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Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo is given the green light by the watchdog due to fears the delivery service would go bust without it The Covid-19 lockdown is causing grave financial harm to Deliveroo’s business Takeaway.com’s £6.2billion takeover of its rival Just Eat has also been probed Deliveroo was started by two American expatriates Will Shu … Read more
Bill and Melinda Gates say Trump’s halting of WHO funding is dangerous and ‘does not make any sense’ as the philanthropists pledge an extra $150 million to fight coronavirus pandemic Trump announced halt in US funding to World Health Organization on Tuesday Bill and Melinda Gates slammed his decision as one that ‘doesn’t make sense’ … Read more
The UK will not follow Donald Trump by freezing hundreds of millions of pounds in funding for the World Health Organisation, Downing Street insisted today. The PM’s spokesman said the government believes the WHO has an ‘important role to play’ in the global response to coronavirus. The US president launched an extraordinary attack on the … Read more
The head of the World Health Organization said today he ‘regrets’ Donald Trump’s decision to suspend US funding for the agency and called for ‘solidarity’ in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO’s embattled chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference that ‘this is a time for all of us to be united in our common … Read more
Bill Gates slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold $500million in funding to the World Health Organization, saying it’s ‘as dangerous as it sounds’. The tech magnate, worth $104billion, tweeted Wednesday saying the US’ involvement with the WHO is more necessary than ever. ‘Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis … Read more
China has warned it has ‘serious concerns’ after Donald Trump suspended all US funding to the World Health Organization for what he called ‘its role in severely mismanaging the spread of coronavirus’. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for Beijing’s foreign ministry, said the global battle against the pandemic is at a ‘critical moment’ and that suspending … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump freezes ALL U.S. funding for World Health Organization accusing it of ‘accelerating the pandemic’ by opposing his partial ban on travel from China and ‘putting political correctness above lifesaving’ President Trump announced Tuesday he was freezing all funding to the World Health Organization Trump has been attacking the WHO since last … Read more
Some Football League players have been taking part in SECRET training sessions to keep fitness levels up during coronavirus shutdown as furloughed stars risk losing government funding Footballers who have been furloughed have been completing secret sessions Under Government’s scheme furloughed staff must not work for their employers Certain clubs have communicated loose training schedules … Read more
More than 40 coronavirus testing sites are in danger of closing after the Trump administration says it federal funding for them on Friday On Friday, the federal government is ending funding for coronavirus testing sites across the US More than 40 of these sites in state such as Colorado and Pennsylvania are either in danger … Read more
‘Now is not the time’: World Health Organisation hits back at Trump after he threatened to withdraw $513m in funding over the botched response to coronavirus pandemic President Trump criticized World Health Organization and threatened funding He branded the UN agency ‘China centric’, saying the WHO had ‘called it wrong’ WHO has came under fire … Read more