Global trade is expected to drop around 18.5% year-on-year in the second quarter of this year in a huge coronavirus-driven plunge which nonetheless could have been much worse, the World Trade Organization said Tuesday. The WTO said that in the first quarter, the volume of merchandise trade shrank by three percent compared to the same three months in 2019. “Initial …
People in Saudi Arabia ventured out on Sunday night for the first time in three months to celebrate the end of a nationwide coronavirus curfew, dining out, cruising on motorcycles and walking pets after the daytime heat subsided. The kingdom introduced stringent measures in March to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus, including 24-hour curfews in most towns and cities, …
Three people were killed and another three seriously injured when a man went on a stabbing spree in a park in the southern English town of Reading on Saturday, though police said they were not currently treating the incident as terrorism. Witnesses said a man went on the rampage at around 18:00 GMT in Forbury Gardens, stabbing people at random …
Construction of China’s space station moves a step closer with the successful maiden flight of its new large carrier rocket, the Long March-5B, on Tuesday. The Long March-5B was specially developed to launch the space station modules, said Wang Jue, chief director of the rocket development team at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) under the China Aerospace …
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced they had successfully launched the country’s first military satellite on Wednesday, at a time of fresh tensions with US forces in the Gulf. The United States alleges Iran’s satellite programme is a cover for its development of missiles, while the Islamic republic has previously insisted its aerospace activities comply with its international obligations. Tensions between the …
A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in an Atlantic Canada shooting rampage, federal police said on Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, was shot dead by officers after a 12-hour manhunt in Nova Scotia province ended on Sunday morning. Among the victims …
BEIJING: China has warned the United States of America (US) against stigmatization campaign aimed in the name of Coronavirus pandemic, with its foreign ministry saying that Stigmatization of China will not benefit the US. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said that smearing campaign against China would not help the US save from Coronavirus as he urged the people of the …
The global death toll from coronavirus surged past 150,000 Friday as US President Donald Trump accused China of continuing to cover up its toll, even after Beijing revised figures sharply upward for Wuhan, the original epicenter of the global pandemic. COVID-19 fatalities mounted in the United States and hard-hit Western Europe countries, but fresh data on rising infections and deaths …
Nigerian security forces have killed 18 people in their enforcement of measures to curb coronavirus, a figure higher than the documented toll inflicted by the disease, the country’s human rights body claimed on Wednesday. Africa’s most populous nation has imposed a total lockdown in megacity Lagos and the capital Abuja and set restrictions in other regions in a bid to …