Workers at Movianto, the private firm contracted to deliver the government’s PPE stockpile, say warehouses were ‘chaotic’ as delivery drivers tried to get essential equipment out to the NHS.
Turkey has hit back in a row over the shipment of crucial PPE supplies to the UK after Downing Street blamed ‘challenges at the Turkish end’ for the arrival of the kit being delayed.
OPEC and Russia have postponed a meeting planned for Monday until later next week, OPEC sources said on Saturday, as a row intensified between Moscow and Saudi Arabia over who is to blame for plunging oil prices. The meeting’s delay came despite pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting […]
Japan were forced to delay the highly-anticipated tournament with the killer virus sweeping its way around the world – a decision that could end up costing them another £2bn.
The campaign, run by Keep Britain Tidy and backed by the Daily Mail, has already had 689,935 volunteers sign up to litter-picking events. These will be put on hold because of coronavirus.
Family members of six American oil executives jailed in Venezuela are accusing Nicolas Maduro’s government of “forced disappearance” after the men were inexplicably missing for the scheduled start of their trial on Wednesday. Veronica Vadell said that lawyers for her father, Tomeu Vadell, and the five other executives from Houston-based Citgo had been waiting at […]
Results from the first-in-the-nation caucus have been stalled for hours on end as officials grapple with apparent technical issues involving an app that was used to transit results from the Iowa caucus on Monday night.Early entrance polls showed Bernie Sanders with a strong lead among young voters who showed up to partake in the caucus, […]
A federal judge on Friday delayed a gun possession trial against a Mexican man who was acquitted of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that became a national flashpoint, saying he has questions about the man’s mental competency. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria postponed a trial expected to start next […]
South Dakota officials say the scheduled execution of a man who killed a co-worker at a doughnut shop may be delayed as they await action from the U.S. Supreme Court on three appeals. Charles Russell Rhines was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 1:30 p.m. Monday for the 1992 slaying of 22-year-old Donnivan Schaeffer […]
Novartis scientists learnt months ago about safety concerns surrounding its gene therapy Zolgensma but delayed telling the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to what the Swiss drugmaker said was a “mistake”. The FDA on Wednesday placed a partial hold on a Novartis trial of the $2.1 million-per-patient gene therapy after the company informed […]