(MENAFN - Dubai PR Network) 7 May 2020 - Bentley Institute, a leading organization advancing infrastructure professions by empowering practitioners, s... ......

(MENAFN - Jordan News Agency) Amman, May 9 (Petra) - The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohammed Ississ, said the only way out to address the consequences o... ......

(MENAFN - ACCESSWIRE ) LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSSWIRE / May 9, 2020 / The COVID-19 public health crisis is having far-reaching impacts on the US econ... ......

(MENAFN - Trend News Agency) Baku, Azerbaijan, May 9 Trend: The Azerbaijani Embassy in France will organize a virtual concert dedicated to the 97th bi... ......

(MENAFN) The overall tally of patients who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Brunei has remained unaffected at 141, as zero more cases... ......

(MENAFN)The health ministry of Kenya said on Friday that 14 more coronavirus cases were reported in the country, which has increased the total number ... ......

(MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Indian industry has come forward to support the government in expanding the network of isolation facilities i... ......

PARIS (AP) " French Resistance member Cecile Rol-Tanguy, who risked her...

The Seattle City Council will...

The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said his agency's guidance for reopening the country was in "draft form" and not ready to be released in the midst of reports that top administration officials decided to shelve the CDC’s recommendations. “The re-opening guidance shared prematurely was in draft form and had not been vetted through the interagency review process," CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a statement circulated by the...

The Republican National Committee...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday...

The 2020 DNC in Milwaukee is scheduled for the week of August 17 as planning continues to stage event in the middle of a pandemic. ......

Boris Johnson will seek to persuade Britain's top bosses on Sunday that his strategy for easing the coronavirus lockdown will pave the way for a swift economic fightback. ......

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the Justice Department was planning to drop its case against his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. But it didn't really matter. The extraordinary action underscored the extent to which Trump and Attorney General William Barr have been in sync in their views on the federal Trump-Russia investigation — with or without communicating about it. Barr himself has openly challenged the decisions of predecessors and his own prosecutors. He's launched internal probes to investigate the investigators. Trump is emphatically welcoming the Flynn action. He has relentlessly railed against the special counsel's...

Google's Pixel Buds are playing a very different game to the competition. ......

Diminishing returns mean that Xbox Series X and PS5 just won't be able to wow us with visuals the way previous generations had. ......

Theragun announces its rebrand under Therabody to holistically hub their suite of wellness solutions: a new generation of percussive therapy guns and line of CBD treatments. ......

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just gave her very first commencement address...inside the Nintendo Switch game, Animal Crossing. ......

The PLO Executive Committee pledged on Thursday to immediately cancel all agreements with Israel should the latter proceed with implementing the annexation plan, Wafa...

KABUL (Sputnik) - The Afghan government...

BEIJING - Entrusted by President Xi Jinping, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on May 8 visited King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, who came to Beijing for a physical examination. Wang conveyed the cordial greetings from President Xi...

Photo by DIRK WAEM/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images Dockworkers in Belgium are wearing bracelets to enforce social distancing. The bracelets were already used to detect if someone fell into the water, but now they will sound an alarm if workers get to close to each other. Manufacturers say there is no privacy issue and the bracelets don't track...

We have begun an independent investigationinto the contact the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) had with a man before he suffered a life-changing injury in Haringey, north London on Monday 4 May 2020. The MPS made a mandatory referralto us following the incident when police on patrol approached a man, in his 20s, on Burgoyne Road, N4. Such a referralis usual practice when a person is seriously injured following direct or indirect police contact. We understand that the man ran off and police officers chased and then Tasered him as he jumped over a wall. The man fell and suffered serious injuries. He was arrested for drug related offences and was taken to hospital where he was assessed as...

Country’s leader, Alexander Lukashenko, boasts of holding only parade in former Soviet Union Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Thousands of people, including elderly veterans of the second world war, have turned out for Belarus’ Victory Day military parade despite the...

On Thursday, 7 May, the IOPC launched an independent investigation into the full circumstances of an incident in Haringey on 4 May in which a man sustained serious injuries. We fully support this investigation and continue to co-operate with the IOPC's...

A Chechen migrant was arrested in the commune of Montereau-Fault-Yonne after dragging a police officer 60 feet with his vehicle while trying to escape a Wuhan coronavirus lockdown checkpoint. ......

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned that the risk of a hard Brexit is increasingly likely for the United Kingdom as London has so far made almost no progress in talks with the European Union (EU) on the future trade relationship, criticizing Britain for disregarding the agreed political agreement. In an interview with Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper on Saturday, the German top diplomat expressed his concern amid floundering trade talks between London...

PARIS — French Resistance member Cecile Rol-Tanguy, who risked her life during World War II by working to liberate Paris from Nazi occupation, has died. She was 101. Rol-Tanguy died on Friday at her home in Monteaux, in central France, as Europe commemorated the 75th anniversary of the...

