Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a coalition to tackle the coronavirus crisis – EPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his political rival, Benny Gantz, have signed an agreement to form an emergency unity government. The deal will see the pair rotating the leadership of the country, with Mr Netanyahu going first as…
Prime Minister is facing splits in his Cabinet over lifting restrictions. Boris Johnson will take a cautious approach to ease the nationwide lockdown due to fears a second peak of COVID-19 infections could do further damage to the economy. The Prime Minister is battling to contain splits within his Cabinet over how quickly the Government should lift…
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley speak to reporters at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2020. (DoD/Lisa Ferdinando) The Pentagon’s top leaders said Thursday they can see a “light at the end of the tunnel” of the COVID-19 pandemic and stressed that the U.S. military remains a force…
Iran Protests, November 2019-file photo The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Sunday the death toll of the coronavirus has surpassed 32,200. The MEK’s revelation and the regime’s corruption and deadlock in handling the crisis have intensified the regime’s fear of an uprising and the mullahs’ infighting. In this regard, the regime’s First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said: “This country has enemies and dissidents who are spread across the globe, and they have media outlets at…
A total of 5,534 new coronavirus-related deaths were recorded across the world yesterday, the lowest figure for more than a week. Italy, Spain, and France all recorded fewer than 500 deaths. The figures continue a downward trend that suggests central Europe may be past its peak level of deaths – but it’s worth noting that numbers…
Will the COVID-19 pandemic prompt the EU to take the decisive integrative steps that it failed to take in the context of the Eurozone crisis? Or will this be a crisis too far? The COVID-19 pandemic poses an existential threat to the European Union. As its member states take unprecedented steps to deal with an…
FILE PHOTO. © Global Look Press / www.imago-images.de The European Union urgently requires financial injections to stay afloat and survive the coronavirus epidemic currently ravaging the continent, the European commissioner for the economy, Paolo Gentiloni, has warned. A whopping €1.5 trillion ($ 1.63 trillion) could be needed to “deal with this crisis,” Gentiloni told Der Spiegel…
Bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China and Russia remains sound in the long term, despite the pneumonia outbreak temporarily affecting certain industries. A staff member walks past pipelines in a section of the China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline in Heihe, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei) The two-way trade volume between…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that China will be held accountable by the U.S. and the world if it’s revealed the novel coronavirus originated in a Wuhan laboratory rather than a market. The Florida Republican is referring to a theory, one of multiple,…
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