a prison in central Venezuela on Friday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 50 more, including a National Guard officer who was wounded by an explosion and the warden, who suffered a knife wound, authorities said. The upheaval at the Llanos Penitentiary […]
White House blocks top virus expert Fauci from testifying to Congress on govt Covid-19 response
Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 03:44Modified: 02/05/2020 – 03:44 Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said on Friday, calling it “counterproductive” to have individuals involved in the response testify. The White House issued an emailed statement after […]
US approves remdesivir drug to treat Covid-19 patients, says Trump
Issued on: 01/05/2020 – 22:58Modified: 01/05/2020 – 22:59 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorisation to Gilead Sciences Inc. for emergency use of its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat patients with Covid-19, President Donald Trump announced on Friday. US medical officials have announced evidence from a trial that remdesivir helped patients with […]
Canada bans assault weapons in wake of deadliest mass shooting
Issued on: 01/05/2020 – 21:24Modified: 01/05/2020 – 21:24 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced an immediate ban on military-grade assault weapons, responding to a mass shooting and arson spree that left 22 people dead earlier this month. “These weapons were designed for one purpose, and one purpose only: to kill the largest number […]
Covid-19: After conflicting studies, effectiveness of remdesivir still in question
A US study published this week raised great hope for the effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of patients with Covid-19. But results of a similar study in China seemed to show the opposite. Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a prominent […]
Biden denies Tara Reade sex assault allegation, saying it ‘never happened’
Issued on: 01/05/2020 – 15:26Modified: 01/05/2020 – 15:26 US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former staffer, saying the incident she claims occurred 27 years ago “never happened.” “They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said in a statement regarding the accusations made by Tara Reade, a former staffer in […]