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by Issam AHMED Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The top US health body has issued new guidelines on the reopening of schools, clearly weighting its recommendations in favor of having students return to their classrooms in fall. The updated advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was posted Thursday night, and came a few weeks after President Donald Trump asked the agency to change course. “We owe it […]
ROISSY-CHARLES DE GAUILLE AIRPORT, France (AFP) — France will require on-the-spot COVID-19 tests for people arriving from 16 countries where the pandemic is circulating widely, Prime Minister Jean Castex said Friday. France does not allow general travel to and from these countries — including the United States and Brazil — so the tests will be for “French citizens who live in these countries or citizens of these countries with an established residence in France” who […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said Friday it had revoked the license for the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, in retaliation for the closure of China’s Houston consulate earlier this week. The move is a “legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable measures by the United States”, the foreign ministry said in a statement. “The current situation in China-US relations is not what China desires to see, and the US is responsible […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus overtook France’s on Friday with 30,601 fatalities and nearly 50,000 new cases overnight, official data showed. The death toll is the sixth-biggest behind the US, Brazil, Britain, Mexico and Italy, according to an AFP tally. It has the third-highest caseload with almost 1.3 million infections. In the past 24 hours the country recorded 740 new deaths from the virus and 49,310 fresh […]
by Dmitry ZAKS and Phil HAZLEWOOD Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain and the European Union on Thursday broke up their latest round of post-Brexit talks by ruling out a quick deal but voicing hope for agreement in the coming months. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had promised to add “a bit of oomph” to the stalled negotiations when he personally joined them last month. His main goal then was to get a framework […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Claims for government benefits by newly unemployed American workers rose to 1.42 million last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, reversing weeks of declines as coronavirus cases skyrocket nationwide. The increase defied analysts’ expectations of another weekly decrease in new claims, which spiked in March as US businesses shut down to stop the spread of coronavirus put have been dropping since. Adding to the toll were the 974,999 people in […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Nearly three billion of the world’s poorest people should receive a temporary basic income to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, a United Nations body says. As infection numbers spike in developing countries, measures to protect vulnerable populations are “urgently needed”, according to a report released Wednesday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). Funding of $199 billion per month would provide 2.7 billion people with a temporary basic […]
by Joshua Howat Berger, with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The number of novel coronavirus infections around the world passed 15 million Wednesday, with Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the hardest-hit regions, notching more than four million cases. In the United States, home to over a quarter of global infections, President Donald Trump warned that the pandemic was likely to get worse before it gets better. […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — A pine forest wildfire fanned by strong winds near the southern Greek city of Corinth forced the evacuation of homes, holiday camps and a center for people with disabilities on Wednesday, the ANA news agency reported. Some 180 firefighters were fighting the blaze by early evening, with the help of six planes and eight helicopters before they halted their efforts for the night. The wildfire “may not have an active front […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s economy recorded its worst performance in more than 20 years in the second quarter, the central bank said Thursday, as the coronavirus pandemic hammered its exports. Asia’s fourth-largest economy contracted 2.9 percent year-on-year in the April-June period, the Bank of Korea said. It was the fastest decline since a 3.8 percent drop in the fourth quarter of 1998, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis. Quarter-on-quarter, it […]
by Tania Lee Agence France Presse MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Anyone venturing out in Australia’s second-biggest city was ordered Thursday to wear a mask as authorities struggle to contain multiple coronavirus clusters in the country’s southeast. Most people seen by AFP on the quiet streets of Melbourne’s city centre wore masks in the second week of a six-week local lockdown. Victoria state, of which Melbourne is the capital, recorded 422 coronavirus cases on Thursday […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil recorded a new daily record of coronavirus cases Wednesday with nearly 68,000 infections, a sign COVID-19 is still far from being brought under control in the hard-hit country. The health ministry said 67,860 new infections and 1,284 deaths had been reported in the past 24 hours in Brazil, which has the second-biggest outbreak in the world after the United States. The South American country of 212 million people has recorded […]
