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GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 12,170,840 DEATHS: 552,121 RECOVERED: 7,070,199 ……………………………………… ………………………………………………………………… Public spending on coronavirus soars to £190bn  BBC News says public spending on the battle against coronavirus has risen to nearly £190bn according to figures from the Treasury. The total was reached after the chancellor announced a £30bn package to combat the crisis in his summer statement on Wednesday. The reaction was mixed from business groups, several backed Rishi Sunak’s priority of saving jobs. But some industries in crisis say they had been “ignored.” Read the full story on BBC News ………………………………………………………………… Boris Johnson refuses to apologise to…

Dubai Police will start using trained K9 dogs to detect COVI-19 patients. Ministry of Interior officers in the United Arab Emirates have successfully completed trials in Dubai, involving the use of K9 police sniffer dogs in detecting COVID-19 patients as part of preventive and precautionary measures aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. The use of sniffer dogs comes after successful completion of practical experiments and scientific studies which authorities hope to use in the UAE, especially at its airports and ports. Experiments carried out in Dubai and the rest of the UAE has relied on high-speed sampling from the…

The Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died, minutes after falling ill at a ministerial cabinet meeting, the country’s President announced. In a statement, President Alassane Ouattara said the nation was in mourning over Coulibaly’s death on Wednesday afternoon, which occurred shortly after he attended a cabinet meeting in the Presidential Palace. He described the prime minister as his closest collaborator over a 30-year period. He said Mr Gon Coulibaly had become unwell during a weekly cabinet meeting and was taken to hospital where he later died. “I pay tribute to my younger brother, my son, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who…

Harvard and MIT two of America’s top Universities have started legal proceeding to block President Trump’s administration for threatening to revoke foreign student visa whose courses have moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic. The universities’ lawsuit was in response to an announcement Monday by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the students with virtual classrooms must leave the country or transfer to a school offering in-person tuition. ICE said in its announcement the State Department would not issue visas to students enrolled in programs that are fully online for the fall semester and such students would not…

Instagram has censored the official Bella Hadid Instagram account for being pro- Palestinian. Bella Hadid called out social media platform Instagram for taking down her post that stated that her father, real estate mogul, Mohammed Hadid was born in Palestine. the 23-year-old, who is of Dutch and Palestinian descent, shared a photograph of her father’s expired American passport, which stated his place of birth as Palestine on her Instagram Story, writing “My baba and his birthplace of Palestine.” Bella Hadid Instagram On Tuesday, Hadid revealed to her 31.4 million Instagram followers that the post was taken down, as it allegedly…

GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 11,955,637 DEATHS: 546,721 RECOVERED: 6,902,360 ………………………………………………………………… Rishi Sunak to unveil ‘kickstart job scheme’ for young people BBC News says Rishi Sunak will announce a £2bn “kickstart scheme” later to create more jobs for young people.  The fund will subsidise six-month work placement for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment.  Labour has welcomed the move, but said the government had failed to “rise to the scale of unemployment.” Read the full story on BBC News ………………………………………………………………… US officially withdrawing from the WHO CNN says the Trump…

British author and WTX News Journalist Yvonne Ridley has made an astonishing offer to go to war-torn Syria and demand the release of East London aid worker Tauqir ‘Tox’ Sharif who was kidnapped by Idlib’s Syrian Rebels, the controlling rebel group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. Ridley, from Scotland, is understood to be in direct dialogue with the Islamists, in an attempt to break the deadlock between HTS and Sharif’s family, friends and supporters. Syrian Rebels Take ‘Tox’ captive The British aid worker was arrested on June 29 by around 15 HTS men heavily armed and wearing masks. Eyewitnesses have confirmed reports…

I don’t normally cry that easily but there were sections of Alice Walker’s book which caused me to tear up and on the final pages I struggled to read because my eyes were so full. but this book will make you laugh as well. Therefore it comes as no surprise to discover The Color Purple won Walker the coveted Pulitzer Prize and a host of other awards back in 1983. The only surprise for me is that it has taken me this long to read the novel. It has been described as a piece of feminist work about an abused and uneducated African American woman’s struggle…

GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 11,744,397 DEATHS: 540,764 RECOVERED: 6,740,096 ………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………….. Fury as Boris Johnson accuses care homes over high Covid-19 death toll  The Guardian says care leaders, unions and MPs have rounded on PM Boris Johnson after he accused care homes of failing to follow proper procedures amid the coronavirus crisis, saying the PM appeared to be shifting blame for the high death toll.  With nearly 20,000 care home residents confirmed to have died with Covid-19 and estimate that the true toll is much greater, there has been widespread criticism about a lack of PPE, testing and clear…

The US will not allow foreign students to stay if their university classes move online. And the US is to send foreign students back home if universities don’t resume classes soon. “Nonimmigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States,” US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. “Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status,” ICE said. “If…