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by Amber WANG Agence France Presse TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — China must find a way to live peacefully alongside a democratic Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said Wednesday, in an inauguration speech that drew condemnation from Beijing. Taiwanese voters handed Tsai a second term with a landslide win in January, a vocal rebuke of China’s ongoing campaign to isolate the island. Tsai, 63, is loathed by Beijing because her party views Taiwan as a de facto […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Monday made the surprise announcement that he is taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that his own government experts say is not suitable for fighting the novel coronavirus. Trump, noting that he has tested negative for the virus and shows no symptoms, said he’d been taking the drug as a preventative measure for about a week and a half. “I take […]
US still the country with the most cases, deaths Screensgrab of Johns Hopkins University virus dashboard on COVID-19 cases worldwide as of 12:32 p.m., May 20, 2020. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins University) (Eagle News) – Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 4.9 million with the United States still the country with the most confirmed cases at more than 1.5 million, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University virus dashboard. The number of COVID-19 related deaths […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that millions of people could be pushed into extreme poverty in Africa due to the coronavirus pandemic and called for “global solidarity” with the continent. “The pandemic threatens African progress. It will aggravate long-standing inequalities and heighten hunger, malnutrition and vulnerability to disease,” Guterres said in a statement accompanying a UN study with recommendations for the African continent. While he congratulated Africa for responding […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students returned to school on Wednesday as educational establishments started reopening after a coronavirus delay of more than two months. Students lined up for temperature checks and were given sanitizers to wash their hands as they entered school premises while teachers greeted them with smiles and occasional elbow bumps. “It’s really exciting to meet my friends and teachers face to face, but we have […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil registered 1,179 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Tuesday, as the pandemic exacted its worst daily toll yet in the hardest-hit Latin American country. The overall death toll in Brazil now stands at 17,971, the ministry said. This was the first time the daily toll exceeded 1,000. New infections in the past 24 hours totaled 17,408, bringing the total to 271,628, the third-highest […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported 26 new confirmed COVID-19 cases involving overseas Filipinos, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,431 as of Tuesday, May 19. Only one new death was recorded, from the Middle East, bringing to 280 the total number of COVID-19 related deaths among overseas Filipinos. Twenty-one new recoveries were also reported from Asia and the Pacific and Middle East regions, with the total now at […]
(Eagle News)–The government has repatriated over 150 Filipinos from Bahrain and Macau amid since Saturday, May 16. Based on data from the Department of Foreign Affairs, of the 157 repatriated, 14 were from Bahrain and 143 from Macau. The DFA said of the 14 Filipinos repatriated from Bahrain, five lost their jobs with the closure of their respective companies due to the global health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The other was a […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A Russian army Mi-8 helicopter crashed outside Moscow during a training flight on Tuesday, killing the crew, the defense ministry said. “As a result of a crash landing the crew of the helicopter died of their wounds,” the defense ministry said. Defense ministry spokespeople, reached by AFP, declined to specify how many crew members had died. But Russian news agencies, citing emergency services, said three people died. The helicopter, which did […]
by Sam Jahan with Sailendra Sil in Kolkata Agence France Presse KHULNA, Bangladesh (AFP) — The Bay of Bengal’s fiercest cyclone this century was bearing down on millions of people in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, with forecasts of a potentially devastating and deadly storm surge. Authorities have scrambled to stage mass evacuations away from the path of Amphan, which is only the second “super cyclone” to form in the northeastern Indian Ocean since […]
by Michel COMTE Agence France Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — In Ottawa’s ByWard Market neighborhood, shopkeepers were busy readying for an influx of shoppers, dusting off wares and adjusting to new rules. “I’m smiling behind the mask,” declares the owner of a clothing store in the popular outdoor market, which was permitted to reopen Tuesday along with many shops across Canada as authorities began easing a two-month lockdown. Ontario — Canada’s most populous province — […]
by Nina LARSON with Michael MATHES in Washington and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — World Health Organization member states agreed Tuesday to launch an investigation into its coronavirus response, after US President Donald Trump threatened to quit the UN agency and branded it a “puppet of China”. Trump has been locked in a bitter spat with Beijing, alleging it covered up the initial COVID-19 outbreak in central China late last year […]
