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Trudeau announces more funding for food banks

Trudeau also announced an additional 100 million Canadian dollars (about $76 million) in federal funding for food banks across Canada to help them meet the surge in demand…Reports Asian Lite News Canadian

October 11, 2020

-Top News·COVID-19·World News

‘Humanity above the realm of politics’: Guterres hails WFP

Guterres said he is delighted by the decision of the Nobel Committee to award this year’s Prize for Peace to the WFP…Reports Asian Lite News UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ has hailed the

October 11, 2020

Health·World News

Asian Lite Daily Digital – The Wreckage Of Trump’s Presidency

The Wreckage Of Trump’s Presidency; WHO Estimates 10% of Global Population Infected With Virus; UK Outlines Plans For Post-Brexit Freeports; 39 Countries Rebuke China Over Human Rights Abuses; Pakistan Books PM of

October 8, 2020

-Top News·World News

Australia to reinitiate ‘trans-Tasman’ travel bubble plans

McCormack said that decision on when Australians may be able to visit New Zealand would be up to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…Reports Asian Lite News New Zealanders will be allowed to enter

October 2, 2020

Australia News·World News

France opens new era in relationship with animals

“It is time that our ancestral fascination with these wild beings no longer means they end up in captivity.”said Pompili…Reports Asian Lite News France has said it will gradually ban the use

September 30, 2020

EU News·World News

Belgium swears in new PM after 493 days

De Croo is set to lead the country’s 7-party Vivaldi coalition of Flemish and Francophone socialists, liberals and greens…Reports Asian Lite News Flemish liberal leader Alexander De Croo will be Belgium’s new

September 30, 2020

EU News·World News

Venezuelan oil revenue drops 99% in six years

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, but its oil industry is hobbled by US sanctions which have thrown the country into its worst economic crisis in years...Reports Asian Lite News Venezuelan

September 30, 2020

-Top News·World News

120mn Covid 19 rapid tests to be rolled out for poorer countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) will roll out at least 120 million affordable, high-quality rapid Covid-19 tests for low and middle-income countries, said in an announcement on Monday According to a statement

September 29, 2020

-Top News·World News

Covid 19 death toll passes ‘an agonising milestone’: Guterres

The global death toll from the coronavirus has passed one million.With over one million lives having succumbed to COVID-19 globally, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that while the “agonising milestone” is a

September 29, 2020

-Top News·World News

Canada to secure 20mn more Covid 19 vaccine doses

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that the country has signed a deal to secure 20 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses. Addressing the media here, Trudeau said the agreement was signed

September 27, 2020

Canada News·World News

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