Public sector employees in Jordan began a phased return to work on Tuesday, more than two months after they were told to stay at home under a coronavirus lockdown. Most of the country's 250,000 civil servants had not been working in their offices since a state of emergency was declared in mid-March. Sameh al Nasser,...
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As the Bank of England says it's considering the idea of negative interest rates as a last resort amid the Covid-19 crisis, the US Federal Reserve's balance sheet has topped $7 trillion for the first time ever. That number represents “a black hole of debt,” according to Max Keiser of RT's Keiser Report. “There's no...
Intensified shelling on the contact line between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic may undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. “The Kremlin wants the parties to meet their commitments, first of all, on halting the shelling of territories where civilians live and in general the...
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A CLAIM that nursing homes were left "isolated" by the State in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak has been angrily rejected in the Dáil.
THE feared surge in coronavirus cases happened in nursing homes, not in hospitals, TDs probing the State's response to the pandemic has been told.
