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Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 coronavirus deaths

Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 coronavirus deaths

Reuters 2020-06-22 10:12:43

Brazil, the world’s No. 2 coronavirus hot spot after the United States, officially passed 50,000 coronavirus deaths on Sunday, a blow for a country already grappling with more than 1 million cas...

Coronavirus: Global death toll now 464,000

Coronavirus: Global death toll now 464,000

-- 2020-06-21 16:34:31

The confirmed deaths from coronavirus cases reached 463,999 and the infection numbers are 8,768,285, globally, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on Sunday. According t...

Africa’s Covid-19 cases nearly 290,000 as death toll reach 7,693

Africa’s Covid-19 cases nearly 290,000 as death toll reach 7,693

-- 2020-06-21 16:25:29

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases across the African continent reached 286,141 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC i...

Chinese researchers launch phase-2 human test for Covid-19 vaccine

Chinese researchers launch phase-2 human test for Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2020-06-21 16:20:43

Chinese researchers have started a second phase human trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine, the Institute of Medical Biology at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (IMBCAMS) said on Sunday, in effo...

Brazil records nearly 50,000 coronavirus deaths

Brazil records nearly 50,000 coronavirus deaths

Reuters 2020-06-21 16:20:27

Nearly 50,000 people have died from the coronavirus in Brazil, the world No. 2 hotspot, with 1,022 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. A total of 49,976 people have...

China likely lost 40 soldiers in border clash, Indian minister says

China likely lost 40 soldiers in border clash, Indian minister says

Reuters 2020-06-21 13:35:30

China lost at least 40 soldiers in a clash with India at their disputed border this week, a federal government minister of India has said, as the nuclear-armed countries remained locked in confrontati...

NFL Players Association advises against workouts in groups

NFL Players Association advises against workouts in groups

REUTERS 2020-06-21 11:25:11

NFL players should avoid engaging in group workouts as COVID-19 cases are rising again in the United States, the medical director of the sport’s players association said on Saturday. Major Leag...

Three killed after man goes on stabbing spree in British town’s park

Three killed after man goes on stabbing spree in British town’s park

-- 2020-06-21 10:58:26

Three people were killed and another three seriously injured when a man went on a stabbing spree in a park in the southern English town of Reading on Saturday, though police said they were not current...

KSA to resume economic activities from Sunday

KSA to resume economic activities from Sunday

Reuters 2020-06-20 21:21:17

Saudi Arabia will end a nationwide curfew and lift restrictions on businesses from Sunday morning after three months of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, state news agency SPA quoted a sourc...

India reports record rise in Covid-19 cases; Delhi cancels medical staff leave

India reports record rise in Covid-19 cases; Delhi cancels medical staff leave

-- 2020-06-20 21:18:56

India reported a record jump in coronavirus infections on Saturday, a day after the government in the capital New Delhi ordered hospitals to cancel any leave and have workers return to duty immediatel...

'Every action counts', UNHCR states for World Refugee Day

'Every action counts', UNHCR states for World Refugee Day

-- 2020-06-20 17:36:49

The United Nations’ refugee agency is marking this year’s World Refugee Day with the message that “every action counts”, as it faces the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic and...

Beijing conducts COVID-19 screening on nearly 2.3 million people

Beijing conducts COVID-19 screening on nearly 2.3 million people

Xinhua 2020-06-20 17:11:46

Beijing city had conducted nucleic acid tests on nearly 2.3 million people as of 6 a.m. Saturday in its efforts to contain the resurgence of domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases, local authorities...

Protesters douse French health ministry with red paint

Protesters douse French health ministry with red paint

-- 2020-06-20 15:31:50

French protesters on Saturday doused the country’s health ministry with red paint, to symbolise the blood of those who died from Covid-19 and to demonstrate against poor working conditions for p...

Beijing tests food, parcel couriers for coronavirus as city checks widen

Beijing tests food, parcel couriers for coronavirus as city checks widen

-- 2020-06-20 13:46:59

Officials in Beijing are carrying out nucleic acid tests on all food and parcel delivery personnel as they ramp up efforts to rein in an outbreak of the coronavirus in the Chinese capital, state-backe...

South Asians in UK more likely to die of Covid-19: Study

South Asians in UK more likely to die of Covid-19: Study

REUTERS 2020-06-20 12:50:24

Hospitalised Covid-19 patients of South Asian ethnicity in Britain are 20 per cent more likely to die from the disease than white people, a large-scale study said on Friday, the latest evidence that m...

