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New COVID-19 cases fall in China, but WHO concerned by global spread
BEIJING: China reported a sharp fall in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus yesterday but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections continued to rise in other countries. Chinese
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WHO: Results from clinical trials of therapeutics on COVID-19 due in three weeks
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said that preliminary results from clinical trials of therapeutics against COVID-19 are expected in three weeks, reported Xinhua, yesterday. “We’re also looking forward to results from two clinical trials of therapeutics prioritised by the
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Trump: Why Oscar award for ‘Parasite’? We’ve got enough issues with Seoul!
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo: US President Donald Trump ridiculed the historic best-picture Oscar win for South Korean film “Parasite,” telling a campaign rally he wished for the return of Hollywood classics like 1939’s “Gone with the Wind,” yesterday. “Parasite,” a dark
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Disillusionment among women, youth may dampen Iran election turnout
DUBAI: Middle-aged men have been plastered on campaign posters and online adverts this week ahead of Iran’s parliamentary election, even though women and young people make up the majority of voters. Roughly a third of Iran’s electorate is between 18
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‘US intelligence told lawmakers of Russian bid to boost Trump re-election’
WASHINGTON: US intelligence officials told lawmakers last week that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign by aiming to cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and boost President Donald Trump’s re-election, a person familiar with the briefing
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‘Suspected shisha bar gunman published racist manifesto’
HANAU: A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views, prosecutors said yesterday. The presumed attacker,
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Judge sentences Stone to 3-1/3 years imprisonment, reprimands Trump
WASHINGTON: A federal judge yesterday sentenced President Donald Trump’s long-time adviser Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison and said his lies to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election posed a threat to
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Scientists refute theories suggesting COVID-19 has no natural origin
LONDON: Health experts from multiple countries have rejected claims that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin, and condemned related conspiracy theories, reported Xinhua news agency. “We are public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel
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COVID-19: Two Iranians die, no contact with Chinese nationals
TEHRAN: Two Iranians who died from the novel coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, in the city of Qom had no any contact with Chinese citizens or people who have visited China, Masoud Mardani, a member of the National Committee on Infectious Diseases
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Iranian parliamentary election campaign period ends
DUBAI: Campaigning officially ended today for Iran’s parliamentary election, state media said, a day before a vote seen as a litmus test of the popularity of the Islamic republic. The vote to pick 290 lawmakers is Iran’s first since U.S.
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