Covid-19: US April employment to see largest collapse in history

WASHINGTON, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With shops and factories closed nationwide due to COVID-19, nearly all of the jobs created in the US economy in the last decade have been wiped out in a single month. That shocking job losses figure, along with a historic surge in the unemployment rate,…

China, US commit to implement trade deal despite virus row: official

BEIJING, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chinese and US trade representatives agreed 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…

North Korea lashes South for holding military drills as Kim praises China’s Xi

PYONGYANG, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — North Korea condemned the South for holding military drills, saying the situation was returning to before the diplomatic rapprochement of 2018, as leader Kim Jong Un — whose health was the subject of intense speculation in recent weeks — reached out to traditional ally Beijing.…

Covid-19: US deaths rise by 2,448 in 24 hours while Asia’s death toll passes 10,000

WASHINGTON, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States recorded 2,448 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 75,543, according to the latest real-time tally reported by Johns Hopkins University. The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — has…

Covid-19: World food prices fall sharply in April because of coronavirus – UN

ROME, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — World food prices fell for a third consecutive month in April, hit by the economic and logistical impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations food agency said.The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price-index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oil-seeds,…

Covid-19: Coronavirus researcher shot dead in US murder-suicide

Bing Liu was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania, US), May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An ethnic Chinese scientist working on the novel coronavirus in the United States has been shot dead in what police said was a murder-suicide over an “intimate partner”. Bing…

Covid-19: White House military aide tests positive for coronavirus

WASHINGTON, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A White House military aide reportedly part of a unit working closely alongside President Donald Trump — has tested positive for coronavirus, but Trump has not been infected, a spokesman said.“We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the…

Venezuela to present its case to international bodies, says Maduro

KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Venezuela will present to the United Nations Security Council the case of the attempt by certain groups to carry out a plot against the South American country, and will also present the evidence before the International Criminal Court (ICC), said President Nicolás Maduro. At an international press conference in…

Pres Maduro says captured Americans to be tried in Venezuela

The two captured Americans CARACAS, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela will try two Americans allegedly captured during a failed raid by mercenaries, President Nicolas Maduro said as the US vowed to “use every tool available” to bring them home. Venezuela announced on Monday that it had arrested the pair on…

Covid-19: Brazil hits new daily record for cases, deaths

A woman wearing a protective face mask prays outside a church BRASILIA, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil, one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots, registered a record number of cases and deaths on Wednesday, prompting the health minister to flag the possibility of strict lockdowns in particularly hard-hit areas.…
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