Covid-19: UN raises alarm about police brutality in lockdowns

Police officers detain a person during a demonstration against the lockdown GENEVA, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN human rights office voiced concern about more than a dozen countries that have declared states of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic where police have arrested or detained hundreds of thousands of people…

Covid-19: Lockdowns begin to ease globally, but cases top three million

WASHINGTON, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide soared past three million on Monday as several European nations and a handful of US states began taking steps to reopen their shuttered economies. But as schools and shops reopened in some parts of Europe, British Prime Minister…

Covid-19: Pres Trump says he expects to see a ‘lot of schools’ open up

WASHINGTON, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump said he expects to see a “lot” of US schools reopen after being shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. “Many (state governors) are thinking about their school system,” Trump said at a daily White House briefing. “Not a long way to go…

Venezuela names official indicted by US as oil minister

CARACAS, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named a top official targeted by US sanctions as oil minister as the market for the country’s vital export is in tumult. Maduro tasked Tareck El Aissami — a vice president for the economy who has been indicted in the United…

Iran Says U.S. Should Respect Int’l Maritime Regulation

TEHRAN, Apr 28 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian Armed Forces, on Monday, said that, the vessels of the United States and its allies, should respect international regulations while passing through Iran’s southern waters in the Sea of Oman and the Gulf, Tehran Times daily reported. The Iranian Armed Forces said, in…

Covid-19: Pres Trump says may seek damages from China as the US recorded new 1,300 deaths

WASHINGTON, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump suggested that he may seek damages from China over the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread around the world. “We are not happy with China,” Trump said at a White House briefing. “We are not…

Turkish President Orders 3-Day Lock-down To Curb COVID-19 Spread

ISTANBUL, Apr 28 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared three days of lock-down in 31 provinces, starting from May 1, to curb the spread of COVID-19. After attending a video cabinet meeting from Istanbul, Erdogan said, weekend curfews would continue until the end of Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim…

Cuban doctors, nurses helping out worldwide in the fight against COVID-19

By R.Ravichandran KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) — A large number of Cuban healthcare professionals and personnel – some 1455 doctors, nurses and health technologists – are on the frontline in various parts of the world to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, said Cuba’s Ambassador to Malaysia Ibete Fernandez Hernandez. She…

Covid-19: ‘World should have listened to WHO’ – director

GENEVA, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization chief said that the agency had sounded the highest level of alarm over the novel coronavirus early on, but lamented that not all countries had heeded its advice. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out that the WHO warned the COVID-19 outbreak constituted…

Covid-19: Latest global developments

PARIS, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) –– Here are the latest developments in thecoronavirus crisis: Death toll: A total of 206,567 people have died worldwide since the epidemic surfaced among the more than 2.9 million cases reported in 193 countries or territories. The United States has the most deaths of any country…
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