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Trump Falsely Denies FDA Warning on Hydroxychloroquine: CNN

US President Donald Trump continued Tuesday to make false and baseless claims about hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he has repeatedly promoted and now says he is himself taking. At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump falsely denied the existence of a Food and Drug Administration warning about the use of ...

May 20, 2020

World

Pelosi Warns ‘Morbidly Obese’ Trump Not to Take Hydroxychloroquine

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has advised “morbidly obese” President Donald Trump, who has a heart condition and takes drugs to reduce high cholesterol, of taking hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for the coronavirus caused disease COVID-19. “I would rather he not be taking something that has ...

May 19, 2020

World

Trump Threatens to Make WHO Freeze Permanent

US President Donald Trump has threatened to pull the US out of the World Health Organization, accusing it of “botching” the global coronavirus response and of being a “puppet of China.” More than 317,000 people have died of COVID-19 out of nearly 4.8 million infections worldwide, and governments are scrambling ...

May 19, 2020

World

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Pompeo: WHO’s Hesitation to Grant Taiwan Observer Status ‘Damages’ Its Credibility

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the World Health Organization is “damaging” its credibility by preventing Taiwan from obtaining observer status. WHO’s member states agreed during the virtual World Health Assembly to postpone the discussion on granting Taiwan observer status in the agency, despite mounting pressure from ...

May 18, 2020

World

US Records 820 New Coronavirus Deaths in 24 Hours: Tracker

The United States on Sunday recorded 820 new coronavirus fatalities in the previous 24 hours, but the country’s total death count neared 90,000, a Johns Hopkins University tracker reported. The latest toll, marked at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Monday), was the lowest since 776 daily deaths were recorded on May ...

May 18, 2020

World

Brazil’s Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 15,000

Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll passed 15,000 on Saturday, official data showed, while its number of infections topped 230,000, making it the country with the fifth-highest number of cases in the world. With 15,633 deaths and 233,142 confirmed cases, Brazil — whose president Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the disease as a ...

May 17, 2020

World

Trump Weighs Restoring Partial US Funding to WHO

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was considering restoring 10 percent of US funding to the World Health Organisation that was frozen in April. “This is just one of numerous concepts being considered under which we would pay 10% of what we have been paying over many years”, he ...

May 16, 2020

World

A Majority of Americans Going to Work Fear Exposing Their Household to the Coronavirus

Even as most Americans spent the past two months hiding indoors, Damion Campbell has been rushing into retail and grocery stores in Columbia, S.C., each day. The 45-year-old owns an information technology company, and his clients rely on him to keep their cash registers operating. Just a few months ago, ...

May 15, 2020

World

Tension Mounts in Global Race for Coronavirus Vaccine

Global tensions simmered over the race for a coronavirus vaccine Thursday, as the United States and China traded jabs, and France slammed pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi for suggesting the US would get any eventual vaccine first. Scientists are working at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused ...

May 15, 2020

World

Trump Threatens to Cut off Relations with China

US President Donald Trump says he is not interested in talking with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in what seems to be a further degeneration of Washington-Beijing ties amid the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast on Thursday, Trump said that he might even ...

May 15, 2020