After seeing low number of coronavirus case in the early stage of worldwide outbreak, Brazil is staring at a catastrophe as cases spike at apocalyptic rates with more than 25,000 infections recorded in last 24 hours. Reuters The country reported a daily record of 26,417 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to the Health Ministry, …
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In what will be a common theme as United States goes to elections later this year, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called his Republican rival Donald Trump an “absolute fool” for not wearing a mask at a series of recent public events. Reuters The Democrat criticised Trump and said his lack of leadership on the issue is “costing peoples’ …
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US President Donald Trump went out to play golf for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Reuters He visited his club in the Washington suburbs as per a Reuters report. Reuters His motorcade took him from the White House to Trump National Golf Club. Trump is promoting the fact that USA is going back to normal, although the …
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The PIA plane was flying very “smoothly” but while attempting to land, it “jolted” thrice and then the pilot “adroitly lifted” the aircraft off the ground, only to crash moments later, recalls Muhammad Zubair, one of the two survivors of the crash. Zubair was among 99 passengers aboard the PIA Airbus A-320 aircraft which crashed into a populated residential area …
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It has been almost 19 years since the fatal 9/11 attacks that shook the United States. In a new development, the only man ever convicted in a US court for a role in the attacks has said that he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the Islamic State. AP Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in …
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China allowed its people to travel abroad despite knowing the risk transmitting coronavirus, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has alleged. He also said that President Donald Trump will decide on the future course of action on penalising the country, as per a PTI report. Pompeo’s comments came after Trump said that he does not want to talk to Xi …
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US President Donald Trump said his predecessor Barack Obama was a ‘grossly incompetent president’. This reaction was after Obama criticised USA’s response to handling the coronavirus pandemic. AFP “He was an incompetent president. That’s all I can say. Grossly incompetent,” Trump told reporters at the White House according to PTI. While talking to college graduates, Obama said that COVID-19 had …
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The coronavirus pandemic has crippled life across the globe and brought upon one of the biggest health calamities in decades. It has overwhelmed even the best of healthcare systems and left them reeling. As countries are scrapping to find the cure for the disease, there are serious concerns that the vaccine might not be universally available whenever there is one. …
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An engineer of Indian origin is being charged by prosecutors with making fraudulent applications for over $10 million loans under USA’s COVID-19 relief programme, as per a report in IANS. Shashank Rai “fraudulently pursued millions of dollars in loans intended for legitimate small businesses suffering the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic”, said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski when the …
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US President Donald Trump abruptly left a press conference after getting into a heated argument with journalists, according to a TNN report. Before the briefing ended, Trump took questions from a reporter for nearly 40 minutes, but he stormed out after engaging with Weijia Jiang from CBS and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. When Jiang, who is of Chinese descent asked him …
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