Here are the latest updates:Foreign workers are often the backbone of many societies. They are doctors, nurses, shop assistants and managers.Others perform low-skilled work that citizens of wealthier nations will not do. They have families that depend on the money they send back home. But millions of migrant workers have seen their livelihoods evaporate as the coronavirus spreads.Salaries are being cut or staff fired as economies are disrupted by lockdowns. The World Bank says global remittances will drop by 20 percent this year, the sharpest fall in recent history.So will the crisis change...…Here are the latest updates:Foreign workers are often the backbone of many societies. They are doctors, nurses, shop assistants and managers.Others perform low-skilled work that citizens of wealthier nations will not do. They have families that depend on the money they send back home. But millions of migrant workers have seen their livelihoods evaporate as the coronavirus spreads.Salaries are being cut or staff fired as economies are disrupted by lockdowns. The World Bank says global remittances will drop by 20 percent this year, the sharpest fall in recent history.So will the crisis change...WW…

Here are the latest updates:Saudi Arabia extended the suspension of praying in the Grand Mosque and Prophet’s Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the presidency of the Two Holy Mosques said on Twitter citing its President General Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudais.The streets of Accra buzzed with life on Monday, a day after Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the end of a three-week lockdown on movement around the capital and the city of Kumasi.While some Ghanaians were relieved to get back to work, others were left fretting after...…Here are the latest updates:Saudi Arabia extended the suspension of praying in the Grand Mosque and Prophet’s Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the presidency of the Two Holy Mosques said on Twitter citing its President General Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudais.The streets of Accra buzzed with life on Monday, a day after Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the end of a three-week lockdown on movement around the capital and the city of Kumasi.While some Ghanaians were relieved to get back to work, others were left fretting after...WW…

Amid criticism over Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus, the US president played a campaign style video put together by White House staffers defending his actions.The criticism comes after recent reports suggested that the White House was warned of the potential deadly cost of the virus’s spread before taking action and putting in place mitigation efforts.Trump had previously denied seeing a January 30 memo by a senior US official warning of mass casualties and economic devastation from the new coronavirus, months before the pandemic began inflicting thousands of deaths in the...…Amid criticism over Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus, the US president played a campaign style video put together by White House staffers defending his actions.The criticism comes after recent reports suggested that the White House was warned of the potential deadly cost of the virus’s spread before taking action and putting in place mitigation efforts.Trump had previously denied seeing a January 30 memo by a senior US official warning of mass casualties and economic devastation from the new coronavirus, months before the pandemic began inflicting thousands of deaths in the...WW…

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped in the last 24 hours by 189 to 1,016, a rise of 23 percent, the country’s Civil Protection Agency said on Thursday.The total number of cases in Italy, the European country hardest hit by the virus, rose to 15,113 from a previous 12,462, an increase of 21.7 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a  as Italy tightened its strict quarantine and the United States imposed a ban on flights to Europe.More than 4,600 people have died and over 126,000 have been infected globally, according...…The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped in the last 24 hours by 189 to 1,016, a rise of 23 percent, the country’s Civil Protection Agency said on Thursday.The total number of cases in Italy, the European country hardest hit by the virus, rose to 15,113 from a previous 12,462, an increase of 21.7 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a  as Italy tightened its strict quarantine and the United States imposed a ban on flights to Europe.More than 4,600 people have died and over 126,000 have been infected globally, according...WW…

Here’s Al Jazeera’s coverage of the US elections. This is Tamila Varshalomidze taking over from Creede Newton.We are closing this blog now. These were the updates up to 16:00 GMT on Thursday, January 7. For the latest news lookFacebook has banned President Donald Trump from the platform “indefinitely” due to the US leader’s efforts to incite the violence in the US capital this week, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said.Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page that the ban, which was announced Wednesday for 24 hours, was extended because of Trump’s “use of our platform to incite violent...…Here’s Al Jazeera’s coverage of the US elections. This is Tamila Varshalomidze taking over from Creede Newton.We are closing this blog now. These were the updates up to 16:00 GMT on Thursday, January 7. For the latest news lookFacebook has banned President Donald Trump from the platform “indefinitely” due to the US leader’s efforts to incite the violence in the US capital this week, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said.Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page that the ban, which was announced Wednesday for 24 hours, was extended because of Trump’s “use of our platform to incite violent...WW…