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Total coronavirus cases in Brazil top 0.1 million

Total coronavirus cases in Brazil top 0.1 million

Reuters 2020-05-04 11:48:06

There have been 4,588 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Brazil and 275 deaths over the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday, bringing total confirmed cases in the country to over 0.1...

In city of India’s Taj Mahal, coronavirus resurgence carries warning signs

In city of India’s Taj Mahal, coronavirus resurgence carries warning signs

-- 2020-05-04 10:47:40

On Feb 25, a day after US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania posed for pictures outside the Taj Mahal on an official visit to India, Sumit Kapoor returned to his nearby home from a trip to It...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 3.5 million, although rate slowing

Global coronavirus cases surpass 3.5 million, although rate slowing

REUTERS 2020-05-04 10:38:42

Global coronavirus cases surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with deaths nearing a quarter of a million, although the rate of fatalities and new cases has slowed from peaks reached last month, a Reuters...

Trump says up to 100,000 Americans may die from coronavirus

Trump says up to 100,000 Americans may die from coronavirus

-- 2020-05-04 10:17:56

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he now believes as many as 100,000 Americans could die in the coronavirus pandemic, after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, but said he was confiden...

China sees 85m domestic tourist trips in three days

China sees 85m domestic tourist trips in three days

Xinhua 2020-05-03 19:39:37

China saw nearly 85 million domestic tourist trips in the first three days of its five-day May Day holiday which started May 1, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said Sunday. Tourism revenue totall...

Trump welcomes reemergence of Kim Jong Un

Trump welcomes reemergence of Kim Jong Un

-- 2020-05-03 19:15:20

US President Donald Trump on Saturday welcomed the reemergence of North Korea's Kim Jong Un after weeks of speculation about his health, but prospects for the US efforts to persuade Pyongyang to denuc...

Coronavirus cases in Russia rise by record daily amount, mortality rate slows

Coronavirus cases in Russia rise by record daily amount, mortality rate slows

-- 2020-05-03 15:52:23

Russia on Sunday recorded its highest daily rise in confirmed coronavirus cases with 10,633 new cases, bringing the total to 134,687, with more than half of cases and deaths in Moscow. But the mortal...

Protect media workers: UN chief

Protect media workers: UN chief

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-03 12:51:33

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on governments to protect media workers, and to strengthen and maintain press freedom, which is essential for a future of peace, justice and human righ...

North and South Korea exchange gunfire across border

North and South Korea exchange gunfire across border

REUTERS 2020-05-03 11:06:42

North and South Korea exchanged gunfire around the South’s guard post early on Sunday, raising tension a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended an almost three-week absence from public...

New York's Cuomo warns against 'blindly' reopening states

New York's Cuomo warns against 'blindly' reopening states

REUTERS 2020-05-03 10:26:22

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday pushed back against what he called premature demands that he reopen the state, saying he knew people were struggling without jobs but that more understanding...

Iran's virus death toll crosses over 6,000

Iran's virus death toll crosses over 6,000

Xinhua 2020-05-02 18:07:50

Iranian Health Ministry reported that 65 more people died from the novel coronavirus overnight, pushing the total to 6,156 as of Saturday, according to the state TV. Kianush Jahanpur, head of Public...

Singapore to reopen some businesses on May 12

Singapore to reopen some businesses on May 12

-- 2020-05-02 16:44:22

Singapore will allow selected businesses to reopen on May 12 in a cautious rollback of a two-month partial lockdown despite rising coronavirus infections among foreign workers. The city-state reporte...

Free at last! Spaniards get outside to exercise after 49 days of lockdown

Free at last! Spaniards get outside to exercise after 49 days of lockdown

REUTERS 2020-05-02 16:01:45

Joggers and cyclists across Spain emerged from their homes early on Saturday, with adults allowed out for exercise for the first time in seven weeks, as the government began easing coronavirus restric...

Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread: Police

Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread: Police

-- 2020-05-02 11:36:10

Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, the country’s police chief said late on Friday, after hundreds of migrants an...

Americans begin to surface from isolation as states ease clamp-downs

Americans begin to surface from isolation as states ease clamp-downs

-- 2020-05-02 10:11:50

Americans in about half of US states, led by Texas and Georgia, began emerging on Friday from home confinement while California and New York held fast to business closures and other restrictions impos...

