Covid-19: US Treasury launches 20-year bond to help finance record borrowing

Donald Trump, US president WASHINGTON, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Treasury Department said it will launch a long-planned 20-year bond and increase securities auction sizes across a range of maturities to raise cash to meet record government borrowing needs caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak. Treasury also made clear…

Palestine To Sue U.S. For Supporting Israel’s Plans To Annex Palestinian Lands

RAMALLAH, May 7 (NNN-WAFA) – The Palestinian justice minister, said, the Palestinian Authority intends to file lawsuits against the U.S., for supporting Israel’s plans to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank. “We are looking for legal mechanisms to hold the U.S. government accountable, in committing war crimes against the…

Covid-19: Latest global developments

PARIS, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Here are some of the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: At least 257,687 people have died of the novel coronavirus since theepidemic surfaced in China late last year, according to official sources. There have been more than 3,675,869 officially recorded cases spanning 195 countries…

Covid-19: US services sector ends decade of growth, contracts in April – survey

WASHINGTON, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The coronavirus pandemic slammed the US service sector in April, sending it contracting for the first time in nearly 11 years, according to an industry survey. The drop in the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) non-manufacturing index — to 41.8 percent from 52.5 percent in…

Sudan appoints first US ambassador in decades

The US shut its embassy in Khartoum between 1996 and 2002 KHARTOUM, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Veteran diplomat Noureldin Sati has been appointed Sudan’s ambassador to the US. “The approval comes as part of normalising US and Sudanese diplomatic relations after being at the level of chargé d’affaires for over…

Covid-19: Brazilian Amazon mayor pleads for world help on virus

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — 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…

Covid-19: More than 15,000 deaths in Latin America

MONTEVIDEO, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 15,000 people have been killed by the novel coronavirus in Latin America and the Caribbean as of 0230 GMT Wednesday, according to official reports. Across the region more than 282,000 COVID-19 cases have been officially reported. Topping the death toll list is Brazil,…

Covid-19: US deaths rise by 2,333 in 24 hours – Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US coronavirus death toll climbed by 2,333 in the past 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Tuesday, more than twice as many as the day before. The Baltimore-based university said as of 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Wednesday) that the country had…

Covid-19: New York reports 15 child cases of rare disease linked to coronavirus

NEW YORK, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fifteen children have been hospitalized in New York with a rare inflammatory disease possibly linked to coronavirus, officials said, in the latest reports of the worrying syndrome. Kawasaki disease is a mysterious illness that primarily affects children up to the age of five and…

Covid-19: White House readies to scrap Trump’s coronavirus task force

WASHINGTON, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — In the latest sign that the Trump administration no longer considers the coronavirus pandemic its top daily priority, the White House is set to disband the emergency task force handling the outbreak. Vice President Mike Pence said that the emergency task force he heads will…
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