Month: مئی 2020

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ANOTHER Russian minister diagnosed with Covid-19, after PM ends up in hospital

ANOTHER Russian minister diagnosed with Covid-19, after PM ends up in hospital Russia’s Minister of Construction and Housing, as well as his deputy, have been hospitalized with coronavirus. This comes a day after PM Mikhail Mishustin informed the president he was being admitted to hospital due to Covid-19. The ministry’s press service broke the news on Vladimir Yakushev’s test late on Friday. While he and his deputy, Dmitry Volkov, have been hospitalized, another of Yakushev’s deputies, Nikita Stasishin, has stepped up as acting minister. “I’ll be treated at one of the city’s clinics, in the care of medics. I’ll be keeping in close touch,” the minister said. Yakushev is the second of Russia’s top officials to get the coronavirus. Late on Thursday, Pri...

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‘Tesla stock price is too high’: Elon Musk sends shares into freefall with deluge of tweets

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‘Tesla stock price is too high’: Elon Musk sends shares into freefall with deluge of tweets Elon Musk has stirred up a new Twitter controversy by claiming that the shares of his electric car company were priced “too high.” The remark sent Tesla stock downhill and summoned a horde of angry shareholders into Musk’s feed. The billionaire unleashed a series of perplexing tweets on Friday, vowing to sell “almost all physical possessions” and to “own no house.” He also apparently took yet another jab at the anti-coronavirus measures he’s previously spoken out against, tweeting “Now give people back their FREEDOM,” as well as posting lyrics from The Star Spangled Banner. The strongest reaction, though, was provoked by another of Musk’s posts, in which he sug...

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Ireland extends coronavirus lockdown to May 18 as PM gives first details for easing restrictions

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Ireland extends coronavirus lockdown to May 18 as PM gives first details for easing restrictions The Irish government on Friday announced a further extension to the country’s lockdown measures, with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar saying they would remain in place until May 18; then first steps to ease restrictions will be made. Varadkar said the Irish economy would reopen in five stages, with each successive easing dependent on the level of coronavirus infections being kept under control. The current travel limit for personal exercise will be extended from two to five kilometers from Tuesday, while people aged over 70 – who have been advised since late March by government health officials to ‘cocoon’ at home – may leave their homes for a walk or drive. Businesses forced to close un...

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Bezos ordered to testify in Congress, as Amazon accused of 'possibly criminally false' statements on business practices

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Bezos ordered to testify in Congress, as Amazon accused of 'possibly criminally false' statements on business practices Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been ordered to testify before Congress by the House Judiciary Committee, which has accused the corporation of lying about its private labeling practices to cover up possible antitrust violations. In a letter the committee sent to Bezos on Friday, the e-commerce behemoth is accused of making "misleading, and possibly criminally false or perjurious statements" in previous testimony before the judiciary. Citing Amazon's sworn testimony that it "does not use any seller data to compete with [third-party merchants]," the committee contrasted those claims with a recent Wall Street Journal investigation that, havin...

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Trudeau bans ‘military-grade’ guns in Canada following largest mass shooting in country's history

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Trudeau bans ‘military-grade’ guns in Canada following largest mass shooting in country's history Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has announced that his government will be banning assault-style weapons, in response to last week's Nova Scotia rampage that saw 22 killed. The disturbing April 18-19 attack saw a 51-year-old denturist go on a wild killing spree, in which he shot his victims with two semi-automatic rifles and pistols, and also torched homes – to be later killed in a confrontation with police. Canadian police said it wasn't immediately clear why the suspect, identified as Gabriel Wortman, went on his 13-hour rampage, while reports have tied his violent breakdown to a property dispute and to alcohol abuse during the lockdown. Notably, the guns fou...

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'Project Restart': Premier League set for JUNE RETURN if UK government approves ambitious plans

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'Project Restart': Premier League set for JUNE RETURN if UK government approves ambitious plans Premier League action could return to action as soon as June with matches played behind closed doors at neutral venue if ambitious measures designed to complete the 2019-20 season are signed-off by the UK government. At a near four-hour meeting between representatives of all twenty Premier League clubs on Friday it was agreed that there is a commitment to conclude the current season, which has been curtailed since March 13 by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Each of the top flight teams was briefed on "Project Restart", an ambitious plan to finish the current season in June by holding games at a handful of neutral venues across England. ...

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‘Illegitimate presence’: Iran says Persian Gulf confrontation was sparked by US Navy encroaching on planned drills

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‘Illegitimate presence’: Iran says Persian Gulf confrontation was sparked by US Navy encroaching on planned drills A US-Iran confrontation in the Persian Gulf earlier this month kicked off due to the US Navy’s unauthorised presence during Iran's planned military drills, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official has said. IRGC naval commander Alireza Tangsiri told local media that the US forces were an “illegitimate presence” at the planned military maneuvers, “so they were ordered to leave.” Also on rt.com ‘Dangerous & harassing’? WATCH Iranian boats buzz US Navy vessels ‘patrolling’ Persian Gulf Responding to US accusations that the IRGC fleet provoked the confrontation by acting in a “...

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‘Trying every trick in the book’: UK government changes rules to hit 100k coronavirus tests target – report

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‘Trying every trick in the book’: UK government changes rules to hit 100k coronavirus tests target – report In its scramble to hit the target of 100,000 Covid-19 tests a day by the end of April, the UK government has revised the way it counts them, the Health Service Journal (HSJ) reports. UK health officials deny the claim. A test would previously only have been counted in its tally once the sample had been processed in a laboratory, but that’s changed in the past few days, a senior source told the HSJ. Also on rt.com ‘Thanking the Daily Mail for doing his job?’ UK health minister roasted after congratulating paper for £1m Chinese PPE haul It’s alleged that the Department of Health and Social Care is now als...

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Macron warns life ‘won’t be back to normal’ as Covid-19 forces French to find new way of ‘social distance’ protest

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Macron warns life ‘won’t be back to normal’ as Covid-19 forces French to find new way of ‘social distance’ protest France’s president has said that the national recovery would need to be ‘organized,’ in a speech at the Elysee Palace as the country celebrated a subdued Labor Day, while movement in the country remains tightly restricted. Emmanuel Macron said that the end of the nationwide lockdown in 10 days would just be a tentative first step on the road to recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. The president said life “wouldn’t be back to normal” and there will be “several phases” in lifting the restrictions, with May 11 just being “one of them.” He added that a “recovery [period] has to be organized”; his comments followed a meeting with French horticul...

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Mayor of Nice calls for Covid-19 ‘health passports’ to enter or leave France

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Mayor of Nice calls for Covid-19 ‘health passports’ to enter or leave France The mayor of Nice has urged French PM Edouard Philippe to introduce new travel controls during the Covid-19 pandemic through “health passports” in the parts of France which border other countries. Christian Estrosi posted the details of his letter on Facebook a day after PM Philippe unveiled plans to ease France’s lockdown in May, including finally increasing the strict one-kilometer movement limit to 100km of a person’s home. Philippe warned that people would need to “learn to live with the virus” while also starting to increase their movement and return to work if the country is to avert economic disaster. Also on rt.com ‘We must learn to...

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