Confidence in Merkel is at all-time high in several countries during her last full year in office

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at a press conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin following a virtual meeting with governors of Germany’s 16 states on Aug. 27, 2020. (Omer Messinger-Pool/Getty Images) As Angela Merkel enters the home stretch of … Read More

Trump Says FDA Pulled ‘Political Hit Job’ With Vaccine Rules

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump accused the Food and Drug Administration of carrying out a “political hit job” against him by releasing new standards that could delay authorization of a coronavirus vaccine until after the November election. “New FDA Rules … Read More

White House: Trump experiencing ‘mild symptoms’ after positive coronavirus test, ‘in good spirits’

Meadows did not elaborate on the types of symptoms the president was experiencing. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Friday that President Trump is experiencing “mild symptoms” of COVID-19 after the president and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the novel coronavirus. … Read More

Boris Johnson adopts cautious approach to second UK coronavirus lockdown

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Leon Neal/Getty Images Pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 10 p.m. and people will be encouraged to work from home under new restrictions announced Tuesday. LONDON — Boris Johnson took a softly-softly … Read More

Coronavirus death toll hits 1M worldwide

The news comes as Europe braces for a ‘second wave’. There have been over 1 million coronavirus-associated deaths worldwide since the illness was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to Johns Hopkins University data. In January, as the virus … Read More

Germany’s debt hits record high due to fiscal splurge in pandemic

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s massive spending to shield Europe’s largest economy from the coronavirus shock has pushed overall debt to its highest level on record, data showed on Tuesday. The overall debt from federal government, regional states, municipalities and social … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 25 September 2020

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Greetings from Tyler, Oh no!  A second wave has hit.  Who saw this coming?  “New York Eyes New Shutdown,” reads the NBC headline.  Of course they do, we were sure they would.  Every time there’s some hint that the pandemic … Read More

The Latest: Venezuela’s Guaidó urges nations to decry Maduro

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UNITED NATIONS — The Latest from the U.N. General Assembly (all times EDT): 8:10 p.m. He didn’t get a spot at the U.N. General Assembly. But U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó still put out his own online message during … Read More

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