Italy approves experimental Israeli drug used to treat hospitalized corona patients

The drug, called opaganib, was designed to have anti-cancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. It has undergone testing but has yet to be approved for general use. Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus … Read More

Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia warns it may reach up to 200,000 infections

posted in: Middle East, News

In a rare televised address, the health minister said some people were not taking the danger of infection seriously. The coronavirus could eventually infect between 10,000 and 200,000 people in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s health minister has said, urging the public to … Read More

U.S. appeals court hands win to Trump plan to resume federal executions

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s effort to resume federal executions got a boost on Tuesday from a U.S. appeals court, which tossed a district judge’s injunction that blocked four death penalty sentences from being carried out. The 2-1 ruling by … Read More

Putin’s Oil Price Gambit Has Run Out of Road

BC-Putin’s-Oil-Price-Gambit-Has-Run-Out-of-Road , Clara Ferreira Marques (Bloomberg Opinion) — In the eyes of Moscow hardliners, the shale boom that turned the U.S. into a leading oil exporter has also encouraged Washington’s belligerence. Back in early March, low prices were a welcome … Read More

Border Patrol Ignores Asylum Laws, Sends Migrants Back to Mexico

By Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde – http://www.ngb.army.mil, Public Domain, Link In violation of the international Refugee Convention, which the US signed in 1968, the Border Patrol is now using the COVID-19 crisis as a rationale to turn away migrants without giving … Read More

Japan’s Shinzo Abe declares a state of emergency

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared a state of emergency to fight new coronavirus infections in major population centres and unveiled a stimulus package he described as among the world’s biggest to soften the economic blow. Abe announced the … Read More

Brexit has complicated and isolated Germany’s role in the EU

posted in: Germany, News

There is only one priority for Germany and the UK right now and that is dealing with COVID-19. The available estimates of the costs of shutdown in the form of lost value-added show that the coronavirus epidemic will cause costs … Read More

Up to 10 percent of recovered coronavirus patients test positive again, report says

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here. As many as 10% of recovered coronavirus patients in China tested positive again after being discharged from the hospital, according to a report. Doctors on the … Read More

Crews still hard at work on Trump’s border wall, despite stay-home orders and pandemic

Construction continues on 197 miles of wall the president says will keep out drugs, migrants and disease. ‘We’ve been told to show up every day, nonstop,’ says one worker. A construction worker (left) helps move a section of reinforcing grid … Read More

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