WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed would become free for all Americans, in his first video message since leaving hospital. Trump, eager to revitalise his ailing re-election campaign, repeatedly stressed how well […]
Day: October 7, 2020
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was not in the Oval Office yesterday, the day after he was discharged from hospital, a White House spokesman said — contradicting a top aide to the president. The behaviour of the president — who was hospitalised on Friday with Covid-19 — is under intense […]
JAKARTA: Indonesian police detained nearly 400 protesters today, some armed with molotov cocktails and sharp weapons, on a second day of heated demonstrations over a controversial new jobs law in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Demonstrations took place in at least 12 places today, with police detaining 183 people outside parliament […]
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris will square off today in their only debate, as President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and the ongoing pandemic continue to roil the US presidential contest. The televised clash comes at a precarious moment for the Trump-Pence re-election campaign, less than a […]
Emergencies personnel work in a damaged area of the city of Ganja following a reportedly Armenian rocket strike on October 4, 2020, during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. STEPANAKERT: Half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have been displaced in […]