Month: May 2020

Categories Latin America

Ecuador’s Moreno govt persecutes opponents as coronavirus catastrophe exposes its neoliberal war on public sector

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Sentencing former President Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas to eight years in jail and barring them from public office for an additional 25 years is a desperate move by a repressive administration trapped in a socio-economic crisis of its own making. … Read More >Ecuador’s Moreno govt persecutes opponents as coronavirus catastrophe exposes its neoliberal war on public sector

Categories Business

Chinese tourists made 115 million trips during the May Day holiday. While short of last year’s figures, the hard-hit tourism industry could be slowly rebounding after the Covid-19 crisis.

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Chinese tourists made 115 million trips during the May Day holiday. While short of last year’s figures, the hard-hit tourism industry could be slowly rebounding after the Covid-19 crisis. … Read More >Chinese tourists made 115 million trips during the May Day holiday. While short of last year’s figures, the hard-hit tourism industry could be slowly rebounding after the Covid-19 crisis.

Categories Russia

Putin approves first steps for Russia to loosen coronavirus lockdown, warns regional governors to tread carefully

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Russia will begin to partially lift its Covid-19 lockdown from Monday when restrictions on industrial and construction businesses are removed, Sergey Sobyanin announced during a government meeting chaired by Vladimir Putin. … Read More >Putin approves first steps for Russia to loosen coronavirus lockdown, warns regional governors to tread carefully

Categories World

‘Don’t teach us from your beautiful villas’: Social media slams celebs urging AGAINST return to normality after Covid-19

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A group of renowned showbiz stars and Nobel Prize recipients, warned against prioritizing Covid-19 over the “ecological disaster.” The internet, however, fired back, accusing them of talking down to working-class people. … Read More >‘Don’t teach us from your beautiful villas’: Social media slams celebs urging AGAINST return to normality after Covid-19

Categories Health

‘No going back to business as usual’: WHO boss says pandemic won’t end until inequalities fueling it are addressed

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The head of the World Health Organization has said the Covid-19 pandemic won’t be successfully tackled until the world deals with the inequalities that have allowed the virus to wreak havoc across the globe. … Read More >‘No going back to business as usual’: WHO boss says pandemic won’t end until inequalities fueling it are addressed

Categories World

Over 90,000 medics infected with Covid-19 worldwide, but actual number could be double that – nurses group

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More than 90,000 medics have been infected with Covid-19 around the globe, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) said, warning the actual number could be two times higher and sounding alarm over protective equipment shortages. … Read More >Over 90,000 medics infected with Covid-19 worldwide, but actual number could be double that – nurses group