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 […]
Month: October 2020
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 […]
BEIJING: Mainland China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, the same as a day earlier, the health authority said today. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all the new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas. It said there are currently 189 active cases of the […]
FILE PHOTO: A man runs along a waterway after lockdown restrictions were implemented in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 2020. MELBOURNE: Police in Australia’s coronavirus hotspot state of Victoria stepped up patrolling today as hundreds of people in the city […]
WELLINGTON: Early voting began in New Zealand yesterday with Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern seen securing a second term in office on the back of her success in handling the coronavirus pandemic and other crises. Voters can head to the polls with about 450 advance polling stations […]
NICE: Fierce winds drove heavy rain across large swathes of France yesterday, knocking out electricity for tens of thousands of homes along the western Atlantic coast and causing destructive flooding in the southeast, officials said. An autumn storm baptised Alex buffeted Brittany overnight, with wind gusts reaching 186 km/h at […]
MADRID: With coronavirus infections soaring, the city of Madrid was yesterday bracing for a partial lockdown that will cut it off from the rest of the country. The new restrictions, which will also apply to nine other nearby towns where infection rates are high, will come into force at 10.00pm […]
BEIRUT: Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded accusations of using foreign fighters, mostly from Syria, in the battle for Nagorno-Karabakh. Here is an overview: Syrians in Azeri ranks? From the onset of the clashes last Sunday, Armenia has accused Turkey of sending mercenaries from northern Syria to fight alongside the Azeris. […]
BEIJING: Xi Jinping’s vow to snuff out emissions by 2060 completes a diplomatic pirouette that moves China to the heart of the global green agenda, wrong-foots the US and cuddles up to Europe’s climate advocates in one nimble step. The Chinese leader last month chose the UN as the stage […]
CALISTOGA: California fire crews deploying water-dropping helicopters made a defensive stand on Friday against flames raging in the foothills of the Napa Valley wine region as forecasts called for a return of dangerous high winds and hot weather this weekend. More than 2,500 firefighters were battling the Glass Fire, which […]