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Engineer tried to crash train into USNS Mercy in Los Angeles

Eduardo Moreno said he doesn't believe "the ship is what they say it's for ", according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Moreno acknowledged in...

Hungary's Parliament grants PM Viktor Orban ability to rule by decree

Opposition parties have criticised the move as unnecessary, fearing it would give a blank cheque to government rule. Hungary declared a state of emergency o...

DOJ watchdog finds flaws in FISA process beyond Carter Page application

The Woods Procedures, Horowitz explained, were implemented "in 2001 following errors in numerous FISA applications submitted to the FISC in FBI counterterrorism...

"Shoot them dead", says Philippine President To Those Who Violate Lockdown Orders

Troublemakers will starve in jails, he warned. "I will not hesitate to order the police to arrest and detain you", said Duterte in his address, adding: "Inste...

Europe COVID-19 death toll tops 30,000

With more than 40,000 killed by the disease barrelling around the globe, the United States , already home to the largest number of confirmed infections, hit a ...

Court commutes Daniel Pearl murderer’s death sentence to seven-year imprisonment

At least four people were convicted in connection with Pearl's murder, including Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh who was sentenced to death in 2002 for masterminding th...

Democratic National Convention postponed until August due to coronavirus pandemic

The Republican nominating convention is scheduled to begin 24 August, and Donald Trump has dismissed questions about whether it should be postponed or made ...

United States virus deaths pass 4,000: Johns Hopkins University

According to the Johns Hopkins report, 941,949 COVID-19 infections have been reported worldwide, 47,522 have died, and 195,929 have recovered, including 8,672 i...

Teddy bear scavenger hunt for kids during the pandemic

Starting April 2, The Wanderer is asking its readers to take pictures of the bears they find and share those pictures with the Tri-Town community. She started...

New confirmed cases bring Saskatchewan total of COVID-19 patients to 156

The province says there may be more cases yet to be reported to Public Health. Four of the people who have recovered reside in the northern part of the provin...

Global virus cases near a million as Spain sees record deaths

Today's daily death rate is 950 which sees the cumulative total top the 10,000 threshold and is an increase from Wednesday's total of 864 deaths and is a new da...

Iranian prisoners riot, smash cameras as country's coronavirus death toll rises

The website of the newspaper Matichon said the unrest was related to fear of a COVID-19 outbreak in the prison. The prisoners set the sleeping quarters, cante...

White House predicts 200,000 Americans could die from COVID19 outbreak

Even though the USA has better healthcare facilities and infrastructure compared to so-called third world countries, the experts have claimed that they are expe...

China Releases Data on Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases

Hubei has so far reported 67,802 confirmed COVID-19 cases in total, including 50,007 in Wuhan , state-run Xinhua news agency reported. They examined the m...

European Union suggests cutting workers hours instead of their jobs

In many other European countries, the suspension of previously guaranteed personal freedoms, including the right to demonstrate, gather and circulate freely, ha...

WHO praises PM Modis initiatives to fight COVID-19

As of Wednesday, the pandemic has killed 40,777 people worldwide, as a total of 827,419 infections were reported by over 200 countries and regions, the World He...

Pakistani court overturns Briton's death sentence for Daniel Pearl murder

It was expected that the seven-year sentence will be counted as time served, said Naveed. Pakistan has overturned the death sentence of the man convicted ...

North Korea threatens to cut off nuclear talks after Pompeo's comments

The joint statement again urged North Korea "to engage in good faith in meaningful negotiations with the United States aimed at denuclearization, to take conc...

The WHO reverses course on video gaming

It's considerably ironic that the WHO is now selling gaming as a pastime because it is, without doubt, one of the organizations which have pushed for the reco...

Douglas County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 so far

This makes 9 positive cases among Cherokee County residents, plus two more cases involving non-residents. There was no additional information provided in the We...

Week-old newborn from CT dies after contracting coronavirus

A letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March said the 10-month-old died four weeks after being hospitalized with a bowel blockage and orga...

China Reveals It Has 1500 Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases on Record

According to Bloomberg , which cited three unnamed "U.S. officials", the report to the White House last week concluded that China "concealed the extent of t...

Ron DeSantis Announces Stay-at-Home Order for Florida Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Health officials have projected that hundreds of thousands of Americans may die from COVID 19, and on Wednesday, DeSantis told reporters he would sign an exec...

US Death Toll Due to Coronavirus Passes China

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a chilling warning, said in an interview on CNN that the USA "will ce...

USA calls for power-sharing transition in Venezuela

The Colombian government does not recognize Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate President of Venezuela. And while the framework says that any Venezuela citizen c...

Iran advises US to avoid adventurous moves in Iraq

Iran warned the U.S. on Wednesday that it was leading the Middle East to disaster amid the coronavirus pandemic after it "deployed Patriot air defense missil...

Google will skip April Fool’s Day pranks this year

India are another country prepared to crack down on anyone attempting an April Fools' joke , the state of Maharashtra saying they're prepared to take legal act...

Rate of France coronavirus deaths accelerates for third day

The French death toll includes only those who died in hospital and not those who died at home or in old people's homes. France also recorded its largest singl...

NYPD Detective Becomes The First Officer To Die From Coronavirus

The third member of the NYPD died on Saturday as a result of the coronavirus, the Advance/SiLive.com reported . On Friday, NYPD said Giacomina Barr-Brown, a...

Russian aircraft with medical equipment heads for US: Defence Ministry

A Russian military transport plane took off from an airfield outside Moscow on Wednesday and headed for the United States with a load of medical equipment and...

Syria air defences down Israeli missiles over Homs: state media

Prior to the attack, Lebanon's Sham FM reported that Israeli jets were spotted flying low above the country's Kesrouan province, which lies on the way between t...

Facebook and Instagram remove Bolsonaro's video for violating rules

However Bolsonaro workplace's social media marketing campaign "Brazil can't cease" was banned on Saturday by a federal decide and ran right into a barrage of cr...

Malaysia sorry after coronavirus tips for women spark anger

In a series of Facebook posts , the Malaysian women's ministry offered tips for how wives should behave during the lockdown. The ministry also said they were...

Spanish coronavirus death toll rises by 812 in 24 hours

Spain, which has the world's second-highest coronavirus death toll after Italy, declared a state of emergency over the pandemic on March 14, barring people fr...

Calgarians feel the rumble of an natural disaster 1,000 kilometres away

An exceptionally strong natural disaster hit Idaho this afternoon, according to the US Geological Survey. The natural disaster struck well west of Yellowstone N...