Kim Jong Un appears in public: State media

Kim Jong Un appears in public: State media

-- 2020-05-02 10:10:32

North Korea's state news agency KCNA has said Kim Jong Un attended the completion of a fertiliser plant in a region north of the capital, Pyongyang, in the first report of his public activity since Ap...

Duchess of Sussex loses first round in newspaper lawsuit

Duchess of Sussex loses first round in newspaper lawsuit

AP 2020-05-01 21:08:49

The Duchess of Sussex lost an early round in a London court Friday when a judge dismissed part of her lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper that put out excerpts of a letter to her estr...

India extends lockdown by two weeks

India extends lockdown by two weeks

Reuters 2020-05-01 19:55:39

India said on Friday it would extend its nationwide lockdown for another two weeks after May 4, but would allow "considerable relaxations" in lower-risk districts marked as green and orange zones unde...

Malaysia eases restrictions, reopens most economic activities

Malaysia eases restrictions, reopens most economic activities

Xinhua 2020-05-01 16:51:15

Malaysia will ease restrictions to allow most economic and social activities to restart following the recent decline of the COVID-19 cases in the country, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Frida...

Pakistani parliament's speaker tests positive for COVID-19

Pakistani parliament's speaker tests positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-05-01 16:24:34

The speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly said late on Thursday that he had tested positive for COVID-19, after hosting an iftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan, and meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan an...

Oxford vaccine 'could be ready by end of year'

Oxford vaccine 'could be ready by end of year'

BBC 2020-05-01 12:04:21

A coronavirus vaccine could be available for limited use by the end of the year, AstraZeneca's chief executive Pascal Soriot has said. The pharmaceutical giant has agreed to manufacture and distribut...

Russian PM tests positive for COVID-19

Russian PM tests positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-05-01 11:24:07

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has gone to hospital after he was diagnosed with coronavirus (COVID-19). His positive test came on the same day that Russia recorded a record 7,099 cases, tak...

Australia plots return of sport as spread of coronavirus slows

Australia plots return of sport as spread of coronavirus slows

-- 2020-05-01 11:03:17

The Australian government will meet on Friday to discuss how sport can restart as the number of new coronavirus cases dwindles and states begin to relax restrictions on social gatherings, two sources...

Trump confident that COVID-19 may have originated in Chinese lab

Trump confident that COVID-19 may have originated in Chinese lab

-- 2020-05-01 11:00:50

US President Donald Trump has said that he was confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab, but declined to describe the evidence, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing over...

Half of US states easing virus restrictions as jobless numbers grow

Half of US states easing virus restrictions as jobless numbers grow

REUTERS 2020-05-01 10:47:11

As White House economic reopening guidance expired on Thursday after two weeks in place, half of all US states forged ahead with easing restrictions on restaurants, retail and other businesses in hope...

Saudis return to malls again as the country eases coronavirus closures

Saudis return to malls again as the country eases coronavirus closures

-- 2020-04-30 16:55:07

Saudis began tentatively returning to shopping malls and open-air markets on Wednesday after authorities relaxed restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, reports Reuters. S...

Japan preparing to extend coronavirus emergency for about a month

Japan preparing to extend coronavirus emergency for about a month

-- 2020-04-30 14:34:33

Japan is preparing to extend its state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, originally set to end on May 6, for about a month, government sources told Reuters on Thursday, even as some other count...

Germany classifies Hezbollah as terrorist organisation, conducts raids

Germany classifies Hezbollah as terrorist organisation, conducts raids

-- 2020-04-30 11:58:23

Germany has banned Iran-backed Hezbollah activity on its soil and designated it a terrorist organisation, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Police conducted early morning raids in Germany to de...

Trump says China wants him to lose his bid for re-election

Trump says China wants him to lose his bid for re-election

REUTERS 2020-04-30 11:03:16

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in...

Construction site fire claims 25 lives in South Korea

Construction site fire claims 25 lives in South Korea

Reuters 2020-04-29 16:55:19

A fire at a construction site in South Korea killed at least 25 people and injured another seven on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported, citing fire authorities. All of the victims were constructi...