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Will defend our Afghan partners if attacked: USA military in Afghanistan

The Taliban said these limits on their attacks had not been specifically laid out in the agreement with the US signed in February. The Taliban argued that t...

9 deaths and 1,505 coronavirus cases in South Africa

The COVID-19 positive cases include patients, health workers and other staff members, Mkhize said and expressed condolences to the families and loved ones of th...

S.Korea's total COVID-19 cases surpass 10200

South Korea confirmed 94 new infection cases on Friday, taking the total to 10,156. South Korea recorded fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases on Monday, mar...

Forest fire near Chernobyl boosts radiation level

Vladimirovka sits within the deserted 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone, which was evacuated after the devastating 1986 blast at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plan...

Larry David Says Bernie Sanders Should Drop Out of Presidential Race

When it comes to the daytime talk showThe View , the circle of ladies is known for brazenly speaking their minds; but after senior host, Whoopi Goldberg , in...

France Knife Attack Leaves Multiple People Dead, At Least 4 Wounded

At the moment of his arrest, the man was kneeling and praying in Arabic, according to reports in French media. The assailant, understood to be a refugee from Su...

Ecuador VP apologizes after virus corpses left on streets

It's unclear how numerous deceased are dying because of COVID-19. Mortuary workers in masks and protective clothing were seen carrying plastic-wrapped coffin...

Vanuatu already feeling force of Cyclone Harold

Cyclone Harold is now heading towards Vanuatu. The weather forecaster said with the current track, TC Harold is expected to track to the southwest of the Fiji...

Air India flight wins rare praise from Pakistan ATC

With commercial aviation severely curtailed, the government last week offered up to £75 million to enable special charter flights to priority countries to bring...

Spain's coronavirus death toll rises by 674 but pace keeps slowing

Flare-ups of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, were in evidence elsewhere in the country - in New Jersey, across the river from Manhattan, ...

Boris Johnson Admitted To Hospital

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "still very much in charge of the government" despite spending the night in hospital with coronavirus, Housing Secretary Rober...

Boris Johnson's pregnant fiancé 'feeling stronger' after Covid-19 scare

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital Sunday after testing positive for the novel coronavirus last week, with the symptoms failing to...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urges govts to protect women during coronavirus lockdown

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that warring parties in 11 countries have responded positively to his appeal for a global cease-fire to ta...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Hospitalized After Failing To Shake Coronavirus

Johnson has continued to chair daily meetings on Britain's response to the outbreak, and has released several video messages during his 10 days in isolation....

Boris Johnson is hospitalised due to coronavirus

As pregnant women are said to be vulnerable to the coronavirus Downing Street confirmed previously was staying away from Johnson whle he was showing symptoms....

Surgeon general warns USA of `saddest week' and `9/11 moment'

Anthony Fauci , the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it will be a "bad week as there is an escalation of cases", desp...

Biden says Democrats may have to hold 'virtual convention' due to coronavirus

The Democrats already announced last week that they are pushing back their convention from a July 13 start date to August 17 because of fears that the country...

Tokyo sees record increase in daily cases

Japan's confirmed cases exceeded 3,000 over the weekend - excluding those related to the Diamond Princess cruise ship - a jump from less than 500 a month ago. T...

Italy records lowest virus death toll in over two weeks

In Lombardy, the epicentre of the outbreak, the daily death toll was slightly lower than the day before, coming in at 351 against 367 on Thursday, but new infec...

Covid-19: India mulls Trump's request to lift ban on hydroxychloroquine export

Despite Fauci's warning, some believe the anti-malaria drug may excel the speed of recovery for those infected with the coronavirus. "What do you have to lose?"...

Police in Australia launch criminal probe into coronavirus-stricken ship

The Ruby Princess cruise ship, carrying more than 1000 crew, docks at Port Kembla with an unknown number infected with coronavirus . The Ruby Princess' hospi...

German authorities accuse US of 'piracy' by seizing face masks

In a statement Berlin's state minister of the interior, Andreas Geisel, said 200,000 highly sought-after FFP2 masks, made by an American firm in China and des...

Emergency Response Benefit accepting applications starting Monday

He said he would tell the president both countries were interlinked in ways that would hurt the two nations if supply chains were cut. Canadian health care wo...

Donald Trump recommends Americans wear face masks in public

However, Trump said he will not follow that guidance. Trudeau plans to use these examples to ensure the American president understands the inter-connectedness...

Second positive COVID-19 case found in Asia's largest slum

The deceased lost his life at Sion Hospital and had symptoms like fever, cough and respiratory issues. His family members & 23 colleagues were asked to quaranti...

A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which manages the zoo, identified the tiger as Nadia, a 4-year-old Malayan tiger . Only one of the cats was test...

Top Health Official Busted for Not Following Her Own Advice

Whatever her reasons for doing so, it was wrong and she knows that. The First Minister paid tribute to Dr Calderwood, saying she was a "transformational" chie...

British PM Boris Johnson's pregnant fiancée contracts coronavirus

A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "On the advice of his doctor, the prime minister has tonight been admitted to hospital for tests ". British Prime Minist...

Boris Johnson's pregnant fiancee is recovering from coronavirus symptoms

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds leave the Commonwealth Day Service 2020 at Westminster Abbey on March 9, 2020 in London, Engl...

Virus-hit U.S. girds for 'Pearl Harbor moment' as death toll spikes

The US trails behind Italy and Spain - both of which grappled with earlier outbreaks - for the highest number of cumulative deaths, according to the tally. "Thi...

WHO nudges world to aid COVID-19-plagued developing countries

WHO's COVID-19 technical lead Dr Maria Van Kerkhove said there were still many unknowns about why young people were dying. According to Coronavirus COVID-19 G...

Sir Keir Starmer elected leader of UK Labour Party

It looks as if Sir Keir has chose to appeal to the same group of voters as Corbyn, and that will make it very hard to win back working-class voters. Meanwhile...

Trump Orders 3M to Make More Masks

At a White House briefing on the CCP virus pandemic earlier on Thursday, Trump announced he had signed a DPA order for 3M to produce face masks . "We're anti...

Trump defends firing Inspector General Michael Atkinson

Trump withdrew Mr. Ratcliffe's name from consideration shortly after he was nominated, but then re-nominated him again in February. He did not elaborate, exc...

Why Air India evacuating foreign nationals, asks Congress

The Captain thanked him for this response from Pakistan. "Earlier, Air India had ferried Israeli nationals to Tel Aviv as well in a chartered flight", it adde...