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European plans to use apps in virus tracking face setbacks

Doubts were growing Thursday over whether ambitious plans by European governments to use contact-tracing apps to fight the spread of the coronavirus will be able to be implemented with any real effectiveness soon. In contrast, there appeared to be some movement forward in the sprint to find...

Israeli websites targeted in major cyber attack

Many Israeli websites were hit by a coordinated cyber attack Thursday, with the home pages replaced by images of the country's commercial capital Tel Aviv in flames. Israel's National Cyber Directorate said private companies using a particular operating system were targeted, but said the...

Lebanon PM pledges to stem devaluation, reduce food prices

Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab pledged Thursday to stem devaluation and introduce subsidies on food imports, as his cabinet marked 100 days since it was formed to redress a free-falling economy. Lebanon is facing its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, now compounded...

Some 1.9M people recover from virus globally

Global coronavirus recoveries crossed the 1.9 million mark on Thursday, according to a running tally by the US’ Johns Hopkins University. The university's data showed a total of 1,901,079 million people won the battle against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus....