Covid-19: US airlines to end year with 90,000 fewer workers

NEW YORK, Nov 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hit with a collapse of demand, USairlines will end the year with the lowest number of workers since at least1987, 90,000 fewer than when Covid-19 hit, an industry federation said. Airlines for America said the number of full-time equivalent positions willdrop to 370,000 at…

US election: ‘No evidence’ of lost or changed votes, as Trump claims – officials

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Senior US federal and state election officials said that there was “no evidence” that votes were lost orchanged, or voting systems corrupted, in the presidential election. The officials, responsible for election security across the country,rejected claims made by President Donald Trump and Republicans that fraud…

US election: State Department preventing Pres-elect Biden from accessing congratulatory messages from foreign leaders

Joe Biden WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them, according to State Department officials familiar with the messages.Traditionally, the State Department supports all communications for…

Argentina president self-isolating over possible virus exposure

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez BUENOS AIRES, Nov 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez said he was self-isolating due to possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.In a post on Twitter, Fernandez said that he was a “close contact” of Secretary for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency Gustavo Beliz, who tested…

US election: Pope Francis congratulates Pres-elect Joe Biden

Pope Francis is the latest in a long list of world leaders who have acknowledged Biden’s victory WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Pope Francis became the latest in a string of world leaders congratulating Joe Biden on his projected victory in the 2020 election, even as President Trump and a…

Covid-19 vaccine ‘best science news’ of 2020: pharmaceutical association

GENEVA, Nov 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Data indicating that a vaccine being developed against Covid-19 is highly effective is the “best science news of the year”, a pharmaceutical industry association chief said, voicing hope that other vaccine candidates would show equally good results. “A vaccine that has 90 percent efficacy and…

Covid-19: Cases still surging in the Americas, the WHO warns

A man stands in line to be tested for COVID-19 in Staten Island, New York BRASILIA, Nov 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — COVID-19 cases are still surging in the Americas, averaging 150,000 a day in last week, the World Health Organization’s regional office said. The United States continues to report record-breaking numbers,…

Mexican president stands firm on not recognising Biden win, yet

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador MEXICO CITY, Nov 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador dug in his heels as one of the few leaders of major countries yet to congratulate Joe Biden on his presidential election win, saying it was too early and that his country…

Brazil’s health regulator allows resumption of Chinese vaccine trial

BRASILIA, Nov 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazill health regulator Anvisa allowed resumption of late-stage clinical trials for China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, which had been suspended due to the death of a study subject that was registered in Sao Paulo as a suicide. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime China skeptic who has baselessly…

Bolivia resumes diplomatic ties with Iran, Venezuela

Bolivia’s President Luis Arce LA PAZ, Nov 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Bolivian government of President Luis Arce resumed diplomatic relations with Iran and Venezuela, Bolivia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed on Wednesday. Both Iran and Venezuela have immediately appointed their ambassadors to Bolivia, a year after Bolivia’s opposition-backed interim government, led…
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