South Australia’s premier told reporters Friday that the decision to put the state into a six-day lockdown was triggered by a “lie” to contact tracers from one individual.The announcement came two days after the state government ordered residents to st…
WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied Friday that by ending several emergency loan programs being run by the Federal Reserve, he was trying to limit the choices President-elect Joe Biden will have to promote an economic recovery.Mnuchin…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday urged Canadians to stay home, avoid contact with others and follow public health rules to help slow the spread of COVID-19, after health officials warned of a possible explosive surge in virus cases. In …
Journalists covering the presidential campaigns have faced the wrath of security forces on what seems to be targeted attacks on the media to scare them from covering the violence being meted out on Ugandans.Police and other security forces have unleash…
The United States has surpassed 250,000 coronavirus deaths as new cases surge in many parts of the country.New York City on Wednesday announced the closure of its school system, the nation’s largest, with the city recording a seventh consecutive day wi…
MIAMI – A devastating new wave of U.S. coronavirus cases is forcing school districts to consider again closing classrooms and returning to remote online instruction, creating educational hurdles that can be especially severe for millions of poor and mi…
Thursday brought further good news from the global effort to produce a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. A report published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet says that a potential vaccine developed by…
Asian markets are mostly higher Wednesday as worries about the growing number of coronavirus infections in the United States and Europe has tempered optimism about a potentially safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. The S&P/ASX index…
New York City Wednesday ordered schools to close, as the city recorded a seventh-straight day with a COVID-19 positivity rate of over 3%. “Public school buildings will be closed as of tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 19, out an abundance of caution. We must fig…
Presidential candidate Gen Mugisha Muntu has suspended his campaign activities over the arrest of fellow presidential contenders, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine and Patrick Amuriat.”We have decided to pause our presidential campaign activities until…
The Alliance for National Transformation, (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen Mugisha Muntu, has described the arrest of fellow presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi by security forces as reckless and disrespectful.About three presidential candida…
Salima Kafuko, a P7 candidate at Kamuli Township and two of her colleagues were rushed to Kamuli general Hospital after they fainted from school as Teargas and gunfire rocked Kamuli Municipality in attempts by security forces to quell pro-Bobi Wine dem…
President Museveni has vowed to stop the suffering of bibanja owners in Buganda, Bunyoro, Tooro, and Ankole and asked the affected people to resist illegal evictions by land grabbers, errant land lords and their agents.In his message issued last week t…