Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump has surprised supporters gathered outside the hospital where he is being treated with Covid-19 by riding past in a motorcade. Wearing a mask, the president waved inside a car moments after tweeting that he would pay a “surprise visit”. Mr Trump, who has been
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The Japanese founder of the Kenzo fashion brand has died from Covid-19, according to a spokesman for the firm quoted by French media. Kenzo Takada died at the American Hospital in Paris at the age of 81, his statement says. Known for his colourful graphic and floral prints, he was the first Japanese designer to
Civilians are being forced to flee the city of Stepanakert as clashes continue over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The enclave is officially part of Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians. More than 200 people are now known to have been killed, including civilians, since the fighting between troops from Armenia and Azerbaijan began a week
Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump says he is doing well, but that the next few days will be the “real test”. The video, posted on Twitter on Saturday evening, comes after mixed messages earlier in the day about his health, after a Covid-19 diagnosis. The president’s physician said late
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Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump has spent his first night in a military hospital where he is receiving treatment after testing positive for coronavirus. “Going well, I think!” Mr Trump tweeted late on Friday. US media said his symptoms included a mild fever. He has so far been treated
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The release of the new James Bond film has been delayed again. The premiere of No Time To Die has already been moved from April to November due to the pandemic. The film has now been further delayed until 2 April 2021 “in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience”, a statement on
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will speak in a video call later, after negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal broke up without agreement. Both sides are calling on the other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and government subsidies. Mr Johnson told the Daily Telegraph chances of
The restrictions have been resisted by Madrid’s city authorities, which tried to use the courts to block their imposition. Madrid’s justice minister said it would cost the capital’s economy €8bn (£7bn) and regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso tweeted: “Thanks for the chaos, [Prime Minister] Pedro Sánchez.”
US President Donald Trump is being taken to hospital less than 24 hours after testing positive for coronavirus. The White House said the decision to transport him to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre was taken “out of an abundance of caution”. Mr Trump began exhibiting “mild symptoms” of Covid-19 on Thursday after disclosing that
Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump has mild symptoms of Covid-19 after he and his wife Melania tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House says. Mr Trump’s chief of staff said the president was “on the job” and “in good spirits”, adding that he expected him to make a
Last week a man wounded two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, which the government denounced as “Islamist terrorism”. In January 2015, jihadists killed 12 people in and around the magazine’s offices to avenge its publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
US President Donald Trump has said he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus and are in quarantine. The president announced the news in a tweet. It comes after one of Mr Trump’s closest aides tested positive for coronavirus. Hope Hicks, the 31-year-old adviser to the president, was the closest aide to