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Burmese migrant worker in Bangkok, Thailand. — courtesy IOM/Benjamin Suomela

September 19, 2020

An uncertain future for migrant workers, in a post-pandemic world

GENEVA — The COVID-19 pandemic has largely put a freeze on migration. But will the movement of people recover once the current crisis is over? In an interview with UN News, Gary Rynhart, a senior official at the UN labor agency, ILO, explains why a return to “normal” is unlikely, and migrants will probably face a very different job market.Rynhart: When COVID-19 spread around the world, many migrants were shipped ...

UAE Minister of Health and Prevention Abdul Rahman Al-Owais takes the first COVID-19 vaccine dose. — Photo courtesy WAM

September 19, 2020

UAE health minister gets first COVID-19 vaccine dose

ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates’ Minister of Health and Prevention Abdul Rahman Al-Owais has taken the country’s first COVID-19 vaccine dose days after authorities approved it for emergency use for frontline health workers, the official WAM news agency reported on Saturday.Al-Owais said the UAE aims to provide all safety means for the “heroes” working on the front lines and to protect them from any dangers they may face ...

September 19, 2020

India overtakes US in global corona recoveries

NEW DELHI — India's COVID-19 case tally crossed the 5.3 million-mark with a spike of 93,337 new cases in last 24 hours, data released by the health ministry on Saturday morning showed. The total number of confirmed cases now stands at 53,08,015 including 10,13,964 active cases. The country also witnessed 1,247 deaths during the 24-hour period, it said.With record 95,885 recoveries, India has overtaken the United States to record the ...

A man has his body temperature reading taken in Dubai in this file photo

September 19, 2020

UAE conducts 103,124 tests, detects 809 cases

ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates detected 809 new coronavirus cases after conducting 103,124 tests over the past 24 hours, announced the Ministry of Health on Saturday.A further 722 people recovered from the virus, with one person dying due to coronavirus-related complications, added the ministry of health via NCEMA on Twitter.This brings the COVID-19 death toll in the UAE to 404.The 809 new cases are a slight drop on ...

Health experts have cautioned that Iran is still in the grip of a coronavirus pandemic. They said the virus is more likely to affect the capital city of Tehran as compared to other provinces. — File photo

September 19, 2020

Iran’s COVID-19 death toll tops 24,000

TEHRAN — Iran's coronavirus death toll has risen by 166 to 24,118, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV on Saturday.The total number of identified cases spiked by 2,845 in the last 24 hours to 419,043 in Iran, one of the Middle East's worst-hit countries, spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari was quoted as saying.In addition, the Iranian health experts have cautioned that the country is still in the grip of a ...

September 19, 2020

Kuwait schools expected to resume on Oct. 4

KUWAIT CITY — The e-learning committee at Kuwait's Ministry of Education has announced the e-learning schedule for all public school students.All schools are expected to resume on Oct. 4, after a seven-month halt that began on March 12.All classes will be conducted online in real time for all students in fourth grade and higher. As for kindergarteners up to third graders, the committee has decided that all their lessons will ...

Lebanese and French troops ride a boat past the damaged grain silo near the site of the massive blast in Beirut's port area. — File photo

September 19, 2020

Firework cache found at devastated Beirut port

BEIRUT — Lebanon's army said it had found 1.3 tons of fireworks during a search of Beirut port, which was devastated last month in a huge blast that was blamed on a large quantity of chemicals kept in poor condition.The army said in a statement, released on its website on Friday, that 1,320 kg of fireworks were found in 120 boxes in a warehouse during a search of the port. ...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 19, 2020

Justice Ruth Ginsburg of US is dead at 87

WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the US Supreme Court since 1993, has died on at age 87, the court said.It gives President Donald Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third appointment at a time of deep divisions in America with a presidential election looming.Ms. Ginsburg, a champion of women's rights who became an icon for American liberals, died at her home ...

Ammonium nitrate is under scrutiny after a stockpile blew up in Beirut port last month. — File photo

September 19, 2020

No evidence of Hezbollah explosives stores: France

PARIS — France’s foreign ministry on Friday said there was no evidence to suggest Lebanon’s Hezbollah was storing chemicals to make explosives in France after a senior US official said the group had set up caches in Europe since 2012.Speaking on Thursday, Nathan Sales, the US State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism, accused the Iran-backed group of smuggling and storing chemicals, including ammonium nitrate, from Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain ...

US President Donald Trump speaks with officials at Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, earlier this month. — File photo

September 19, 2020

Corona vaccine for every American by April: Trump

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday he expects to have available enough doses of a coronavirus vaccine for every American by April."Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month, and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April," Trump told a news conference.He said distribution of a vaccine will begin within 24 hours of it being approved by federal health regulators."In a short ...

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