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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Special Desk The former Malaysian PM Najib Razak was found guilty of all seven charges in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials. Razak had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering, and abuse of power. The case against Najib, in office from …

Special Desk While US remains a hotspot of the world amid the surging COVID-19 cases, the US President Donald Trump has said that his administration will announce good news regarding therapeutics developed for the infection in next two weeks. Trump who has to face elections in November said, “With respect …

Jubilee News Desk  Having reported four COVID-19 cases after a gap of months, Vietnam has ramped up its coronavirus control measures. These are locally transmitted cases that has raised worried for the country. The country has been lauded as a success story of the pandemic having acted early to close …

Special Desk While the US-China stand-off does not seem escalating down in near future here is a major development as a Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China. Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a …

Special Desk In what is being said as a historic act in the US the president Donald trump has signed four executive orders aimed at lowering prescription drug prices. At a White House ceremony, Trump laid out his plan. He had previously proposed them but this is the first time …

Jubilee News Desk COVID-19 pandemic may get worse before things improve finally said US president Donald trump, as he revived his virus briefings. Trump, who a few weeks before had refused to wear mask in public and then made a public appearance with mask, asked Americans to wear face coverings, …