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Students may receive a refund from the program cost since all housing costs were fully paid in advance to travel. According to the February 28 email from the In...

Calls for emergency coronavirus sick pay for low paid workers

As reflected above, not only would a forced closure of the workplace trigger obligations on employers to pay earned sick leave benefits, but the closure of your...

Russia's Putin wants traditional marriage and God in constitution

Mr Putin's latest suggestions include a clause to spell out that a marriage can only mean a union between a man and a woman as well as a mention that Russian Fe...

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US Supreme Court weighs major abortion case; demonstrators rally

When the justices temporarily blocked the Louisiana law from taking effect a year ago, Roberts joined the court's four liberal justices to put it on hold. Jus...

Saudi suspends 'umrah' pilgrimage for citizens and residents over coronavirus fears

The move from the Saudi government follows the confirmation of two coronavirus cases in Pakistan on Wednesday evening. According to airport sources, Saudi Ara...

Ontario now investigating 102 people for potential exposure to coronavirus

It brings the total up to nine. Meanwhile, Home Depot of Canada Inc.'s director of corporate communications Paul Berto said in email that his company has put ...

Filipinos from Diamond Princess recover from novel coronavirus

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Govt protests Iran’s remarks on Delhi riots

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) had also given its take on the violence, by tweeting, "The OIC condemns recent and alarming violence against Musli...

Virus risk moderate to high in 27-country bloc

As of 2 March 2020, 89,779 laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported worldwide, as well as 3,069 deaths - a lot of them in China - and 45,512...

'Welcome to Narnia': Frozen homes near Lake Erie are an eerie sight

On February 27, 2020 the water temperature near the ice boom was 1.1°C (34°F). Last year, Hamburg homes near Hoover Beach were evacuated when winds pushed L...

Coronavirus cases top 90,000 worldwide: World Health Organization chief

Tedros added the COVID-19 is a unique virus that is deadlier, but it doesn't spread as easily when compared to influenza. Although the newly identified virus ...

World Bank to help countries combat coronavirus outbreak

The strengthening of country health surveillance and response systems is crucial to contain the spread of this and any future outbreaks. "International cooper...

Donna Brazile tells RNC chair Ronna McDaniel to 'go to hell'

She added, "For people to use Russian talking points to sow division among Americans - that is stupid ". Co-hosts Ed Henry and Sandra Smith then turned to ...

Joe Biden Confuses Sister for Wife

They held posters reading the same and showing the image of a cow. Jill Biden wasted no time when two women separately charged toward her husband Joe Biden...

SA in a recession for the third time since 1994

A recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline. This is the third time since 1994 that we've been in a recession, with the las...

Buttigieg endorses Joe Biden for president

Five candidates - Biden, Bloomberg, Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA and U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii - remain in the running for th...

Democrats blanket Super Tuesday states with eye on delegates

A prosecutor before being elected to the Senate in 2007, Klobuchar was considered a moderate in the Democratic field, repeatedly critical of government expansio...

Mike Bloomberg campaign denounces 'vandalism' at St. Pete office

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg plans to reassess on Wednesday whether he should stay in the race after disappointing results in Tuesday's pr...

Benjamin Netanyahu on verge of election victory

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) at a meeting of the 55-member union of his Likud party and other right-wing and religious parties, in the Knesset, Novemb...

New coronavirus cases in China traced to Italy, report says

Beijing will begin to isolate travelers arriving in the Chinese capital from countries hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, amid a rise in imported cases of ...

Taliban threaten to refuse talks and resume violence over prisoner release row

The declaration was announced on Saturday by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani , US Defence Secretary Mark Esper and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a c...

Trump chats with Taliban leader by phone amid peace deal

Trump also told reporters , "We've agreed there's no violence". "If they [Taliban] want to discuss prisoners, then they should not have any other conditions ...

Priti Patel expresses ‘regret’ at resignation of Home Office mandarin

The new bullying investigation was revealed by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, who said the government wants to "establish the facts" and "treats all su...

Vatican opens archives on Pope silent during the Holocaust

Buried in its long text was a reference to "hundreds of thousands of people who, without any fault of their own and sometimes for the sole reason of their natio...

Stepmom arrested for murder in missing boy case

The document laying out the reasons for Letecia Stauch's arrest was sealed and investigators and prosecutors declined to discuss details. The sheriff's office...

Pope Francis tested for coronavirus after falling ill

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told Reuters that he had no immediate comment on the report which claimed that the pope was tested for the Coronavirus as a...

Iran's enriched uranium stocks 5 times over nuke deal limit: IAEA

The IAEA announced the latest figures in a confidential report distributed to member countries today. In a second report issued Tuesday, the IAEA said it ha...

UK PM Boris Johnson gets engaged with girlfriend Carrie Symonds

Symonds is the first unmarried partner of an incumbent Prime Minister, and the first to move into Downing Street as well. Earlier Johnson said Britain was very ...

India summons Iranian envoy over comments by foreign minister on Delhi violence

New Delhi told Iranian Ambassador Ali Chegeni on Tuesday that Zarif's comments were " totally uncalled for and unacceptable ", according to local media, citing...