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OPEC+ meeting delayed as Saudi Arabia and Russia row over oil price collapse
The delay came amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries led by Saudi Arabia and its allies, a group collectively known as OPEC+, to urgently stabilise global oil markets. Oil prices hit
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Trump: ‘Going to be a lot of death’ in U.S. next week from coronavirus
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump told Americans to brace for a big spike in coronavirus fatalities in the coming days, as the country faces what he called the toughest two weeks of the pandemic. “There’s going to be a lot of
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Coronavirus or not, 78% of dating app Crush users risk it all to meet in person
NEW YORK, April 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In a survey of more than 4,000 of its users, creators of the dating app, Crush, report that 78% of respondents say that they would still choose to meet their matches in person during
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Hisham: COVID-19 vaccine production still in the early phase
PUCHONG: Health Ministry director general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today said COVID-19 vaccine is still in the early phase of development. Hisham said World Health Organization (WHO) is still researching a few compounds to develop the coronavirus vaccine. “It
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COVID 19 –Need to break patent strangle holds of Big Pharmaceuticals
While the world is courageously fighting the Covid19 pandemic, we have to reflect on the pharmaceutical industry on whether it has effectively played its role to safeguard us from such diseases. Unfortunately this global trillion dollar industry has not been
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U.S. Navy relieves aircraft carrier commander who wrote letter urging coronavirus action
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Navy relieved the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt’s captain of his command on Thursday, punishing him for the leak of a scathing letter he sent to superiors that sought stronger measures for curbing a coronavirus outbreak aboard the
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Trump negative for coronavirus again, says wearing masks okay
WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said he underwent a second coronavirus test on Thursday, using a new diagnostic that produced a result in less than 15 minutes, and it determined he has not been infected. “I think I took it
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Most Americans huddle indoors as coronavirus deaths keep spiking
LOS ANGELES: Four new states imposed sweeping stay-at-home directives on Wednesday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, putting over 80% of Americans under lockdown as the number of deaths in the United States nearly doubled in three days. The governors
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New York scolds ‘selfish’ residents, California intensive care beds running out
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: The governor of New York on Wednesday clamped down harder on public gatherings in the face of the coronavirus, calling residents “selfish” for refusing to stay home as California’s governor warned his state may run out of
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U.S. death toll spirals amid rush to build field hospitals, find supplies
NEW YORK/ LOS ANGELES :The U.S. government raced on Tuesday to build hundreds of makeshift hospitals near major cities as healthcare systems were pushed to capacity, and sometimes beyond, by the coronavirus pandemic. Even as millions of Americans hunkered down
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