The head of the Palestinian Foreign Minister’s Office, Dr. Ahmed Al-Deek, has called on Palestinians stranded abroad and students wishing to return to Palestine to stay in their host countries and take care of their health until new instructions are issued to them. Dr. Al-Deek said the ministry has opened thousands of communication channels with Palestinian communities around the world as well as students studying abroad, […]
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Wednesday of the collapse of the healthcare system due to the strict 14-year Israeli siege, Al-Mujtama Magazine reported. In an exclusive interview with the magazine, the Spokesman of the Ministry of Health Ashraf Al-Qidra warned that the coastal enclave is on the edge of an eminent disaster due to the lack of necessary equipment and facilities amidst […]
Europe 00:14 GMT 25.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107867/17/1078671765_0:133:3073:1861_1200x675_80_0_0_41a32f8bffe28b5a7d5c317a72f4e049.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003251078699913-fifteenth-russian-aircraft-leaves-for-italy-to-help-fight-coronavirus—defence-ministry/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The fifteenth aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces has taken off from a Moscow region airport, departing for Italy to help combat the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “The fifteenth Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces took […]
An analysis of coronavirus patients’ voices could yield a “vocal fingerprint” to help detect COVID-19 symptoms in others and prioritise testing and treatment, the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. Starting this week, an Israeli startup company working with hospitals and academic institutions will sample voices of confirmed coronavirus patients through a mobile application in a research project led by the ministry. “These voice samples will […]
At least 23 people have died and dozens more are injured following a riot over coronavirus in La Modelo prison in the Colombian capital Bogota, the country’s justice ministry has said. Seven prison guards were injured during the outbreak of violence on Saturday night, which took place as prisoner protests over sanitary conditions erupted into bloodshed. Two of the guards are in a critical condition, Justice […]
HomeWorld News 22 Mar, 2020 16:37 Get short URL At least 23 people have died and dozens more are injured following a riot at a prison in the Colombian capital Bogota, the country’s justice ministry has said. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
Despite that between Tuesday and Wednesday of this week Iran witnessed its biggest ever single-day spike in Covid-19 cases, authorities are still struggling to get everyone to observe quarantine and self-isolation measures, especially after throngs of hardline Shia demonstrators have gathered to protest the closure of two of the country’s holiest shrines in the city of Qom. Toward this end, Iran’s Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur made an […]
Iranian authorities have provided shocking statistics showing the massive scale of the local Covid-19 outbreak. The country remains the worst-affected in the Middle East, with 1,284 coronavirus deaths already. “Based on our information, every 10 minutes one person dies from the coronavirus and some 50 people become infected with the virus every hour in Iran,” Kianush Jahanpur, the health ministry spokesman, wrote on Twitter. The death […]
As the novel coronavirus spread from China to the rest of the world, dealing body blows to countries in Europe and roiling the U.S. economy, a state-owned Russian news site floated some theories on the virus’ origin: It may be the creation of the U.S. military, the site speculated; or perhaps George Soros, Bill Gates, or American pharmaceutical companies. The article this month on the website […]
A truly bombshell and unprecedented accusation, underscoring that if Sino-US relations amid the broader crisis weren’t already bad enough, they’re about to crash much, much lower: China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman tweets “it might be the US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan” — the widely acknowledged epicenter and origin point of the Covid-19 pandemic. Such shock allegations have recently been swirling in foreign media, especially in Chinese, […]
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned Greek Ambassador to Ankara Michael-Christos Diamessis over his country’s violations of Turkish territorial waters and detention of journalists, Anadolu reports. The Foreign Ministry called on Greece to end violations of the Turkish waters. The ministry also urged the Greek side to release the detained journalists, who had reported about the humanitarian situation of asylum seekers in Lesbos and Rhodes islands. […]
As government emergency response plans around the globe become more militarized in efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19, with China and Iran previously being the first to call up military units to both assist in testing and quarantining suspected cases, Israel has now announced stepped-up drastic action. Bloomberg reports Sunday that “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to deploy the military and an army of teenagers to […]
A number of attendees at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference may have come in contact with the lethal coronavirus, but none have yet tested positive, according to event organizers. A group of people who traveled to the event from New York “potentially” interacted with an individual carrying the illness prior to the conference, AIPAC President Betsy Berns Korn and Chairman Dr. Mort Fridman […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Britain rose to 85 on Wednesday in the biggest daily jump since it was first detected in the country, Health Ministry figures showed on Wednesday. The number of confirmed cases was 51 on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he would cut the number of days workers must wait before they qualify for the state minimum […]
4 Mar, 2020 04:39 Terrorist bases in the Idlib province have merged with Turkish observation posts established under a 2018 deal with Moscow, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, amid a Turkish assault on the area to halt a Syrian offensive. “The fortified areas of the terrorists have merged with the Turkish observation posts deployed under the 2018 Sochi agreement,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkoм […]
Russian military police have been deployed to Saraqeb in Syria’s Idlib province, the Defense Ministry has confirmed. Until recently, the strategic town has seen heavy fighting between Syrian forces and Turkish-backed militants. The police presence is especially important because of the key role that Saraqeb plays in assuring the safety of vehicles and the civilian population travelling along the M4 and M5 highways. The M4 connects […]
Tehran reacted on Friday to the escalation of conflict in northwestern Syria, saying it is ready to take every measure to help reduce tensions. “We are carefully monitoring the field developments and regional outcomes of the developments in Idlib, and we will continue our efforts to end the current tensions,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The statement stressed the need for the sides to […]
Some 34 people have died so far in Iran due to coronavirus infections, a Health Ministry spokesman said on Friday. The total number of people diagnosed with the disease is 388, he said in an announcement broadcast by state TV. The death toll in Iran is by far the highest number outside China. The total number of infected people on Thursday stood at 245, including several […]
Lebanon confirmed the country’s third case of coronavirus on Thursday, after a man arriving from Iran on Feb. 24 tested positive, the health ministry said, according to news agency NNA, Reuters reports. The patient was taken from his home by the Lebanese Red Cross and into quarantine at a Beirut hospital after early symptoms appeared, the ministry statement said. His condition appeared to be stable, it said. The […]
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called for a meeting with a US embassy official after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened to expel Chinese reporters working in the US, as the two sides become embroiled in a “press war.” “In recent years, the US government has adopted various restrictions on Chinese news organizations in the United States,” said Hua Chunying, head of the foreign ministry’s news […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates demanded that international sanctions be imposed on Israel to force it to comply with international will and immediately end its occupation and settlement on State of Palestine territories. In a statement on Tuesday 25 February 2019, on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the massacre of the Ibrahimi Mosque, the ministry referred to terrorist and armed organisations […]
In retaliation for Washington’s travel ban targeting Chinese citizens and recent visitors, not to mention the CDC and State Department travel advisories, Beijing is finally putting its foot down: China’s Ministry of Culture & Tourism warned on Monday that Chinese citizens shouldn’t travel to the US because of “excessive outbreak prevention measures.” Yes, you read that right: China isn’t contesting that the US has the outbreak […]
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns, Don’t Be Fooled by the Deplatforming of Facebook The push for speech control escalates. There is now a concentration of stories concerning social media companies and their role in shaping political thought. We are nine months from a pivotal presidential election in the U.S. and the push is on to ensure that the outcome goes the way […]