Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced 252 million Canadian dollars (US $179 million) to the agri-food sector to help protect farmers and food processors against the COVID-19 pandemic. The money …
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Washington: A woman in the US state of Michigan has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop …
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Seoul: South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday offered kids a virtual tour of his office, as a replacement for an annual Children’s Day event on the Cheong Wa Dae …
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Hong Kong: The Hong Kong government is set to roll out more measures to prop up economy, the city’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Tuesday. At a press conference, …
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Washington: The global number of deaths due to the novel coronavirus has surpassed the 250,000 mark, according to the the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the global death toll …
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San Francisco: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the most populous US state will enter a second stage of COVID-19 recovery at the end of this week, allowing some retail businesses …
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Washington: An influential COVID-19 model produced by the University of Washington revised its projections, estimating over 134,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States through August. The model, from the Institute for …
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Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the government had decided to gradually ease the lockdown in the coming days, keeping in view the ground realities, especially the economic situation …
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Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the ultimate measure of success in fighting COVID-19 will not be how fast the tools are developed but how equally …
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Tehran: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that a recent US move to cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) hampers global fight against the novel coronavirus, official IRNA news agency …
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