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Coronavirus cases surge across U.S. as Americans face looming outbreak

Some schools and businesses aren't waiting. Wolff said the decision to close the Seattle field office was made "out of an abundance of caution". United States...

14-year-old boy from North York found safe

In a tweet on Thursday evening, Toronto police said the teen is being taken to hospital for a medical checkup. "We are going to be aggresively investigating...

Senate approves $8.3B coronavirus spending bill

The White House is expected to back the deal with President Donald Trump tweeting on Wednesday after the House approved the package, "Congress has agreed to p...

ICC clears way for probe of alleged Afghanistan war crimes

USA forces and other foreign troops entered Afghanistan in 2001 after the September 11 al-Qaeda attacks on the United States and overthrew the Taliban gover...

Iran Iran presents national strategy to fight coronavirus

Gilan is among the worst-hit provinces in the country by infections. Iran has temporarily released over 54,000 prisoners in an effort to stop the spread of th...

China shows understanding of Japan's quarantine

Experts caution that the results of those tests could take some time to be processed, leading to future spikes in confirmed cases . Prime Minister Scott Morr...

Gretha Thurnberg Displeased With New EU Climate Plan

Juan Espadas, the mayor of Seville and newly appointed chair of the Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) and of the Green Deal Wor...

Explosion near U.S. Embassy in Tunisia wounds 5 police

The assailant tried to enter the embassy but was prevented by police who guarded the diplomatic mission in the Berges du Lac district, a police official said. T...

Number of Coronavirus Cases in Mainland China Reaches 80,409, Over 3,000 Died

Meanwhile, 102 new suspected cases were reported, said the commission. The overall accumulated number of confirmed cases in mainland China stood at 80,552 as ...

Coronavirus: Italy death toll climbs to 148

The CSU last week announced a suspension of global programs in Seoul, South Korea, but did not immediately halt programs in Italy, noting that the outbreak in...

EU's Barnier: We can get good agreement despite "very very difficult" disagreements

Another key issue is that United Kingdom does not want to commit to applying the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and rules out a role for the Europe...

Gunmen Attack Ceremony In Kabul Attended By Top Afghan Leader

Ministry of Interior spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said special police forces had been sent to the area. The attack came just days after the United States and the T...

Coronavirus cases continue to increase worldwide

In addition, in Iran , 23 members of the country's parliament and head of the emergency services were reported to have been infected. There have been 16,113 ca...

High-speed train in France derailed, 21 injured

Some 50 gendarmes are present on the accident site, the national railway operator SNCF was quoted by French media as saying. An investigation is underway to d...

Almost everyone is biased against women — United Nations research

At present, only 14 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men worldwide have no gender social norm bias. That is 10 generations of women. We have 70% of clim...

The truth about Elizabeth Warren's husband Bruce Mann

And as a self-described Okie, Warren often talked on the campaign trail about her family's time " on the ragged edge of the middle class ". He said that right...

Thousands stranded on United States cruise ship tested for Covid-19

A Coast Guard helicopter was expected to deliver test kits to the Grand Princess once it reached the waters off San Francisco later in the day. At least 706...

Since coronavirus spreads Quickly, a word of Warning from China President

In total 3,042 people have died from the disease in China, the National Health Commission said, with another 143 cases, up from 139 in the previous day. The doc...

Federal judge blasts Barr for 'misleading' comments on Mueller report

The judge has ordered the Department to produce for him an unredacted version of the report en camera , meaning not publicly, for him to review behind the clos...

Martin Luther King's son and others rally to halt Alabama execution

In Alabama , tens of thousands of people have written to Governor Kay Ivey , calling on her to halt tonight's planned execution of Nathaniel Woods , a cond...

AMBER Alert issued for 14 year old boy

Watts, commander of the Organized Crime Enforcement Unit, adding that the teen has no involvement in the drug business. He said there has since been communica...

Ukraine Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk resigns for second time

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's party is set to promote some experienced hands in a sweeping reshuffle on Wednesday, as it ditches a cabinet run by...

Facebook Drops Trump Ads After Pelosi Cites Census Confusion

Facebook came under fire Thursday from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and one of the architects of the platform's policy created to combat census misinformatio...

Church in Jesus' birthplace to close after suspected coronavirus cases

She said at a press conference in Bethlehem that after examining 20 Palestinians suspected of having the disease who worked at a hotel in this southern West Ban...

Amy Klobuchar to End Bid for 2020 Democratic Nomination

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) announced Monday afternoon that she would be ending her 2020 bid for president, adding an endorsement for former Vice Preside...

Donald Trump hasn’t touched his face for weeks; is it Coronavirus fear?

He then plucked his own surmising of a likely death rate out of the air. "But again, they don't know about the easy cases because the easy cases don't go to t...

The Trump Campaign Just Sued the 'Washington Post'

The Washington Post did not immediately return a request for comment. The two articles in question and considered "defamatory articles" in the lawsuit are "T...

Evergreen: Woman waters fake plant she thought was real for 2 years

A plant owner was in for a surprise when she went to re-pot her " beautiful succulent " after about two years of caring and watering it. Wilkes kept the succ...

Coronavirus Patients in Iran Recover: Health Official

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is expected to be freed soon, a British member of Parliament said, quoting the Iranian ambassador to ...

Italy trying to contain coronavirus by shutting down schools nationwide

The government last month banned sporting events in the worst-affected northern regions. The decision came after Italian emergency chief Angelo Borrelli rep...