Roundup: WHO to review virus response as Trump renews attack

GENEVA, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization said it would launch an independent review of its response to the coronavirus pandemic as US President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the global body, branding it a “puppet of China”. Washington is locked in an increasingly bitter spat with…

Covid-19: India’s infections surge past 100,000, deaths top 3,000

A woman and her baby wait for a bus to take them to a railway station to board a train to their home state of Uttar Pradesh NEW DELHI, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Coronavirus cases in India reached 100,000 on Tuesday, matching the number of intensive care unit beds in…

Afghanistan: Rival leaders Ghani and Abdullah in power-sharing deal

 KABUL, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Dr Abdullah Abdullah have signed a power-sharing deal, ending months of political uncertainty. Ghani will stay on as president while both men will choose an equal number of ministers. Abdullah will lead peace talks with the Taliban, should they get under…

Covid-19: US Pres Trump calls WHO ‘puppet of China’

WASHINGTON, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump attacked the United Nations health body as a Chinese “puppet” on Monday and confirmed he is considering slashing or canceling US support. “They’re a puppet of China, they’re China-centric to put it nicer,” he said at the White House. Trump said the…

Bomb kills six, wounds four in southwest Pakistan

QUETTA (Pakistan), May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Six paramilitary soldiers were killed and four wounded in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle, officials said early Tuesday. The incident happened in the hilly areas of Bolan district, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of…

Four dead after earthquake in southwest China

BEIJING, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four people were killed and another 23 injured when an earthquake shook southwestern China’s Yunnan province, local authorities said Tuesday. The shallow quake in Qiaojia county struck late Monday evening, the Yunnan government said in a statement on its social media account. The quake hit…

Jacinda Ardern surges in polls on Kiwi virus success

WELLINGTON, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s success containing coronavirus has driven an extraordinary popularity surge that has put the youthful leader on course for a landslide win in September’s national election. Ardern’s Labour Party was up 14 points at 56.5 percent, a Newshub-Reid Research poll…

Covid-19: China vows to make coronavirus vaccine a ‘global public good’ once ready

GENEVA, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China would make any coronavirusvaccine it developed a “global public good” once it was put into use,President Xi Jinping told the ongoing World Health Assembly. China has five potential vaccines in clinical trials as countriesrace to find a way to stop the pathogen that has…

Bangladesh orders preparedness as coastlines embraces for cyclone

DHAKA, May 19 (NNN-BSS) — Bangladesh authorities orderedintensified preparedness as the southern coastlines visibly brace for acyclone called Amphan feared to be a “very severe one” with met officeissuing its high “danger signal number 7” in a scale of 10. Meteorologists said the powerful cyclone in the Bay of Bengal…

Covid-19: 100 countries want a probe into handling of coronavirus

GENEVA, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China has been trying to avoid the fallout from coronavirus. Now 100 countries are pushing for an investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin once called Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, a “lone warrior.” Putin was joking, but that description is starting to look more and more…
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