Russia reported 7,425 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections to 599,705, the third-highest number in the world. Russia’s coronavirus crisis centre said 153 people have died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 8359. A total of 12,013 […]
US President Donald Trump is opposed to the removal of the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside New York City’s Natural History Museum. He said that on Twitter on Monday. The move was announced Sunday in the wake of anti-racism protests in the United States and beyond following the death […]
British companies and institutions that have made a lot of money from the slave trade like the insurance market Lloyd’s of London should do more than apologies, Caribbean countries say. They believe that companies such as Lloyd’s should act in words. Lloyd’s of London apologized on Tuesday for his […]
Oracle has announced its fiscal fourth-quarter 2020 results. Those are less than previously expected, but the corona crisis has a lot to do with that, according to the company. Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2019 was $ 10.4 billion, down 6% year-on-year. This was partly caused by […]
NATO is preparing for a revival of the second wave of corona pandemic. Defence ministers from the 30 member states agree this week on an operational plan to better and faster assist each other and partner countries in a new health crisis. For example, a stock of medical goods […]
An American former Marine has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for espionage in Russia. He himself says that he has been trapped. The United States wants the man to be released immediately due to lack of evidence. 50-year-old Paul Whelan was arrested in a hotel room in […]
Iran says it has asked France for help in the investigation into the accidental downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane on January 8. Iranian researchers want to have the black boxes read in France. The plane with 176 people on board, including 57 Canadians, was shot down with two […]
In the Chinese capital Beijing, a corona infection has been diagnosed for the first time in almost two months. According to Chinese media, this is a 52-year-old man who developed a fever and sought medical attention. It is still unclear how the man contracted the virus. He wouldn’t have […]
The Moroccan government has announced that the tight lockdown in the country will be eased gradually tonight and not everywhere at once. In principle, the state of emergency declared March 20 to stop the spread of the coronavirus will remain in effect for another month, until the evening of […]
North Korea cuts all communications with its neighbour South Korea. The country does so out of dissatisfaction with the propaganda that South Korea spreads in the north via balloons. Meanwhile, the UN warns of rising food shortages and widespread famine in North Korea. For two years now, there has […]
