[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she would not just take President Donald Trump’s word for any possible coronavirus vaccine. In an excerpt from the interview broadcast by CNN on Saturday (Sept. 5), Harris said Trump had a history of suppressing expert opinion on the …
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[ad_1] PARIS (REUTERS) – Facebook has blocked a terminally ill French euthanasia activist from broadcasting his own death live. Alain Cocq, who has suffered from a rare and incurable degenerative disease for 34 years, said he would find another way to spread his death. He has stopped taking food, drink …
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[ad_1] SEOUL / BANGALORE / KUALA LUMPUR / HONG KONG / BEIJING – Once a central part of Itaewon’s thriving nightlife in central Seoul with lines of up to 1.5 hours, the Mexican-Korean restaurant bar Vatos Urban Tacos has been hit over and over by the coronavirus outbreak that has …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: As Ms. Heather Huang approached her due date in early August, she felt desperate because she couldn’t hire a confinement babysitter. The 30-year-old business owner was expecting her firstborn, but the agencies she contacted told her they couldn’t provide one for the dates she requested. Ad Ad “I …
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump insists that any sale of the TikTok video app includes a cut for the federal government, but that lawsuit has puzzled policy experts and lawyers who say such a payment would extend his authority under US law. The tariff has emerged as an unusual sideshow in …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: New COVID-19 clusters were identified in three other dormitories of foreign workers who had previously been eliminated from the disease. The Ministry of Health (MOH) reported on Saturday (September 5) that new groups have emerged at Cochrane Lodge 1 at 51 Admiralty Road West, Mandai Lodge 1 at …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said the United States must consider “very seriously” the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but that his administration has yet to see any evidence. “It’s tragic. It’s terrible, it shouldn’t happen. We don’t have any proof yet, but I’ll take a …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Communications and Information Minister S. Iswaran and Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung discussed with unelected MP Leong Mun Wai in Parliament on Friday (September 4) over the comments in his inaugural address. The Singapore Progress Party (PSP), NCMP, had said Tuesday that it was “deeply disappointed” that …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – An excursion to the other side of the border; leave my bags in a new hotel; a whirlwind of lunches, naps and never feeling hungry because 24 hours is not enough time for all the good food. Before Covid-19 hit, this was my annual Johor Baru getaway. …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The first black woman is in a major party presidential bid, Americans of all races are showing support for the Black Lives Matter movement, and at the same time, white nationalists are increasing recruitment efforts and public activism . That national endorsement of America’s stated goal of equal …
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