Jubilee News Desk With 19 deaths in 24-hours Australia recorded its deadliest day on Monday since the coronavirus pandemic began, amid a second wave of infections in Melbourne. Nineteen deaths were reported in Victoria – of which Melbourne is the capital – on Monday. Victoria has now seen about two-thirds …
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Talks on virus stimulus fail
Special Desk Negotiations at the US Congress on another stimulus package for the coronavirus-ravaged economy have collapsed. Democrats and Republicans remain in stalemate over everything – from unemployment benefits to financial aid for schools to cash injections for states. US unemployment rate stands at 10.2%, above any level during the …
Read More »Sri Lanka election: Rajapaksa brothers win ‘super-majority’
Special Desk They call it ‘super-majority’ as the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared victory in the country’s parliamentary election. Rajapaksa’s brother Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected to be prime minister, having held the role as caretaker since November. The brothers’ party, Sri Lanka People’s Front, has secured a two-thirds “super …
Read More »France records two-month highest number of cases
Jubilee News Desk France has recorded its highest number of daily coronavirus infections in more than two months on Wednesday and data showed 1,695 new cases within 24 hours. With more than 30,000 deaths, France has the third-highest death toll in Europe, behind the UK and Italy. The city of …
Read More »Coronavirus Aid deal aimed by weekend
Special Desk Aiming new coronavirus aid package by the end of the week, the White House officials and top congressional Democrats have planned a meet again. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said after 90 minutes of negotiations that the goal was to finalize the proposal to allow for a vote in …
Read More »THE Questions around “ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION” in Beirut
Abhigyan Shekhar Tuesday evening around 8:30 while the Indian media was busy with the countdown of the bhumipujan of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, a devastating news came from the Lebanese capital of Beirut where 2 explosions shook the entire city and by the midnight killed 70 and left 3000 …
Read More »Russia plans mass vaccination
Special Desk Amid reports of who will win the race for a vaccine for COVID-19, Russian health authorities are preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus in October. Russian media quoted Mikhail Murashko, the health minister saying that doctors and teachers would be the first to receive the …
Read More »First Covid-19 fatalities in Vietnam
Special Desk In what can be said as a jerk to the pride of its zero deaths in Vietnam, the country recorded its first Covid-19 fatalities. The first death was of a man, aged 70 from the central city of Hoi An, state media said. A second death, of a …
Read More »US election 2020: Former president calls for end to voter suppression
Special Desk Amid rising voices for the US elections 2020, former President Barack Obama has criticised what he described as Republican attempts at voter suppression. In a speech at civil rights leader John Lewis’s funeral Obama said people in power were attacking our voting rights with surgical precision and called …
Read More »Trump stands by hydroxychloroquine
Special Desk US President Donald Trump has once again defended the use of hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus, and he contradicting what his own public health officials said about the drug. The US had taken a big consignment of hydroxychloroquine from India a month before. Trump said the malaria medication …
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