Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders told Bill Maher that President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic will cause thousands of American deaths, and predicted Trump will leverage federal aid to benefit his own reelection chances in battleground states. HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher returned Friday night with an episode that was shot in the host’s back yard, but featured a taped remote interview between […]
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Iraq has thousands of confirmed COVID-19 cases, many times more than the 772 it is has publicly reported, according to three doctors closely involved in the testing process, a health ministry official and a senior political official, Reuters reports. The sources all spoke on condition of anonymity. Iraqi authorities have instructed medical staff not to speak to the media. Iraq’s health ministry, the only official outlet […]
Sailors from a coronavirus-infected US aircraft carrier are to occupy hundreds of hotel rooms in Guam as the US Navy expedites blanket testing of the crew. Earlier, the captain of the ship wrote a scolding memo on the evacuation. USS Theodore Roosevelt had to cut short its mission in the South China Sea and dock in Guam last week due to an outbreak of the novel […]
With Ukraine’s borders scheduled to slam shut to cope with Covid-19 contagion, thousands of Ukrainians who had been working in Europe risked infection by crowding at crossings to get back into the country. Endless lines of mostly men, many wearing face masks but some without, waited for hours at border crossings between Ukraine and Poland on Friday, hours before the lockdown was to take effect. RT’s […]
Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of people to quarantine camps as waves of overseas citizens return home to escape a coronavirus pandemic spreading in Europe and the US. Vietnam’s Health Ministry has reported 148 infections, with no deaths. Its proven infection rate is lower than any regional nations except Myanmar and Laos, where testing has been very limited. By Thursday, those quarantined in military-run centers […]
Rome has decided to raise fines for people defying quarantine requirements by up to 15 times in a desperate attempt to curb the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus that has already killed more people in Italy than anywhere else. Any Italian caught leaving their home without a very good reason could face a penalty between €400 and €3,000 ($430 to $3,227) from now on, Prime Minister […]
President Donald Trump claimed there could be mass suicides throughout America if the economy doesn’t go back to normal in the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In his town hall interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, Trump gushed about the strength of the economy prior to the crisis and argued that people will be able to socially distance themselves well enough to slow the spread […]
The Iraqi government announced on Sunday that it has recovered thousands of artefacts that had been smuggled out of the country. A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, said in a statement that the ministry has worked to recover thousands of smuggled artefacts, including the valuable Kudurru which dates back to the time of King Nebuchadnezzar I 3200 BC, explaining that it […]
French law enforcers have slapped fines on tens of thousands of uncooperative citizens, less than a week after the government introduced restrictions on non-essential travel and business in an effort to combat Covid-19. The Ministry of Interior disclosed on Saturday that police across the country had carried out 867,695 inspections to ensure that people using transport or participating in other restricted activities had good reason to […]
CoreWeave, the largest U.S. miner on the Ethereum blockchain, is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a therapy for the coronavirus. These graphics processing units (GPUs) will be pointed toward Stanford University’s Folding@home, a long-standing research effort that unveiled a project on February 27 specifically to boost coronavirus research by way of a unique approach to developing pharmaceutical drugs: […]
The Jordanian Judicial Council decided on Wednesday to release 3,081 people jailed for civil debts, including 37 women, as part of the Hashemite Kingdom’s efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak. The decision was taken during a meeting attended by the council’s President and head of the Court of Cassation, Judge Muhammad Al-Ghazou. The council explained that there are 3,585 prisoners held on civil debts charges and […]
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Israeli security officials said on Tuesday that they expect the operational efficiency of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to decline with thousands of troops quarantined due to the coronavirus crisis, Arab48.com has reported. According to Wallah news website, 4,267 Israeli soldiers are in quarantine by order of the Ministry of Health. Many have tested positive for the virus, Covid-19. Although some officials denied that operational efficiency […]
In many ways the US economy is currently in the eye of the coronavirus storm: cities and states are under quarantine lockdown, the CDC has prohibited any groupings of more than 50 people; stores, clubs, restaurants, bars and hotels are voluntarily shuttering indefinitely as the economy grinds to a halt and yet besides a tapestry of ghost cities across the nation, the immediate impact of the […]
“We believe the available research supports the conclusion that a program of Medicare for All (M4A) could be considerably less expensive than the current system, reducing waste and profiteering inherent in the current system, and could be financed in a way to ensure significant financial savings for the vast majority of American households,” reads the letter, whose signatories include Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, former Labor […]
Chile: Despite Harsh Repression Of Thousands In Dignity Square Protestors Prevail By Carlos Aznárez and Maria Torrellas, Resumen-english.org March 10, 2020 Chile: Despite Harsh Repression Of Thousands In Dignity Square Protestors Prevail2020-03-102020-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/3-9-chile.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Resumen-english.org Neither the carabineros with their usual violent repression, nor Piñera, the dictator-puppet of US policies for the continent, nor even the hegemonic media with their lies or concealment of what is really […]
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 […]
Turkey’s border will remain open for migrants seeking to reach the EU, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says. Thousands of illegal migrants have amassed at the border with Greece, facing off with police and trying to break through. Ankara will not try to stop the refugees flowing to Europe, Erdogan told reporters Friday, as he was flying home from Moscow, where he had agreed a ceasefire document […]
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Thursday afternoon on Fox News Bill Hemmer Reports, stated that sources are telling her the United States will be infected with “hundreds of thousands” of novel coronavirus cases – adding that she was not trying to “panic anybody” with the information. The segment began with host Bill Hemmer asking Bartiromo, “How do we look at this, now?” referring to how the deadly illness will […]
Israel security forces stole thousands of shekels from Palestinians in Al-Zawiya in the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank last night. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, around 50,000 shekels ($14,500) were seized during raids that were carried out overnight in the houses of Palestinian citizens and former prisoners. The Israeli authorities often claim that money has been “confiscated” because the Palestinians “supported acts […]
True to Erdogan’s prior threat that Europe would see 18,000 to as many as 30,000 refugees pour across European Union borders on Saturday after Turkey ‘opened the gates,’ it’s being reported that the number of migrants at Evros — a key land border between Turkey and Greece — has now reached 15,000. Throughout Saturday the area became a war zone as thousands of refugees, urged on by Turkish […]
Security token platform Dusk Network says it will tokenize shares for thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Netherlands and the broader Benelux region. The Amsterdam-based company announced Thursday it has partnered with Firm24, one of the region’s largest shareholder registries, and will use blockchain for an automated infrastructure that could introduce market efficiencies and transform how shares, that are not publicly listed, are […]
After a nearly 17 year absence, US troops have returned Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base. The last time the base, which lies about 60 miles outside of Riyadh, saw an American presence was in 2003, after which the troops moved to Qatar. The American troop surge into the gulf region to curtail Iran continues even as the world is focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which appears to be […]
India rolled out the “MAGA red carpet” as President Trump was greeted by hundreds of thousands during his first ever official visit to the country. “America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people,” President Trump told a crowd that was reported by the NPR and others at over 100,000 people in the newly opened Motera cricket stadium […]
Congratulations, Tesla! You now have the approval of a German court to continue cutting down a massive local forest that has stood in Germany for hundreds of years! Ah, yes, the sweet smell of saving the planet! Tesla has reportedly “overcome a legal roadblock” in the building of its German Gigafactory, as a German court ruled on Thursday that Tesla can “can resume cutting down trees at […]