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  • Despite claims of shortages, US President Donald Trump maintains that the country has "massive amounts of munitions" and expects the Iran war will wrap up "pretty soon."
  • After both sides agreed on the coordinates of routes through the vital waterway, Iran claims that a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is "on the verge of being finalized" with Oman.
  • At least 11 civilians were injured in what it described as a Houthi strike on the southern Saudi border region of Najran, according to the Saudi-led military coalition that supports Yemen's internationally recognized government.
  • After the Supreme Court's decision to strike down his last executive order that sought to abolish birthright citizenship, President Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday in an attempt to deny citizenship to some American-born children.
  • Farhad N. was given a life sentence by a German court for murder and attempted murder in connection with the deadly car attack on a Verdi trade union demonstration in Munich in February 2025.
  • In a Syrian town with Druze and Christian communities near the capital Damascus, a bomb planted on a minibus exploded on Thursday, leaving at least two dead and thirteen injured.

Tag: Coronavirus Prevention

April 19, 2020

Living In A Hollywood Disaster Movie...

From alien invasions and climate catastrophes to pandemics, Hollywood has made countless disaster movies over the years. During this real life pandemic, VOA Los Angeles correspondent Elizabeth Lee talks about how fictional Hollywood films and reality these days are starting to blur

April 18, 2020

The Internet: A Window into Sanity...

For people around the world who are living under a stay-at-home mandate during the pandemic, the internet has created a sense of normalcy during extraordinary times

WHO Reports Surge in Coronavirus Cases,...

Compared with other regions in the world, the numbers of cases and deaths in Africa are still very low. But WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there were worrying signs that this was changing and that COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, was taking root

COVID-19: Video Reports

People gathered for Friday prayers at mosques in Pakistan’s capital, defying an official ban on gatherings to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Several mosques across Islamabad were open on April 17 and clerics delivered sermons after religious leaders and authorities failed to reach a consensus on exemptions for the government’s COVID-19 measures..Kazakhstan is urgently building three hospitals as part of measures connected to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Central Asian nation. The construction company said the first two would be ready next week

April 17, 2020

Southern Africa: Government Intervention is Required...

The organization is calling on governments to urgently put in place social protection measures to uphold the right to food. The measures to address food insecurity could include food subsidies for those living in poverty, and directly providing food to those who are unable to provide for themselves

COVID And Pregnant Women

For most Americans, quarantine means staying at home as much as possible and waiting, but pregnant women have bigger problems – can the virus be transmitted from mother to a new baby? Can infected mothers breastfeed? How to keep the new baby safe?

East African Flower Industry Wilts as...

Flower exports add about $1 billion annually to the Kenyan economy. But with demand falling sharply, Kenyan exports have dropped by about two-thirds in recent weeks, costing the industry and the country millions in revenue

Venezuela’s Main Public Hospital is in...

countries around the world cope with the coronavirus outbreak, Venezuela is among some of the nations that is especially unprepared to deal with the potentially devasting impact of the pandemic. Medical staff say their hospital isn’t prepared, while the mother of a sick toddler is scared for her baby

Peshawar Residents Trust Age-Old Herbal Treatments...

An outbreak of dengue fever last year in 1Pakistan, in which 75 people died and tens of thousands of others were infected, prompted an age-old debate in the country over whether herbal treatments are more effective than modern medicine. With the coronavirus now spreading in Pakistan, VOA’s Nazar ul Islam spoke to residents and doctors in Peshawar

Behind the Scene in UNTV Studio

UNTV Studio Technician checks the microphone before Secretary-General António Guterres comes to record a video message on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on children on 16 April,2020 at United Nations, New York

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