Ottawa, March 21  Half a million people have applied for employment insurance in Canada in the last four days following layoffs due to the economic impact of coronavirus pandemic that has plunged the country into its worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression of 1932.

Last year, the figure stood at

Geneva, March 21  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned young people that they were "not invincible" against the coronavirus pandemic.

"Today I have a message for young people: You are not invincible," the WHO chief said at a live-strea

Washington, March 21  The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is extending the federal income tax filing deadline to July 15 as part of the efforts to minimise the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced.

At President Donald Trump's direction, "we are mo

Washington, March 21  Nearly three in four Americans said that their lives have been changed in some way by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll.

In this week's ABC News/Ipsos poll which released on Friday, 72 per cent of the surveyed said that their lives have been disrupted in some way, eit

Beirut, March 21  Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the resistance had nothing to do with the decision issued by a military court in Lebanon to acquit Amer Fakhoury, the former head of an Israeli-linked prison.

Nasrallah made the remarks in a speech on Friday broadcasted on the al-Manar local

Riyadh, March 21  Saudi Arabia predicted that the deficit of the 2020 state budget will range between 7 to 9 per cent amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking to the media on Friday, Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan stressed the country's financial and economic capability to deal with the coronavirus cr

New York, March 21  On the strength of new data from the surging caseload, the White House Coronavirus Task Force cautioned Americans that "nobody is immune to the virus" and the contagion level from the pandemic was high for every age group.


"We continue to see signs that individuals u

New York, March 21  More than a quarter of Americans will be under a semi-lockdown this weekend under orders from governors of four states with the number of coronavirus cases in the US zooming to 19,101.

On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced stringent regulations for the state, which has the hi

Wellington, March 21  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that the country has implemented a new alert system corresponding to the coronavirus pandemic

The alert system operates in a similar way to terrorism alerts, with each step on the scale corresponding to a different level of threa

Patna, March 21 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised the people of Bihar for their preparation of Sunday's 'Janata Curfew' for which he gave a call on Thursday.

Modi, in a tweet in Hindi, said: "Salute to the people of Bihar, who are already prepared for the 'Janata Curfew'...&quo