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Global coronavirus cases rise to more than 11 million

Global coronavirus cases rise to more than 11 million

REUTERS 2020-07-04 10:36:35

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven mo...

Train-van collision leaves 19 dead in Pakistan

Train-van collision leaves 19 dead in Pakistan

-- 2020-07-03 20:16:04

At least 19 pilgrims of Pakistan's minority Sikh community were killed when a train collided with a passenger van in eastern Pakistan on Friday, officials said. According to police, the deceased were...

Jean Castex named France’s new Prime Minister

Jean Castex named France’s new Prime Minister

-- 2020-07-03 17:58:59

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Jean Castex as the country's new prime minister. Castex, who coordinated France's virus reopening strategy, will replace Edouard Philippe, who resigne...

Russian COVID-19 cases rise to 667,883

Russian COVID-19 cases rise to 667,883

Xinhua 2020-07-03 16:39:21

Russia recorded 6,718 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 667,883, the country's coronavirus response center said in a statement Friday. The death toll rose by 176 to 9,859,...

Coronavirus mortality in Italy is highest among poor, study shows

Coronavirus mortality in Italy is highest among poor, study shows

Reuters 2020-07-03 16:15:50

Poor Italians are significantly more likely to die of the coronavirus than higher-income groups, the country’s first significant study into the disease’s disproportionate social impact sho...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe resigns

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe resigns

Reuters 2020-07-03 14:57:05

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe resigned on Friday ahead of a government reshuffle by President Emmanuel Macron designed to bolster his green credentials and win back disillusioned voters ahead...

Kim claims ‘shining success’ against coronavirus in North Korea

Kim claims ‘shining success’ against coronavirus in North Korea

-- 2020-07-03 14:32:59

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hailed his country's "shining success" in dealing with Covid-19, according to state news agency KCNA. Speaking at a politburo meeting, Mr Kim said the country had...

Modi visits Himalayan border where troops clashed with China

Modi visits Himalayan border where troops clashed with China

REUTERS 2020-07-03 11:59:33

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew into the northern Himalayan region of Ladakh on Friday, officials said, weeks after Indian and Chinese troops clashed on their disputed border there, escalatin...

Death toll rises to 162 in Myanmar jade mine collapse

Death toll rises to 162 in Myanmar jade mine collapse

REUTERS 2020-07-03 09:40:22

The death toll in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has risen to at least 162, with more feared dead, authorities said. A heap of mining waste collapsed into a lake on Thursday and burie...

US virus cases hit new global record, rising over 55,000 in single day

US virus cases hit new global record, rising over 55,000 in single day

Reuters 2020-07-03 09:38:47

The United States reported more than 55,000 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the largest daily increase any country has ever reported, according to a Reuters tally. A surge in coronavirus cases across...

Brazil military distribute masks to save isolated Amazon tribes

Brazil military distribute masks to save isolated Amazon tribes

-- 2020-07-02 16:26:46

Soldiers handed out masks to barefooted Yanomami indigenous people including body-painted warriors carrying spears and bows and arrows on Wednesday on the second day of a military operation to protect...

End of lockdown fails to boost jobs market in Spain

End of lockdown fails to boost jobs market in Spain

REUTERS 2020-07-02 15:38:41

The end of the coronavirus lockdown in Spain failed to bring a surge in employment as government data showed that the 900,000 jobs lost at the pandemic’s peak had not been regained, while the to...

Explosion at Astron Energy’s South African refinery kills at least two

Explosion at Astron Energy’s South African refinery kills at least two

Reuters 2020-07-02 15:08:07

An explosion on Thursday at Astron Energy’s South African refinery in Cape Town has killed at least two people and injured several others, a source who works at the 100,000 barrel per day plant...

Death toll in Myanmar landslide surges past 100

Death toll in Myanmar landslide surges past 100

Reuters 2020-07-02 12:39:16

A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed at least 100 people, with more feared dead, authorities said on Thursday, after a pile of mine waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a wave of m...

Gunmen attack Mexican drug rehab centre killing 24

Gunmen attack Mexican drug rehab centre killing 24

-- 2020-07-02 11:19:01

Gunmen killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation facility in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, police said on Wednesday, underlining the government’s challenge in fulfilling its pledge to st...

