BOA VISTA, July 2 (Reuters) - Soldiers handed out masks to barefooted Yanomami indigenous people including body-painted warriors carrying spears and bows and arrows on Wednesday on the second day of a military
Washington, July 2 (IANS) US President Donald Trump, who has long resisted wearing a mask in public, has said he likes face coverings and they make him look like the Lone Ranger, the media reported on Thursday.
Washington, July 2 (IANS) The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has increased to over 10.6 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 515,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Geneva, July 2 (IANS) A World Health Organization (WHO) expert said that the recently publicized swine flu in China was not new and that it's under close surveillance.
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New Delhi, July 2 (PTI): White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that according to President Donald Trump the aggressive stance of Beijing against India and other countries in the region confirms the
GENEVA, July 1 (Reuters): Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the still-raging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
FRANKFURT, July 1 (Reuters): A COVID-19 vaccine developed by German biotech firm BioNTech and U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has shown potential and was found to be well tolerated in early-stage human tr
GENEVA, July 1 (Reuters): Global tourism revenues are expected to fall by up to $3.3 trillion due to COVID-19 restrictions, with the United States standing to lose the most, according to a U.N. study publi
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 (Reuters): Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook on Wednesday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to st
ISTANBUL, July 1 (Reuters): A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a step his fiancee hopes will shed more light o
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the new security law imposed on Hong Kong by China was an affront to all nations and Washington would continue to impleme
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters): A U.S. federal judge late Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump's hardline rule that curtailed asylum applications by migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a legal setb
LONDON, July 1 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump has made it harder to get a unified international response to China's actions in Hong Kong, the last British governor of the territory said on Wedn
KINGSTON, July 1 (Reuters): Jamaica has suspended the use of a badge representing one of the highest British royal honors after anti-racism protesters decried its imagery of a white angel standing on the h
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Myanmar state media on Wednesday announced Nov. 8 as the date for a parliamentary election set to serve as a test of the country’s first democratic government in half a century.
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MOSCOW, July 1 (Reuters): Russians appeared to have paved the way for Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for a package of constitutional changes which will also boost pensi
NAIROBI, July 1 (Reuters) - Burundi's new president, Evariste Ndayishimiye, has promised steps to combat the spread of COVID-19, a shift from the stance of his late predecessor who dismissed the danger pose
BERLIN, July 1 (Reuters): The European Union and Britain have made "very limited" progress in negotiations about their future relationship, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, addi
MOSCOW, July 1 (Reuters): Russian President Vladimir Putin told his counterparts from Turkey and Iran on Wednesday that there was a need for peaceful dialogue between the opposing forces in Syria's civ
ABIDJAN, July 1 (Reuters): Child labour has increased in top grower Ivory Coast's cocoa sector during its coronavirus lockdown, according to a report released on Wednesday by an industry-backed foundat