America
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Trump crippling the international effort to defeat Coronavirus: House Speaker
Jul 08, 2020 12:39US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Trump’s official withdrawal from WHO as “an act of true senselessness" and accused US President of crippling the international effort to defeat the virus.
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Fauci warns against Trump false narrative regarding coronavirus
Jul 08, 2020 05:16Anthony Fauci warned Tuesday that Americans shouldn't take comfort in the dropping death rate among coronavirus patients in the US even as Donald Trump touts the trend as evidence of a successful response
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19
Jul 08, 2020 02:23The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus. According to Reuters, he is just the second major world leader, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to confirm he contracted the virus. With more than 1.6 million confirmed cases as of Tuesday, Brazil is in the throes of the world's second-lar
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Trump withdraws US from WHO
Jul 08, 2020 00:36Donald Trump has announced the severance of all US ties with the World Health Organization, three weeks ahead of a deadline he laid down earlier this month.
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Takht-Ravanchi asks Guterres to shed light of case of 4 Iranian diplomats
Jul 07, 2020 07:12Iranian Permanent envoy to the UN in a letter to the UN Secretary-General asked him to pursue the fate of four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon about 40 years ago.
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UN Special Rapporteur: Assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, unlawful
Jul 07, 2020 05:47UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions Agnès Callamard said that the United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence to substantiate its claims that the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was an imminent threat.
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Trump once again calls COVID-19, Chinese virus
Jul 06, 2020 23:51US President Donald Trump has once again blamed China for the global spread of the deadly coronavirus, claiming that Coronavirus started in China.
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US FDA opposes Trump remarks over coronavirus
Jul 06, 2020 08:23The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has once again denied Donald Trump's claim that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are harmless.
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Trump to hold next campaign rally in New Hampshire
Jul 06, 2020 05:54US President Donald Trump is set to hold an outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire on July 11, his campaign announced amid a continuing spread of the COVID-19 in the US.
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Bolivia's health minister tests positive for coronavirus
Jul 06, 2020 01:19Bolivia’s Health Minister María Eidy Roca has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, the ministry said on Sunday.
