Brussels, October 31 (IANS): The Belgian government has announced that a national lockdown will be imposed on Monday after the country was reported to have the highest Covid-19 infection rate in Europe.
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WILMINGTON, Del./WASHINGTON, October 30 (Reuters): President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will barnstorm across battleground states in the American Midwest where the coronavirus pandemi
ISTANBUL, October 30 (Reuters): Six people were killed in Turkey after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into c
PARIS/NICE, France, October 30 (Reuters): France's interior minister said on Friday more militant attacks on its soil were likely and the country was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology followin
BANGKOK, October 30 (Reuters): Some students sympathetic to Thai protesters boycotted graduation ceremonies led by King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Friday in a show of anger at the monarchy amid growing calls t
BRUSSELS/BERLIN, October 30 (Reuters): The World Health Organization (WHO) should be quickly overhauled, get more powers to handle pandemics and expose its member states' shortfalls in health emergenci
Washington, October 30 (Reuters): A record surge of coronavirus cases in the United States is pushing hospitals to the brink of capacity and killing up to 1,000 people a day, the latest figures show, with much
KABUL/DOHA, OCTOBER 30 (IANS): During a meeting with US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad in Doha, the Taliban sought the release of the remaining prisoners currently lodged
STOCKHOLM, October 30 (Reuters): Climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday she will stop her regular protest outside Sweden's parliament because of the surge in COVID-19 infections, and return to
KUALA LUMPUR, October 30 (Reuters): Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday denied promoting violence by saying that Muslims have a right to "kill millions of French people for the
SINGAPORE, October 30 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of Muslims protested in Bangladesh on Friday after killings by a knife-wielding assailant in a French church prompted a vow from President Emmanuel Macron
WARSAW, October 30 (Reuters): Protesters were planning to converge on Warsaw from across Poland on Friday for what police said would likely be the biggest demonstrations yet against a court ruling th
LONDON, October 30 (Reuters): Britain's "tiered" approach to reining in the coronavirus appears to be working, the foreign minister said on Friday, as EU neighbours France and Germany slapped new
HANOI, October 30 (Reuters): Rescue teams searched for more signs of life on Friday after a series of deadly landslides in central Vietnam unleashed by heavy rains from Typhoon Molave, as yet another power
BANGKOK, October 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): An exodus of workers from big cities and families opting to delay having babies because of the coronavirus may trigger a demographic shift in some countrie
BEIJING, October 30 (Reuters): Days after a 17-year-old girl tested positive for COVID-19 in a remote part of western China last week, health authorities said they had tested over 4.7 million people in the
Paris, October 30 (IANS): Twitter has removed former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's controversial tweet glorifying violence even though France is demanding suspension of his account on the soci
Miami, October 30 (IANS): US First Lady Melania Trump made a rare joint appearance alongside her husband, President Donald Trump at a re-election campaign rally in Florida.
At the rally held in Tampa on Thur
Paris, October 30 (IANS): A Tunisian man who stabbed three people to death inside a church in the French city of Nice, had arrived in Europe on board a migrant boat last month, officials said on Friday.
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CHICAGO, October 30 (Reuters): If all goes well, the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some high-risk Americans in late December or early January, Dr.