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Hours after a Pakistan Cricket Board doctor admitted that the England tour is dangerous under the current circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic, three players have tested positive for the virus, the board confirmed. The PCB said on Monday evening that Haider Ali, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan – have tested positive for Covid-19. The PCB medical team is in touch with the players who have been advised to immediately go into self-isolation, PCB said in a statement. The players had shown no symptoms until they had been tested in Rawalpindi on Sunday ahead of the Pakistan men’s national cricket…

Saudi Aramco’s acquisition of petrochemical maker SABIC will accelerate the company’s downstream strategy and transform it into a global petrochemical player, an official of the state oil giant told al-Arabiya TV. “We expect long-term demand for petrochemicals to grow, with the sector expected to record the fastest growth in oil demand to 2040,” said Abdulaziz al-Gudaimi, a senior vice president at Aramco. Also Read: Saudi Arabia records 3,393 new cases Saudi Arabia to block 231 websites that violate laws Saudi Arabia to launch $4 billion tourism development fund

As part of relentless efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, Dubai authorities are continuing to increase the provision of COVID-19 testing across government and private hospitals and drive-through centres. The emirate’s various testing facilities have completed a total of over 612, 000 COVID-19 tests as of 19 June, according to the COVID-19 Command and Control Centre. Ensuring the widespread availability of COVID-19 testing is part of an integrated plan to further curb the spread of the virus and offer immediate medical care to infected people at hospitals, accredited facilities and quarantine centres. Comprehensive measures are undertaken by the emirate to…

Amin “Fierceness” Ayoub hasn’t been afraid to call out the top names in BRAVE Combat Federation’s Lightweight division. The French-Tunisian athlete made a statement in his promotional debut by submitting Djamil Chan and is ready for the biggest challenges in his division. And they don’t come bigger than Cleiton “Predator” Silva, the reigning world champion. Ayoub has recently hinted he would love to challenge “Predator” for the title very soon, as he feels his resume matches up well with that of the champion. Amin has been a double-weight champion in his previous promotion and will look to get his first…

Bahrain International Airport (BIA) is rolling out additional health and safety measures to protect the wellbeing of passengers and staff at the terminal, Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) announced. It is in line with Bahrain Civil Aviation Affairs Advisory Circular, the Kingdom’s aviation regulator. The CAA guidelines are in line with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) latest guidelines for combating the coronavirus (COVID-19) and support preventative measures recommended by the Ministry of Health (MOH). The measures will be regularly updated based on new scientific findings as the situation evolves. “BAC has implemented a number of precautionary measures recommended by the Ministry…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday marked the date of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union by meeting with veterans and visiting a new military church. Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin wall and greeted World War II veterans. He also visited the newly built main cathedral of the Russian military on Moscow’s western outskirts. Nazi Germany invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, starting nearly four years of fighting that killed 27 million Soviet people and left the western part of the country in ruins. “It was a terrible and…

Global cases of the novel coronavirus surpassed 9 million on Monday, as Brazil and India grappled with a surge in infections, and the United States, China and other hard-hit countries reported new outbreaks, according to a Reuters tally. The first case was reported in China in early January and it took until mid-May to reach 4.5 million cases. It has taken just five weeks to double to 9 million cases, the tally shows. The United States leads the world with the highest number of infections, at about 2.2 million or 25% of all reported cases. The tally shows the disease…

Delta Air Lines Inc said on Monday it would resume flights between Seattle and Shanghai on June 25, making it the first U.S. airline to restart operations between the United States and China after flights were suspended in February due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The flights will operate twice a week in June and once a week starting July from Seattle and Detroit, Delta said. Last week, the U.S. Transportation Department said the United States and China would each allow four weekly flights between the two countries, easing the standoff on travel restrictions in the midst of the novel coronavirus…

Saudi Arabia has reported 3,393 new cases and 40 deaths from coronavirus, taking the total cases to 161,005. The death toll raised to 1,307 after reporting the new deaths. Meanwhile, 4,045 patients fully recovered from the virus, bringing the total recoveries to 105,175. In line with recent trends, the majority of the new cases were in the capital Riyadh (438), followed by Jeddah (388) and Dammam (345). https://twitter.com/media_ksa/status/1275044674923888652?s=20 Also Read: Kuwait records 641 new cases, as total crosses 40,000 Saudi Arabia to block 231 websites that violate laws Saudi Arabia to launch $4 billion tourism development fund

An Indian state has put on hold three initial investment proposals from Chinese companies worth 50 billion rupees ($658 million), a state minister said on Monday, after a deadly border clash between the two nuclear-armed nations last week. The decision by the state government of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial capital of Mumbai, com.es days after it signed the investment agreements with the three Chinese companies, including Great Wall Motor Co. “In the current environment we will wait for the federal government to announce a clear policy regarding these projects,” Maharashtra’s industries minister, Subhash Desai said in a statement, adding…