Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Tokyo, Japan on May 14, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
TOKYO,
A woman poses under a Plex'Eat prototype plexiglas bubble by designer Christophe Gernigon which surrounds diners to protect them from the novel coronavirus during a presentation in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, ne
Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn talks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut, Lebanon on January 14, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters): Japan said on Thursday it was w
Employees wear protective face masks, at a testing center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran, Iran on May 20, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters): Around 10,000
Geneva, May 21 (IANS) Highlighting its continuing peril around the world even as its spread slows in some areas of Asia and Europe and lockdown restrictions are eased, coronavirus has infected 106,000 people in
Washington, May 21 (IANS) The total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to nearly 5 million, while the death toll has surged past 328,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Washington, May 21 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that he will finish his preventive hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) regimen "in a day or two".
"I think the regimen finishes in a day or tw
Workers wearing face masks sit inside a bus ticket counter, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 20, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
Women gesture during a demonstration in support of women and against gender violence in front of the Palace of the Argentine National Congress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 9, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
The headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) are pictured during the World Health Assembly (WHA) following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Geneva, Switzerland on May 18, 20
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with restaurant executives and industry leaders during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US May 18,
An employee wearing a protective face mask is seen with a customer at a Smyths in Wigan, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Wigan, Britain on May 18. (REUTERS Photo)
Tomoya Obokata gives a lecture on international law on human trafficking at Keele University in northern England on March 25 , 2013. (Thomson Reuters Foundation File Photo)
LONDON, May 19 (Tho
Former leader of the banned Future Forward Party Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bangkok, Thailand on May 19. (REUTERS Photo)
BANGKOK, May 19 (Reuters)
YANGON, May 19 (Reuters) - Myanmar authorities said on Tuesday said they have found eight coronavirus cases among scores of people who returned from Malaysia, where the authorities have recently been detaining
Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Motsoahae Thabane arrives to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, US on September 28, 2018. (REUTERS File Ph
An hybrid flag depicting the EU and the British flags is seen during a debate on the last EU summit and Brexit at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France on October 22, 2019. (REUTERS File Photo)
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Wellington, May 19 (IANS): The popularity of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has soared in the country following her management of the COVID-19 crisis, with months t
Canberra, May 19 (IANS): An Australian man who acted on his own to free a whale caught in sea nets said on Tuesday that he was been fined by authorities for performing the rescue.
The trapped whale
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at an assembly line during a tour of Honeywell's facility manufacturing protective face masks for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Phoenix, Arizona, US on Ma