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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (May 13) deepened his rift with top medical advisor Anthony Fauci over loosening COVID-19 restrictions, saying they “totally” disagree on whether to keep schools closed. The issue of whether students should return to schools and universities in September is emerging as a …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The spread of the coronavirus has had a tremendous impact on the travel industry. With a vast majority of ground flights to halt the international spread of the virus, major airports such as Singapore and Dubai have seen passenger volumes drop. Ad Ad Airports continue to incur fixed …

[ad_1] KABUL: After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab, 27, gave birth to a baby on Tuesday (May 12) morning in a small hospital in the southwest corner of Kabul. She was glad and named the boy Omid, which means “hope” in Dari. Around 10 a.m. (1.30 pm Singapore …

[ad_1] China first China, as the original epicenter of the virus and the first to close, has increased the staffing of the office for several weeks, with little sign that security precautions will be removed any time soon. The Bank of Communications Co., which employs some 87,000 people, ordered most …

[ad_1] LONDON: A female railway station worker in Britain died of Covid-19 last month after she was spit and coughed up by someone claiming to have the virus, her union said yesterday. The TSSA transport union said Belly Mujinga, 47, contracted the virus with a colleague a few days after …

[ad_1] GENEVA: The new coronavirus may never go away, and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday (May 13). As some countries around the world gradually begin to ease the blocking restrictions imposed in an attempt to stop …

[ad_1] Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) has dropped to its lowest ranking, ranking 63rd on the annual Skytrax World’s Top 100 Airports list. The main gateway to the country fell from 54th place last year. The highest ranking KLIA achieved was in 2001, when it ranked second on the list. …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: More Americans have become critical of President Donald Trump in the past month as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic increases and now follows Democratic challenger Joe Biden by 8 percentage points among registered voters, according to a Reuters / Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday …

[ad_1] MONTREAL: Airlines and airports are recommending a layered approach to temporary security measures as air travel resumes, warning that no measure can mitigate all risks during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an information document seen by Reuters. The plan established by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the …

[ad_1] GENEVA: Anchoring the source of the COVID-19 pandemic should help determine how COVID-19 has “invaded the human species” so quickly, a senior official at the World Health Organization told AFP. The outbreak has sparked a fierce diplomatic dispute between China and the United States, with the WHO at the …