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October 23, 2020
Trump, Biden row over COVID-19, climate change, racism in last presidential debate
WASHINGTON — US President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden delivered starkly divergent closing arguments to the country in the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday, offering opposite prognoses for the coronavirus pandemic and airing irreconcilable differences on the economy, health care, climate change and immigration policy.Of all the disagreements between the two candidates, none blazed more brightly than their assessments of the American experience battling the ...
October 23, 2020
UAE administers over 28mn polio vaccine doses in Pakistan amid COVID-19 outbreak
ABU DHABI — To mark World Polio Day, the Emirates Polio Campaign (EPC) on Friday announced that it administered over 28 million vaccine doses in Pakistan between July and September 2020, reaching over 16 million children. The announcement comes on the heels of the EPC’s recent announcement that it had completed the world’s first polio vaccination campaign since the outbreak of COVID-19 this spring. Launched in 2014, the EPC is part of ...
October 23, 2020
UAE records second-highest number of coronavirus cases
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates on Friday reported 1,563 new coronavirus cases, marking the second-highest single-day infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country.The UAE on Thursday recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases with 1,578 infections. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 122,273, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health carried by WAM.The new patients, all of whom ...
October 23, 2020
Independent UN rights experts urge Thai government to allow peaceful protests
NEW YORK — Calling the latest imposition of a state of emergency in Thailand, a “draconian measure”, UN-appointed human rights experts on Thursday urged the Government there to guarantee the fundamental rights of peaceful assembly and free speech.In a statement, the independent rights experts called for an end to a crackdown on peaceful protests. “The imposition of a state of emergency is the latest in a series of draconian measures aimed at ...
October 22, 2020
Oman to open schools on Nov. 1
MUSCAT — Oman has announced the start of the academic year for all schools in the Sultanate on Nov. 1 and the end of a partial curfew at 5 am on Oct. 24 (Saturday), Bahrain News Agency reported on Wednesday.The decisions were taken during a meeting of the country’s supreme committee tasked with tackling developments resulting from the coronavirus pandemic headed by Interior Minister Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal Al-Busaidi.Oman is ...
October 22, 2020
Classroom crisis: Avert a ‘generational catastrophe’, urges UN chief
NEW YORK — The world is at risk of suffering “a generational catastrophe” as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on the education of students globally, the UN chief said on Thursday. In a video message to the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Global Education Meeting (GEM), Secretary-General António Guterres reminded delegates that the pandemic had had a “disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable and marginalized children and youth”. “The progress we have ...
October 22, 2020
Rohingya conference pledges to ‘remain steadfast’ in finding solutions to crisis
NEW YORK — A joint UN-hosted donor conference to rally international support behind Myanmar’s displaced Rohingya minority, ended on Thursday with a promise to continue engaging with concerned countries towards finding a long-term solution to their plight.“We will continue to work together to maintain international attention on the Rohingya crisis and to shift from short-term critical interventions to a more sustained and stable support”, said the closing statement from co-hosts ...
October 22, 2020
Saad Hariri returns as Lebanon PM a year after resigning
BEIRUT — A year after resigning in the wake of massive nationwide protests, Saad Hariri has returned as the country’s next prime minister on Thursday.Hariri is now tasked with forming a government that is expected to pull Lebanon out of its deepest crisis since the 1975-1990 Civil War.In a speech on Thursday after his appointment as prime minister-designate, Hariri said he would move quickly to form a new government "because ...
October 22, 2020
UAE's citizens allowed to stay in Israel up to 90 days without visa
ABU DHABI — Citizens of the United Arab Emirates will be able to stay in Israel for up to 90 days on a single visit under a visa exemption agreement that the two countries reached this week, the UAE state news agency WAM reported on Thursday citing a statement from the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The exemption comes in line with the mutual visa waiver memorandum of ...
October 22, 2020
UAE hits new daily COVID-19 record with 1,578 new cases
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates recorded its highest daily total of coronavirus infections on Thursday since the start of the outbreak, with 1,578 new cases surpassing Wednesday's record of 1,538. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 120,710, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health carried by WAM.The new patients, all of whom are in a stable condition, and are receiving the ...
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