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- World News
US President announces break with WHO, new sanctions against China, and more
China, the World Health Organisation, Twitter, social media generally, new security laws in Hong Kong, bans on some foreign nationals and proposed retaliations against the Chinese. And that was all in just one media conference in the rose garden at the White House by US President Trump. The President, without even mentioning the Covid-19 crisis or the overnight violence in numerous…
- Covid-19 News
President Trump claims China responsible for “mass worldwide killing”
In one of his notorious Twitter posts, US President Donald Trump once again raged against China over the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the globe, blaming Beijing for a “mass worldwide killing.” The early morning tweet yesterday, which referred to an unidentified “wacko in China”, is the latest heated rhetoric from Washington, where Trump is making attacks on Beijing a central narrative…
- Covid-19 News
US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman questions claims that Covid-19 came from Wuhan laboratory
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed yesterday that it remains unknown whether the coronavirus emerged from a wet market in China, a laboratory or some other location. Army General Mark Milley reaffirmed the view of scientists and the world intelligence community “that it was probably not man-made”. “Did it come out of the virology lab in…
- Covid-19 News
Trump claims “evidence” that virus originated in Wuhan lab, WHO wants to join investigation
US President Donald Trump claimed yesterday in a nationally televised address that he “has seen evidence” the the Covid-19 coronavirus originated in a Wuhan epidmiology lab, an assertion roundly disputed by scientists and intelligence agencies, and which threatens to turn into a diplomatic disaster. He declined to share the evidence, claiming he is “not allowed.” The claim was almost immediately contradicted…
- Covid-19 News
US Covid-19 cases pass 1 million as Germany starts wearing masks – VIDEO
Covid-19 cases in the US passed the 1 million mark in the past 24 hours, with US President Donald Trump claiming that the high number are “because of better testing”. The outbreak has left tens of millions unemployed in the US and nearly 60,000 dead, by far the highest number of confirmed fatalities – well over a quarter of the…
- Covid-19 News
Study finds no benefit from hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 treatment
“The experiments and report has limitations, but adds to growing doubt over the efficacy of the drug.” There was plenty of hype, even shared by the US President. But a study published yesterday, the biggest of its kind to date, found no benefit from a malaria drug earlier touted as a potential treatment for Covid-19. It ended up being associated with…
- Việt Nam
Tin Covid-19 Thế giới: Tổng thống Trump cảnh báo Trung Quốc gánh hậu quả vì virus corona
Tổng thống Donald Trump trách Trung Quốc và cảnh báo nước này có thể phải đối mặt hậu quả nặng nề nếu bị phát hiện không làm tròn trách nhiệm ngăn đại dịch Covid-19. Ở buổi họp báo về Covid-19 tại Nhà Trắng hôm 18/4, Tổng thống Donal Trump nói với phóng viên: “Nếu đại dịch bị ngăn chặn ở Trung…
- Việt Nam
Covid-19: Tổng thống Trump đặt nhiều nghi vấn về nguồn gốc virus corona
Cho đến nay, sau gần nửa năm thế giới chìm vào trong khủng hoảng đại dịch toàn cầu, nguồn gốc của virus corona vẫn còn là một dấu chấm hỏi lớn. Phát biểu trong cuộc họp báo tại Nhà Trắng hôm 17/4, Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump nói: “Có rất nhiều điều lạ lùng đang diễn ra và cũng có…
- World News
US President halts funding for WHO – VIDEO
At over 600,000 cases, the US has more Covid-19 infections than any other country. Now, the US President Donald Trump has now announced a cut in US funding for the World Health Organisation, the UN agency tasked with fighting the outbreak worldwide. In a press briefing at the White House Rose Garden yesterday, he said he had instructed his administration to…
- World News
China expels American journalists in tit-for-tat response
The Chinese government is revoking the press credentials of US journalists working for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. It’s the biggest crackdown on American journalists in the past two decades. The move comes as the two superpowers feud over the narrative on the Covid-19 virus and both try to politicise the issue. US…
- Việt Nam
Vợ chồng sao Hollywood Tom Hanks và Rita Wilson nhiễm virus corona
Tài tử Tom Hanks và vợ Rita Wilson có xét nghiệm dương tính với virus corona mới gây dịch COVID-19. Họ là những người nổi tiếng đầu tiên công khai nhiễm dịch bệnh này. Tom Hanks và Rita Wilson, cả hai cùng tuổi 63, tiết lộ thông tin này thông qua một thông báo hôm 11-3 (giờ Mỹ). Tờ Variety…
- Covid-19 News
US announces temporary ban on flights coming from Europe
The US President Donald Trump has announced today a month-long suspension for travellers out of Europe. The only exception if people travelling from the UK to the US. In an official televised address to the US TV audience from the White House, President Trump noted he was overseeing “the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in…
- Việt Nam
Tổng thống Mỹ đáp trả tuyên bố báo thù của Iran
Sau tuyên bố của Iran rằng sẽ báo thù cho tướng Soleimani và mang tới sự báo thù nặng nề cho nước Mỹ. Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump đã có những tuyên bố rất nhanh và dứt khoát nhằm vào các mục tiêu quan trọng của Iran. Tổng thống Trump chia sẻ trên Twitter ngày 5/1: “Hãy xem đây là…
- Việt Nam
Washington phủ nhận bỏ rơi đồng minh, lính Mỹ xấu hổ vì sự phản bội
PHOTO: Aref Tammawi/AFP Nhiều binh sĩ Mỹ giấu tên cho biết họ cảm thấy xấu hổ khi Mỹ bỏ rơi đồng minh Kurd – những người mà họ đã cùng sát cánh chiến đấu nhiều năm qua. Tờ New York Times dẫn lời các binh sĩ Mỹ: “Họ tin tưởng chúng ta, nhưng chúng ta đã phá vỡ lòng tin…
- World News
US trying to make ‘meaningful progress’ in US-China trade negotiations
PHOTO: CNBC by Heather Scott US trade negotiators want to make “meaningful progress” in upcoming talks with China, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, one day after conciliatory gestures by both sides boosted hopes of an eventual resolution. The slugfest between the world’s two largest economies has cast a shadow over global economic growth with both Chinese and US economies…
- Business News
US-China tit-for-tat rattles Asian markets after Trump’s ‘tariff tantrum’
US President Trump has caused widespread panic in Asian financial markets today after Fridays “tariff tantrum” where he used Twitter to announce new levels of tariffs on Chinese imports after China announced their response to his previous ramping up of the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing. Asian shares have headed southward today after the President escalated tariffs in…
- World News
Kim-Trump summit ‘fail’ over North Korea’s demands to lift sanctions
by Choi He-suk, Korea Herald – Asia News Network US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un’s summit ended abruptly with both sides failing to reach an agreement. The second day of talks kicked off at 9 am yesterday at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi but the event was cut short when Kim and Trump departed at 1:25 pm.…
- Pattaya News
Dirt-dishing Belarusian model pleads not guilty in Pattaya court hearing
Anastasia Vashukevich, aka Nastya Rybka, is back in the news after appearing in court today and entering a not guilty plea. She was pleading in relation to the illegal ‘sex training’ classes she and others ran in Pattaya, the world class family resort town. The Belarusian model sparked global intrigue after claiming she had dirt on several Russian politicians who…
