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Bachelet says govt action to control spread of misinformation must be proportionate

Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar is the highest ranking official to have tested positive for the virus

Total cases pass 57,000, fatalities over 780, according to official figures

Falcon 9 rocket launches satellites into space

WHO Africa director says coronavirus pandemic will slow down economic growth in Africa

Places of worship, offices and shopping centers will be allowed to resume operations

50-year-old suspect surnamed Li work as a guard at the school in the town of Wangfu

It was the fourth straight day that the daily caseload had topped 3,000

Uttar Pradesh has seen millions of migrants return home during an extended nationwide coronavirus lockdown

Pandemic has hammered Saudi Arabia’s nascent non-religious tourism industry

Official cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest while Floyd was being restrained by police taking him into custody

Country has recorded 1,048 cases of the coronavirus with 48 deaths

Floyd died after a white policeman pinned his neck under the officer’s knee for nearly nine minutes on May 25

Experts say continent needs to raise testing capacity from 1m to 10m per day

Iran recorded 3,134 new virus cases and 70 deaths on Wednesday

Global death toll surpasses 386,000, while over 2.8 million patients recovered, says Johns Hopkins University

Large group also protested at the US Capitol in Washington DC beyond curfew

'We must reject any thinking of our cities as a 'battlespace', he says.

FM discusses Covid-19 situation with Canadian international development minister

India is planning false flag operation, says DG ISPR

A criminal investigation is underway into suspected cruelty towards animals, according to forestry officials

'It landed a little (further) south than what we predicted, but Mumbai may experience bad weather until tomorrow'

They will now be open to faithfuls every day

Israel plans to annex parts of occupied West Bank under a plan agreed by Netanyahu and Gantz

Xinjiang will give priority to the employment of college graduates and urban and rural workers this year

In similar attack blamed on Taliban on Tuesday, seven labourers killed in northern Kunduz province

New data from Scotland brought the toll to 50,059, a dire milestone for Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Opposition call for suspension, review into export of British-made riot gear to US

Crime committed against this black man is same thing US govt has been doing all the world, says Iran’s Supreme...

Decision has wide economic and health implications as it could affect companies’ costs in restarting business activity

Rehabilitates a python, a baby manatee, 14 green macaws, 49 deer and a 130kg tigress

More than 600 nurses worldwide are known to have died from Covid-19

Troops are 'on heightened alert status but not participating in civil authority operations, says military spokesperson

5 elephants found butchered in one day while 3 others died of wounds at Mago National Park

Top-level talks aimed at defusing heightened tensions to be held on June 6

Foreign secretary says he has reached out to Australia, New Zealand, US and Canada about contingency plans

Pope called the death of George Floyd “tragic”

There were 12 victims in the US and eight in Russia and Pakistan each

Sao Paulo now has a total of nearly 120,000 cases with almost 8,000 deaths

Health Ministry says 40 more people died from virus, bringing death toll to 1,009

Australia’s first recession since the early 1990s and end one of the world’s longest growth streaks

We are into the thousands being successfully traced at the moment says junior health minister Edward Argar

Mumbai’s emergency services are already struggling with the nation’s largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus

The protests occurred despite curfews in major US cities

Death toll from the disease stood at 5,815

In a letter, 15 MPs ask European Commission to raise human rights violations issue with Modi government

10 to 50% higher risk of death than those in the white British group, says report

An average of 1,500 tests are processed daily and around 500 test positive

UAE city’s economy has suffered from the lockdown and travel restrictions as the coronavirus outbreak spread

US secretary of state says these kinds of actions echoed similarly heavy-handed behaviour over Hong Kong