India's Chennai goes into lockdown

India's Chennai goes into lockdown

-- 2020-06-20 12:42:15

Authorities in India's southern Tamil Nadu state imposed a fresh lockdown in the state capital of Chennai and its suburbs on Friday in wake of an increase in corronavirus Covid-19) cases. The lockdow...

Brazil passes 1 million coronavirus cases with no end in sight

Brazil passes 1 million coronavirus cases with no end in sight

-- 2020-06-20 11:26:22

Brazil passed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday and approached 50,000 deaths, a new nadir for the world’s second worst-hit country as it struggles with a tense political climate and worsenin...

There was no border intrusion: Modi

There was no border intrusion: Modi

-- 2020-06-20 10:45:40

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared to downplay a clash with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan region that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and more than 70 injured, saying on Friday there h...

India, Pakistan troops exchange fire on Kashmir LoC

India, Pakistan troops exchange fire on Kashmir LoC

-- 2020-06-19 16:34:22

Troops of India and Pakistan Friday exchanged heavy fire and targeted each other's positions on the Line of Control (LoC), dividing Kashmir, officials said. The two sides exchanged fire on LoC in Now...

With eye on UN arms embargo, Britain, France, Germany to discuss Iran

With eye on UN arms embargo, Britain, France, Germany to discuss Iran

REUTERS 2020-06-19 16:00:37

Britain, France and Germany will on Friday define their Iran strategy for the coming months amid talks at the United Nations and violations by Tehran of a 2015 nuclear deal, France’s foreign min...

New Zealand police officer shot dead during routine traffic stop

New Zealand police officer shot dead during routine traffic stop

-- 2020-06-19 12:34:28

A New Zealand police officer was killed and another seriously injured on Friday after they were shot during a routine traffic stop, the country’s police commissioner said, as officials urgently...

Trump unfit to be president, Pelosi and Bolton agree

Trump unfit to be president, Pelosi and Bolton agree

Reuters 2020-06-19 11:47:27

President Donald Trump came under attack from both sides of the American political spectrum on Thursday as liberal Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and former White House aide and conservative hawk John...

Namibia finds winning formula for HIV despite COVID-19

Namibia finds winning formula for HIV despite COVID-19

-- 2020-06-18 17:49:56

Namibia's health system has drastically reduced the risk of about 200,000 people living with HIV and Aids from contracting coronavirus through the distribution of antiretroviral drugs for consumption...

Trump finds himself at odds with most Americans' opinions

Trump finds himself at odds with most Americans' opinions

-- 2020-06-18 17:36:38

The temporary fences that separated protesters from the White House have come down. But its occupant, President Donald Trump, appears to be more isolated than ever, reports Reuters. Recent opinion su...

Elite French police make arrests after Dijon gang violence

Elite French police make arrests after Dijon gang violence

-- 2020-06-18 14:47:35

France’s elite ‘RAID’ police unit has arrested several members of the Chechen community after four nights of gang violence in the city of Dijon, a police source said. Trouble first...

New virus cases in New Zealand rattle public confidence

New virus cases in New Zealand rattle public confidence

Reuters 2020-06-18 13:32:14

New Zealand recorded on Thursday its third new case of the coronavirus this week as quarantine breaches and other failures undermined public confidence days after it declared itself among the first co...

Trump says US will not lock down again

Trump says US will not lock down again

Reuters 2020-06-18 11:57:34

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would not close businesses again as several states reported rising numbers of new coronavirus infections. “We won’t be closing t...

South Korea’s nuclear envoy visits US as tensions flare with North Korea

South Korea’s nuclear envoy visits US as tensions flare with North Korea

-- 2020-06-18 11:38:55

South Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator will hold talks with officials in Washington on Thursday amid flaring tensions with North Korea after Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison office and...

Chinese mainland reports 28 new confirmed virus cases

Chinese mainland reports 28 new confirmed virus cases

Xinhua 2020-06-18 11:03:39

Chinese health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 28 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, of which 24 were domestically transmitted and four were imported....

Trump asked China to help him win in 2020: Bolton

Trump asked China to help him win in 2020: Bolton

REUTERS 2020-06-18 11:03:22

In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese Presid...