India's tally of coronavirus infections crosses 600,000

India's tally of coronavirus infections crosses 600,000

REUTERS 2020-07-02 11:08:32

India’s coronavirus infections surpassed 600,000 on Thursday, with 17,834 deaths, as authorities battled to contain the pandemic while easing lockdown rules, officials and the health ministry sa...

Japanese capital sees more than 100 more coronavirus cases

Japanese capital sees more than 100 more coronavirus cases

-- 2020-07-02 11:07:14

Tokyo confirmed more than 100 more novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, public broadcaster NHK said, the highest daily tally in two months in the city at the centre of Japan’s outbreak. Th...

Oxford coronavirus vaccine developers encouraged by immune response

Oxford coronavirus vaccine developers encouraged by immune response

-- 2020-07-01 23:42:01

A leading scientist behind the University of Oxford's potential COVID-19 vaccine said on Wednesday the team has seen the right sort of immune response in trials but declined to give a firm timeframe f...

COVID-19 cases may go up to 100,000 per day in US

COVID-19 cases may go up to 100,000 per day in US

Xinhua 2020-07-01 16:52:20

The United States is "not in total control" of the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 cases in the country go up to 100,000 per day if the current trend "does not turn around," Anthony Fauci, the US go...

Australia to lock down 300,000 in Melbourne suburbs

Australia to lock down 300,000 in Melbourne suburbs

Reuters 2020-07-01 13:38:53

Authorities will lock down around 300,000 people in suburbs north of Melbourne for a month from late on Wednesday to contain the risk of infection after two weeks of double-digit rises in new coronavi...

Blast at Tehran clinic kills 19

Blast at Tehran clinic kills 19

Reuters 2020-07-01 12:21:54

Nineteen people were killed and six injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, the official IRIB news agency reported, quoting state officials....

First coronavirus cases found in sprawling migrant camp at US border

First coronavirus cases found in sprawling migrant camp at US border

-- 2020-07-01 11:50:17

Three asylum seekers have tested positive for coronavirus in a sprawling encampment steps from the US border in Matamoros, Mexico, marking the first cases in a settlement that advocates have long view...

US virus cases rise by 47,000, biggest one-day spike of pandemic

US virus cases rise by 47,000, biggest one-day spike of pandemic

Reuters 2020-07-01 11:37:58

New US Covid-19 cases rose by more than 47,000 on Tuesday (local time) according to a Reuters tally, the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic, as the government’s top infectious...

EU to list which citizens can enter; US likely to miss out

EU to list which citizens can enter; US likely to miss out

AP 2020-06-30 18:42:03

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday is announcing a list of nations whose citizens will be allowed to enter 31 European countries, but most Americans are likely to be refused entry for at least another...

Myanmar announces constituencies for general election

Myanmar announces constituencies for general election

-- 2020-06-30 15:38:08

Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) has announced the constituencies for the 2020 general election. According to the announcement late Monday, there are 330 constituencies for the House of Repr...

China reports 19 new Covid-19 cases, including seven in Beijing

China reports 19 new Covid-19 cases, including seven in Beijing

Reuters 2020-06-30 13:41:08

China on Tuesday reported 19 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for June 29, up from 12 a day earlier, the health authority said. There were no new deaths. Of the new infections, seven were in Bei...

China passes Hong Kong security law amid global opposition

China passes Hong Kong security law amid global opposition

REUTERS 2020-06-30 10:28:43

China’s parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony’s way of life since it returne...

China approves COVID-19 vaccine candidate for military use

China approves COVID-19 vaccine candidate for military use

-- 2020-06-29 21:15:56

China's military has received the greenlight to use a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by its research unit and CanSino Biologics after clinical trials proved it was safe and showed some efficacy,...

Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top general

Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top general

-- 2020-06-29 21:00:35

Iran has issued an arrest warrant against US President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday that I...

Russia reports lowest number of coronavirus infections since April 29

Russia reports lowest number of coronavirus infections since April 29

-- 2020-06-29 14:51:48

Russia on Monday reported 6,719 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the lowest one-day reported increase since April 29, pushing its nationwide tally to 641,156. The national coronavirus taskforce sa...