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Global quandry on what to do next as virus infections approach 11.5m

As coronavirus cases around the world approach 11.5 million, governments are struggling with how to reopen their economies, leading some to reimpose shutdowns or scale back previous reopening plans. In Australia, officials announced Monday the closure of the border between Victoria and New South Wales, the country's two most populous states, after a spike in new infections. The closure is indefinite and marks the first such movein Australiasince ...

57% of white Americans without college degree rate Trump highly

Jul 8,2020

A new Gallup poll showed Monday that 38% of Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s White House performance, a figure largely unchanged in the...

Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota celebrate court decision

Jul 7,2020

A U.S. federal judge ruled Monday that a controversial pipeline that runs through Native American lands in North Dakota be shut down by August...

Philippines construction company gets military support in fighting CNT

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao, Philippines – Troops of the 37th Infantry Battalion, under 603rd Infantry Brigade, foiled a communist NPA (CNT) attempt to attack and...

Serial Twitter user Yair Netanyahu taking increasingly higher profile

JERUSALEM – As scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands trial for corruption, his 28-year-old son has emerged as a driving force in a counterattack...

Coronavirus ends life of Broadway actor in terrible way

Jul 6,2020

WASHINGTON, DC – Broadway actor Nick Cordero, aged 41, has passed away after a long battle with coronavirus. According to Variety, the veteran, known...

U.S. has more than a quarter of World’s Covid-19 cases

WASHINGTON, DC – The novel coronavirus is continuing to spread in the United States, particularly in the western and southern states. At the time...

Foreign Filipino workers stranded in Malaysia begin arriving home

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines July 5 (PIA) – The returning Filipinos who arrived Sunday in the city from Sabah in Malaysia say they are thankful...

Virus has exposed decadently-corrupt political-system of governments

Jul 5,2020

Wherever one is at anywhere in the world today – given the yet unknown first, second, third, fourth or however more waves of Covid-19...

Iran pleads for help in getting abducted diplomats and reporter freed

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran is rallying the international community in a bid to clarify the whereabouts, and return, of three Iranian diplomats and a...

After 19 years of war, U.S. ready to abandon Afghanistan to Taliban

Jul 4,2020

LONDON, UK – The only element of the Afghan peace plan going according to schedule is the withdrawal of American forces as the Taliban...

After excelling during pandemic, New Zealand ousts health minister

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand Health Minister David Clark resigned Thursday after recent controversies surrounding his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Clark was...

Venzuelan gas supplies being shipped from Iran face forfeiture to U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. government has filed a forfeiture complaint and warrant against four Iranian vessels travelling to Venezuela with more than a...

U.S. National Guard meeting global commitments despite pandemic

Some 120,000 members of the U.S. National Guard have responded this year to natural disasters – floods in Michigan, wildfires in Kansas and tornadoes...

Trump shrugs off polls, confident of re-election

Jul 3,2020

WASHINGTON, DC – Amid plummeting poll numbers and mounting pressure over his handling of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and reports of Russia...

Trump who vowed to end wars has dropped more bombs than Bush or Obama

On June 13, President Donald Trump told the graduating class at West Point, “We are ending the era of endless wars.” That is what...

687 Indians reunited with families after being left stranded in Iran

Jul 2,2020

THOOTHUKUDI, Tamil Nadi, India – The Indian Navy Ship Jalashwa, carrying 687 stranded citizens, including two women, arrived in Tuticorin harbour on Wednesday after...