Covid-19: Chinese doctors join Zimbabwe’s coronavirus fight

HARARE, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A team of 12 Chinese doctors have arrived in Zimbabwe to help in the fight against coronavirus. The southern Africa nation has confirmed 36 cases in total and four deaths. The doctors, from China’s Hunan Province, arrived in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, on Monday with test…

Covid-19: Tentative restart for Indian trains even as virus cases surge

NEW DELHI, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — India’s enormous railway network was grinding back to life Tuesday in a gradual lifting of the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown, even as new cases surge. The country imposed a strict shutdown in late March, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has credited with keeping…

US official tells Iran to send plane for prisoner exchange

WASHINGTON, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and Iran clashed Monday on the prospect of a prisoner swap, with a US official mockingly urging the adversary to send a plane to repatriate its citizens. An Iranian government spokesman said Sunday that Tehran had offered “some time ago” to exchange…

China exempts more US goods from tariffs as virus hits economy

BEIJING, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China on Tuesday released a list of 79 items from the United States that will be exempted from trade war tariffs, a day after the US ruled out renegotiating their earlier trade deal. The list of goods, posted online by the Customs Tariff Commission of…

S. Korea’s drop in jobs sharpest since 1999 amid virus pandemic

SEOUL: Clubs, bars closed amid virus concerns. A man walks past a bar in Sinchon in western Seoul on May 10, 2020. The Seoul city government issued an administrative order suspending business at clubs and bars after dozens of infections were reported in relation to a man who tested positive…

At least seven dead, 22 injured from Indonesia oil tanker fire

MEDAN (Indonesia), May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Rescuers have discoveredthe charred remains of at least seven people a day after a series ofexplosions aboard an Indonesian oil tanker, and police said Tuesday the toll could rise. The dead were among dozens trapped on the 250-metre JagLeela when it burst into flames…

Covid-19: New cases threaten world’s moves back to work

MOSCOW, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — World powers including Russia andIndia pushed on with easing coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday,despite upsurges in infections in parts of the world and warnings of asecond wave epidemic. Chinese authorities, meanwhile, moved to test the entire 11-millionstrong population of the city of Wuhan, cradle of the…

Covid-19: India PM announces US$270 bln virus economic package

NEW DELHI, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a US$270 billion stimulus package for labourers and small businesses to boost flagging growth as the country grapples with the impact of the coronavirus and weeks-long lockdown. The package — worth about 10 percent of India’s GDP —…

Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 11 more deaths, 969 fresh positive cases

DHAKA, May 13 (NNN-BSS) — Bangladesh reported 11 more deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 969 fresh positive cases overnight. “Eleven more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 250,” DGHS Additional Director General (administration) Prof Nasima Sultana told a…

16 killed in Kabul hospital attack, including two infants: govt

A baby is taken away by ambulance after gunmen attacked a maternity hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan KABUL, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long shoot-out with the police and killing 16 people, including…
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