RCMP officer Cedric Landry releases a dog to a man at the checkpoint onto Portapique Beach Road after Gabriel Wortman, a suspected shooter, was taken into custody in Portapique, Nova Scotia, Canada April 19, 20
New York, April 20 (IANS) The number of COVID-19 deaths in the US topped 40,000 by Sunday noon, reaching 40,585, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
New York, April 20 (IANS) New York state, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, will begin a large-scale antibody testing in the following week as an initial step to decide when and how it could
Geneva, April 20 (IANS) World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that lifting lockdown restrictions for COVID-19 is not the end of the epidemic, it's just the b
Rome, April 20 (IANS) Italy's overall fight to contain the spread of the coronavirus continued to show results, with the number of deaths, intensive-care cases, and new infections all trending downward, based o
Wuhan, April 20 (IANS) No new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported in central China's Hubei Province Sunday, the local health authority said on Monday.
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Doug Hassebroek picks up balloons for the birthday celebration of his son Felix during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brooklyn, New York, US on April 18. (REUTERS Photo)
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Vehicles spray disinfectant while sanitizing a road to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia on April 18, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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LONDON, April 19 (Reuters): Iraqi authorities on Sunday lifted a suspension of Reuters' licence to work in the country.
The news agency's licence was suspended earlier this month over a report
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico on March 17, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his son Nikolai light candles during the Orthodox Easter service at a cathedral in the village of Malye Lyady near Minsk, Belarus on April 19. (REUTERS Photo)
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Pope Francis leads Mass and the Regina Coeli prayer in Rome's Santo Spirito in Sassia church without public participation due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Rome, Italy on April 1
People enjoy the view while practicing social distancing during the global spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a cafe near a cherry blossom trees street Seokchon Lake park, in Seoul, South Korea on
Belgian doctor Antoine Sassine, urologist at Chirec Delta Hospital, who survived the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease after 6 weeks in the intensive care unit and 3.5 weeks in a coma is helped by his wife Alexand
An anti government protester waves a flag during a rally at Edinburgh Place in Hong Kong, China on December 29, 2019. (REUTERS File Photo)
HONG KONG, April 19 (Reuters): Suppressing Hong
London, April 19 (IANS) The world's Orthodox Christians on Sunday celebrated Easter, the most important festival in their calendar, amid a series of restrictions and lockdowns imposed in the wake of the coronav
London, April 19 (IANS) French Nobel prize winning scientist Luc Montagnier has sparked a fresh controversy by claiming that the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from a lab, and is the result of an attempt to manufacture
United Nations, April 19 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged that all human beings should unite as one to combat the common enemy of coronavirus and rebuild a fairer world.
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New York, April 19 (IANS) New York reported 540 more coronavirus deaths overnight, a reduction of 25 per cent from the previous day, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, but the state still remained the epicentre of the
People shop in a covered market in downtown Rome Friday, April 17, 2020. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
Rome, April 19 (IANS) The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 23,000 lives in locked-dow