Nigeria news today headlines : Friday 3rd July 2020
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Palestinian Rivals Hamas, Fatah Threaten Israel’s Annexation Plans
The rival groups have called for unifying resistance against plans to annex parts of the West Bank, long considered part of a future Palestinian state. But analysts say the show of unity is unlikely to result in action. Rival Palestinian factions on Thursday pledged unity against Israeli plans to annex part of the West Bank. “We …
Fiat Warns Workers Won’t Be Paid If They Halt Assembly Lines
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV issued a stern warning to employees after workers at two of its U.S. plants stopped production last week over concern management wasn’t properly handling coronavirus risks. “Unauthorized work stoppages in our facilities create both disruption, and, potentially, safety concerns, and therefore cannot be tolerated,” Mike Resha, Fiat Chrysler’s head of North …
Cambodia’s Rice Exports Rise In First Half
Cambodia earned over 264 million USD from exporting 397,660 tonnes of rice in the first half of 2020, up 41 percent against the same period in 2019, according to the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). China remained the largest importer of Cambodian rice in the period, accounting for 37 percent of the Southeast Asian nation’s total rice export, Cambodia’s Fresh …
COVID-19: US Employers Take Back 4.8 Million workers As Pandemic Threatens Economy
US employers took back another 4.8 million workers last month as the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact appeared to wane, marking the second consecutive month of jobs growth. But the latest figures are from before new surges in infections that threaten the fragile recovery. The US Department of Labor announced on Thursday that the unemployment rate …
England To Join West Indies In Wearing BLM Logo
England will join the West Indies in wearing a Black Lives Matter logo on their playing shirts throughout the upcoming Test series. England captain Joe Root, who will miss the first Test to attend the birth of his second child, said: ‘It is important to show solidarity to the black community and to raise much …
China Conducts Naval Drills In South China Sea
On Wednesday, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) began exercises in the South China Sea focused around amphibious assault activities. Prior to the exercises, a PLAN amphibious assault ship was seen at Woody Island, the largest natural Chinese-held feature in the South China Sea and host to major military facilities in the Paracel Islands. …
High Court Keeps Mueller Materials Sealed
The U.S. Supreme Court all but guaranteed House Democrats won’t get pre-election access to confidential materials from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, agreeing to hear a Trump administration appeal likely to extend a legal fight into next year. The justices said they will review a lower court order that would require the Justice Department …
Havana To Ease COVID-19 Lockdown
Cuba has announced it will begin easing a pandemic lockdown on Havana on Friday, while most of the rest of the country will move to phase two of a three-phase process towards normalization. The capital’s 2.2 million residents will once more be able to move around on public and private transport, go to the beach …
England Plans To Reopen Schools In September
UK Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson has unveiled his plan to reopen schools to all pupils in September. Among other measures, students will be divided into separate groups, known as “bubbles”, to limit contact and to better isolate new infections. Schools should consider asking pupils in different bubbles to follow separate start and finish …
UK To Ditch Travel Quarantine For 75 Countries
The British government will effectively ditch its air bridge plans and simply end coronavirus quarantine rules for those arriving from 75 countries so that people can go on holiday, the Telegraph newspaper reported. It said the UK would shortly lift a ban on non-essential travel to nearly all EU destinations, the British territories including Bermuda …
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