David Harding
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Grim economic data reveals virus devastation
A new raft of bleak economic data laid bare the crippling worldwide impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as hard-hit Europe moved to further ease lockdown measures in a bid to get people back to work. The United States said another 3.2 million people filed unemployment claims last week, while → Read More
Coronavirus highlights role of foreign staff in British hospitals
Joan Pons Laplana is a senior digital charge nurse working on the frontline in an intensive care unit treating coronavirus patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospital in the north of England. Like many of his colleagues in the state-run National Health Service (NHS), the 45-year-old medic is not British → Read More
Under-fire UK govt rushes to build field hospitals as virus death toll surges
The UK government said Friday it was rushing to build more emergency field hospitals ahead of an expected surge in coronavirus cases, hours after recording a record 569 deaths from the disease. Two new facilities will be built in Bristol in the west and Harrogate in the north to house up to 1,500 patients → Read More
Instagram influencer sparks outrage and criminal charges for throwing chair off high-rise balcony
Toronto's mayor slammed Marcella Zoia's "grossly irresponsible behavior," while some critics say she should go to jail. → Read More
Qatar to quit Saudi-dominated OPEC in 2019
Qatar is to leave OPEC next month in order for the Gulf state to focus on gas production, the country's new Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi announced in a surprise move on Monday. Qatar has been a member of OPEC since 1961, and the decision to pull out comes at a turbulent time in Gulf politics, with → Read More
Journalist called 'Mr Kurd' by Donald Trump defends the president after Twitter outrage
Donald Trump introduces a Kurdish journalist as 'Mr Kurd' at a United Nations' press conference - and the reporter loves it → Read More
Man removed from Trump rally after he pulls faces behind the President's back
Man removed from Donald Trump election rally in Montana for pulling faces as the president spoke → Read More
Qatar crisis creates 'new' Gulf with no winners
The year-old acrimonious dispute between Qatar and its neighbours is forging a "new" Gulf, potentially transforming what was a stable region of the Arab world, experts warn. It has shattered old alliances and rendered the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council practically obsolete, pushing Qatar → Read More
Anxiety and stress admissions 'costing' NHS more than £70 million each year
It costs the NHS more than £70 million a year to deal with stress and anxiety-related hospital admissions think tank the New Economic Foundation has warned. → Read More
Kim Jong-un's jogging bodyguards steal the show at historic Korea summit
North Korea's jogging bodyguards surround leader Kim Jong-un as he heads to historic summit → Read More
North Korea slams the US over Winter Olympics invitation for father of 'tortured' student Otto Warmbier
North Korea hits out at the US, accusing it of a 'defamation campaign' after the father of Otto Warmbier was invited to the Winter Olympics → Read More
Ex-boyfriend admits manslaughter of university student, 23, found stabbed to death in car park
Joshua Stimpson, 26, the former boyfriend of a woman, Molly McLaren, 22, found stabbed to death in a Kent shopping centre car park has denied her murder. → Read More
'Wrong' Theresa May wants an apology from real Donald Trump after Twitter storm
Theresa Scrivener, the 'wrong' Theresa May from Bognor, is demanding an apology from US President Donald Trump after he mistook her for the British Prime Minister. → Read More
Qatar 'to introduce' minimum wage as part of labour reforms
World Cup 2022 host Qatar, under global scrutiny over its alleged ill-treatment of foreign workers, has agreed to a range of labour reforms including the introduction of a minimum wage. Other proposed changes include job contracts being lodged with the government so they cannot be changed on arrival → Read More
TV deal for 2026, 2030 World Cups 'advantageous' for FIFA
The TV broadcasting rights deal agreed for the 2026 and 2030 World Cups, which is under investigation by Swiss prosecutors, was "advantageous for FIFA", a beIN spokesman claimed Saturday. "The financial conditions were the most advantageous for FIFA," the spokesman told AFP, after → Read More
People are comparing Trump's response to Barcelona terror attack versus Obama's
Americans are turning to the their president at a time of terror abroad – though that just happens to be Barack Obama rather than Donald Trump. Following the deadly events in Barcelona, many are pointing out the difference in the responses of the former US president and the one who replaced him. While → Read More
Tillerson leaves Gulf with no end in sight to Qatar crisis
Tillerson met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani for the second time in 48 hours, together with a Kuwaiti mediator, on the final leg of his trip. Despite an intense round of shuttle diplomacy that also took Tillerson to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, tensions remained high between Qatar and → Read More
Qatar signs counter-terror deal as US looks to defuse Gulf row
Qatar and the United States signed a deal Tuesday on combatting "terrorism" as visiting US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pursued efforts to resolve the Gulf diplomatic crisis. In Qatar as part of a series of Gulf meetings, Tillerson also said Doha had been "reasonable" in the → Read More
Qatar slams 'unrealistic' demands by Arab rivals in Gulf crisis
Qatar said Tuesday the demands of Arab rivals in a Gulf diplomatic crisis were impossible to meet, ahead of talks in Egypt between Saudi Arabia and allies that have cut ties with Doha. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told a press conference in Doha that the list of conditions → Read More
Panicked Qatar shoppers stock up as Gulf rift bites
Shoppers in Doha were taking no chances on Monday despite Qatari officials reassuring residents there was no need to panic after Saudi Arabia imposed a de facto food blockade. Qatar shares its only land border with Saudi Arabia, and relies heavily on food imports, much of it from Gulf countries. Arab → Read More