Covid-19: 10 residents dead at Kansas nursing home

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly TOPEKA (Kansas, US), Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A coronavirus outbreak has killed 10 residents in a nursing home in a northwestern Kansas county that proportionally already had the nation’s largest increase in cases over two weeks. The health department in Norton County reported that all 62…

Covid-19: Sputnik V vaccine supplies to Latin America may start in December

MOSCOW, Oct 20 (NNN-TASS) – The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) plans to initiate supplies of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V to Argentina and Peru, chief executive of the Fund Kirill Dmitriev said during an online conference “We will announce shortly an agreement with Argentina and an agreement with…

Covid-19: Pelosi, Mnuchin continue US stimulus talks as Tuesday deadline nears

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made progress in US stimulus negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, an aide to the Democratic lawmaker said. Negotiations over another stimulus package to help the economy ravaged by Covid-19 have gone on for months, with Democrats pushing a $2.2 trillion…

US, Brazil sign ‘ambitious’ trade protocol

BRASILIA, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and Brazil signed three agreements Monday they said would expand and deepen their existing trade deal, the latest bonding moment under Presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil said talks on the “ambitious” agreements were launched when Bolsonaro, a far-right leader sometimes…

EU hails US plan to remove Sudan from terror blacklist

BRUSSELS, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The EU’s diplomatic chief welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is ready to remove Sudan from a US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism. The move, a major boost for Sudan’s civilian-backed government after decades as an international pariah, came after Khartoum agreed to…

Covid-19: Enforce quarantine to crush pandemic, says WHO

GENEVA, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Contacts of people confirmed to have coronavirus should be properly quarantined, the World Health Organization said, as the pandemic surges in Europe and North America. WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan linked soaring transmission rates in the northern hemisphere to the failure to implement the vital…

Covid-19: US Pres Trump slams govt top scientist Fauci ‘and all these idiots’

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump went after top government scientist Anthony Fauci in a call with campaign staffers on Monday, suggesting the hugely respected and popular doctor was an “idiot.” Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, has increasingly become a focus…

US presidential election: Early voting starts in Florida as race enters home stretch

MIAMI, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Florida voters converged on early polling stations Monday in a pivotal state fought over relentlessly by President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, as their contentious White House race enters its final 15-day stretch. Record numbers of Americans have already cast ballots in person…

Covid-19: Chilean gov’t says protests may cause potential spike in cases

Chile has been rocked by protests over inequality since October 2019 SANTIAGO, Oct 20 (NNN-Xinhua) — Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris said demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of social unrest on Sunday might cause potential spike in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections. “If in 14 days we have a coronavirus outbreak…

Bolivian presidential election: Runner-up Mesa concedes defeat

Carlos Mesa of Citizen Community party (CC)  LA PAZ, Oct 20 (NNN-Xinhua) — The runner-up in Bolivia’s presidential race, Carlos Mesa of the Citizen Community (CC) party, conceded defeat to rival Luis Arce Catacora, candidate of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). The result of exit polls by two pollsters showed…
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