United Nations, May 6 (IANS) An estimated 19 million children, more than ever before, were living in displacement within their own countries due to conflict and violence in 2019 -- some of them for years, accor
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Washington, May 6 (IANS) The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 1,201,337 as of 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (C
Washington, May 6 (IANS) Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
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Washington, May 5 (IANS): A woman in the US state of Michigan has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a
Jerusalem, May 5 (IANS): Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) has developed an antibody which can neutralise the virus responsible for COVID-19 within the bodies of those infected, the country's Defe
Victor Guzman and Melba Jimenez, a couple with 37 adopted children, take time to read the Bible and pray as they undergo self-quarantine together in their home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney speaks to media in a count centre, during Ireland's national election, in Cork, Ireland on February 9, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
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Singaporean man rescued in Fiji after 2 months at sea. (IANS Photo)
SUVA, MAY 5 (IANS): A Singaporean man was rescued in Fiji after being stranded at sea for two months in his yacht when he wa
Silhouette of mobile device user is seen next to a screen projection of binary code are seen in this picture illustration taken on March 28, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs on travel to Phoenix, Arizona from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, US on May 5. (REUTERS Photo)
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A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland on January 30, 2020.
Traffic moves along roads in Ahmedabad on March 21, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
SYDNEY, May 5 (Reuters): Coronavirus cases in Asia rose to a quarter of a million on Tuesday, according to a Reut
A pro-democracy demonstrator burns a letter next to pictures of missing staff members of a publishing house and a bookstore, including Gui Minhai, a China-born Swedish national who is the owner of Mighty Curren
People and buses are seen on London Bridge at the height of the traditional morning rush hour, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain on May 5. (REUTERS Photo)
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Indigenous Congresswoman Joenia Wapichana looks on after a meeting with the parliamentary front in defense of the rights of indigenous people at the chamber of deputies in Brasilia, Brazil on February 18, 2020.
A woman, wearing a protective face mask, walks past a Ministry of National Defense recruitment poster, amid concerns about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Taipei, Taiwan on April 20, 2020. (REUTERS File
The Long March 5B carrier rocket takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China on May 5. (REUTERS Photo)
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 5 (Reuters): China on Tuesday s
Supporters of ABS-CBN, the country's top broadcast network, hold a rally against the Philippine government's move to scrap its franchises, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on February 10, 2020. (R
GENEVA, May 5 (Reuters): Overcrowded, unhygienic prisons in Latin America and the spread of the new coronavirus both in regional prisons and in the United States are a source of "major concern", the U.N. r
BRUSSELS, May 5 (Reuters) - World leaders and organisations pledged $8 billion to research, manufacture and distribute a possible vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 on Monday, but the United States refused to