Restarting The Premier League Will Boost Morale – UK Minister
Restarting the Premier League would be a boost to Britain’s morale amid the coronavirus crisis, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Tuesday. Premier League chiefs have targeted a June return to action as they bid to finish the season over the summer. England’s top-flight has been suspended since March 13 and there are still 92 matches remaining, with the title, relegation...
COVID-19: President Orders Probe As Goat, Sheep, Pawpaw Test Positive In Tanzania
President Magufuli says tests were found to be faulty after goat, sheep and pawpaw samples test positive for COVID-19. ABN TV reports that Tanzania's President John Magufuli has dismissed imported coronavirus testing kits as faulty, saying they returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and pawpaw. Magufuli made the remarks during an event in Chato in northwestern Tanzania on...
More Than Three Million COVID-19 Cases Recorded Worldwide
More Than Three Million COVID-19 Cases Recorded Worldwide More than three million cases of coronavirus have been officially registered across the world, with nearly 80 per cent in Europe and the United States, according to a tally by ABN TV on Monday using official figures. At least 3,003,344 infections have been detected, including 209,388 deaths, mostly in Europe where there...
Nancy Pelosi Endorses Joe Biden For US Presidency
Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Joe Biden for US president in a video statement released Monday, ABN TV Reports “Today I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States because he will be an extraordinary president,” the speaker of the House of Representatives said in the pre-recorded message. Pelosi was the last leading Democrat to endorse formally Biden’s...
Bra-Shaped Face-Masks In Japan Sell Out Minutes After Launch
Fashion lovers are coming up with innovative ways to stay fashionable despite the coronavirus pandemic and one of such ways is through Bra-Shaped face-masks. Recently, bra-cup face mask memes surfaced online and went viral but a Japanese company decided to make them a reality and they sold out almost instantly. Atsumi Fashion, an apparel manufacturer in the city of Himi, Toyama...
COVID-19: Austria To Re-Open Schools In May
Austria said Friday it would start to re-open schools in May as it continues a gradual loosening of coronavirus lockdown measures. Some 100,000 final-year students will go back to school on May 4, Education Minister Heinz Fassmann told a press conference. Schools for six- to 14-year-olds will re-open May 15, while classes for other students aged 15 and over will follow...
Madagascar Launches Africa’s First Cure For COVID-19
Madagascan President, Andry Rajoelina has officially launched a medicine he believes can prevent and cure patients suffering from COVID-19. Developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research and branded COVID Organics, President Rajaolina presented the so-called remedy to the press on Monday. It contains Artemisia, a plant cultivated on the Big Island to fight against malaria. “All trials and tests have been conducted...
COVID-19: South African President Ramaphosa Appoints Okonjo-Iweala As Special Envoy Of African Union
The Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Republic of South Africa His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Mr Tidjane Thiam and Mr Trevor Manuel as Special Envoys of the African Union to mobilise international support for Africa’s efforts to address the economic challenges African countries will face as a result of...
54 Inmates Escape After Mass Jail Break
Iranian security forces are searching for 54 escaped inmates following a prison break over which four guards were arrested, Iran’s state news agency reported on Sunday. “Some prison guards were summoned and four of them were arrested and others released on bail,” Mojtaba Shirouzbozorgi, a judicial official in Kurdistan province, told IRNA. According to the agency, 74 inmates escaped from Saqqez...
Pope Francis Join UN In Appeal For Global Ceasefire
Pope Francis on Sunday joined UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s appeal for an “immediate global ceasefire”, on the fifth anniversary of Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen’s civil war. “I join all those who have accepted this appeal and invite everyone to follow it by ceasing all forms of hostility, promoting the creation of humanitarian aid corridors, being open to diplomacy, and...