It was widely observed, following a certain event in a Connecticut elementary school on Dec. 14, 2012, that if America would tolerate the slaughter by gunfire of 20 children aged 6 and 7, it would tolerate anything. Nothing proves the truth of that observation more than our response to the coronavirus pandemic. At this moment of maximum peril, we’re tolerating the turning of workers in meatpacking plants and grocery stores, seniors in nursing homes and heedless churchgoers into sacrificial offerings to the gods of “freedom” and “choice.” Grandparents are being counseled to give up their lives “in exchange for keeping the America that all Americans love for your children and grandchildren.”...

Mike Pence's press secretary, the wife of one of President Donald Trump's senior advisers, has tested positive for the coronavirus, raising alarm about the virus' potential spread within the White House's inner most circle. ......

On Sunday, the Venezuelan army frustrated an...

Washington: The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well as student visas and work authorisation that accompanies them, amidst the high level of unemployment due to the coronavirus, according to a media report on Friday. The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers from countries like India and China in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical...

Gainesville: The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails obtained by The Associated Press. The files also show that after the AP reported Thursday that the guidance document had been buried, the Trump administration ordered key parts of it to be fast-tracked for approval. The trove of emails shows the nation’s top public health experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spending weeks working on guidance to help the country deal with a public health emergency, only to see their...

Washington: Vice president Mike Pence’s press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week. President Donald Trump, who publicly identified the affected Pence aide, said he was “not worried” about the virus spreading in the White House. Nonetheless, officials said they were stepping up safety protocols for the complex. Pence spokeswoman Katie Miller, who tested positive Friday, had been in recent contact with Pence but not with the president. She is...

They have left behind royal life as they knew it, swapping Britain for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles. But former Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not quite slumming it, as they join the Hollywood elite in a reported $18m (€16.4m) Beverly Hills mansion owned by a...

1. US to temporarily ban work-based visas including H-1B  Deccan Chronicle
2. US lawmakers want H-1B visas and foreign students internship suspended to protect American jobs  Times of India
3. US Mulls Temporary Ban on Work Visas Amid Unemployment: Reports  The Quint
4. US likely to temporarily ban work-based visas like H-1B due to rise in unemployment  Zee News
5. 5 US lawmakers ask Trump to suspend new H-1B visas  The Tribune India
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Nearly 400 Rohingya refugees have been rescued in Bangladesh after being at sea for two months.  Bangladesh coast guards reported rescuing 382 Rohingyas, including many women and children, who were starving and stuck on a boat as they were trying to reach Malaysia, the BBC reported on Thursday.  Coast guard spokesman Lt Shah Zia Rahman […]

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Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is a former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN (2002-2007), Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to UN (1996-2001) and Chairman of the UN General Assembly’s Administrative and Budgetary Committee (1997-1998)

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With much of the global economy stalled amid an unprecedented lockdown of nations grappling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the author of a new United Nations report on the disease’s impact on poverty told IPS that hundreds of millions more could be pushed into poverty and we can expect to see social unrest. “A lockdown […]

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“I come from Baglung District, a part of Dhawalagiri Zone in Nepal. My house overlooks the river. Do you know, our district is known for the suspension bridges?”, her eyes glimmer for a fraction of a second and then she breathes a heavy sigh! Her right hand is still wrapped in a scarf, while with […]

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The Covid-19 pandemic has opened our eyes to many vulnerabilities. With home quarantine proving to be a successful strategy, we are finally catching up and practicing it. Bangladeshi narratives about home quarantine now discuss how home is the safest place to ensure sanitisation, hygiene and disinfection. But what if home is where you are most […]

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While one-fourth of the world’s population is under home-quarantine to contain the spread of the novel Covid-19 pandemic, another crisis is brewing behind closed doors—domestic violence. Research shows that in emergencies be it conflicts, economic crisis or during disease outbreaks, there has been a repeat pattern of increase in domestic abuse, therefore abusers and their […]

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Denmark is Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) third largest donor, with US$79.1 million in contributions to date. In this insightful interview with Denmark’s Minister for Development Cooperation, Rasmus Prehn, we explore the importance of girls’ education and gender equality, the humanitarian-development nexus, expanded engagement with the private sector, education in emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic […]

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A recent trend on social media in Turkey is the increasing influence of a group of good-looking Turkish doctors. Click through for the photo story by Hürriyet reporter Kübra Genç...

If you come to Turkey, you should not leave without experiencing at least some of its uniqueness. See, hear, feel, eat, travel, have fun and love in Turkish style. Click through our list of unique experiences that you can only have in Turkey...

Music and dance lovers can find something interesting for themselves this year, whether they like jazz or rock, latin or folk and whether they go to western or eastern Turkey... Click through for the 2018-2019 calendar for music and dance festivals in Turkey...