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New Jersey's first coronavirus death confirmed

As efforts continue to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in New Jersey, state health officials are directing people who have come in contact with so...

Explained: Why Italy has imposed a nationwide lockdown

Mr Conte told reporters that measures introduced just two days ago in much of the north were no longer sufficient after a jump in deaths tied to the highly infe...

Pope delivers video blessing to deter crowds amid coronavirus fears

Italy's new nationwide restrictions on social events and travel are created to curb the spread of a disease that has killed 631 and infected 10,149 in just ove...

Inslee: New Virus Policies, Prep for Large Outbreak in WA

Residents need to be isolated in their rooms away from other people at a facility that has one or more residents, staff, contractors or volunteers who are subje...

Working Families Party Endorses Bernie Sanders

He has denied all of them. Numerous writers predictably decried sexism as the cause of Warren's failure to win the Democratic Party nomination. Harris, fo...

Man rescued after 69 hours in rubble of fallen China hotel

Several have been killed and others trapped when in the collapsed Chinese hotel that was being used to isolate people who had arrived from other parts of Chin...

South Korea Sees New Cluster of Infections As Confirmed Cases Surpass 7,500

Additionally, 13 employees live in Incheon and 11 employees live in Gyeonggi province. "The mass infections at the call centre could be the beginning of a fre...

As death toll rises in Italy, Lombardy region running out of beds

A total of 631 people have died from the virus in the country, the Italian Civil Protection department said Tuesday, up from 463 the day prior. So far, 7,161 ha...

Putin backs amendment for unlimited presidential terms

Her proposal came before the Parliament approved Mr Putin's constitutional shake-up in the second of three readings. In Russia, where the court system is domi...

March Democratic Presidential Primaries in 6 States

Polling out of the state, however, shows that Biden may have a comfortable lead over the Vermont senator, as the moderates and centrists of the Democratic Party...

Political Maneuver or Economic Move: What Caused the Oil Price Collapse?

These spot charters come on the heels of plans by Saudi Arabia to increase its production, following the breakdown of talks between OPEC and its allied prod...

Senate asks SC to uphold its authority in termination of VFA

The resolution was sponsored by Sotto and co-sponsored by Senators Drilon, Panfilo Lacson, Richard Gordon, and Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri. "I have termi...

Canadian, US fighter jets intercept Russian aircraft off Alaskan coast

They flew F-22s and CF-18s as they escorted the Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft for about four hours through a region known as the Alaskan Air D...

Health minister Nadine Dorries diagnosed with coronavirus

Health minister Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus . Dorries isn't the first politician to catch Covid-19, with Iraj Harirchi, who was runn...

UN Security Council endorses US-Taliban deal

The decree, to be made public later by Ghani's office, lays out details about how the Taliban prisoners will be released in a systematic manner to further pea...

Chef José Andrés serving Grand Princess cruise ship guests

Since then, passengers have been confined to their rooms and, as of Monday, the cruise has begun to disembark passengers. All 3,000 passengers will be quaran...

St Patrick's: What's cancelled and what's still on?

Toni Forrester is CEO of Letterkenny Chamber - She says the government must give clearer advice guidelines about public gatherings. It follows an announcement...

Judge rules US House panel can access redacted Mueller probe

In a 2-1 decision , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld an October 25 ruling by Chief U.S. Rogers' r...

Google Doodle Celebrates International Women's Day With Animated Video

The second layer portrays women from the 1950s to the 1980s, a landmark period in the wake of pushes for gender equality and quick changes to the status quo. Th...

Woman tackled on plane after coughing on flight attendant

He then asks for handcuffs. "Stay down, stay down, please", he says. The statement said passengers joining flights in areas seriously hit by coronavirus d...

Dutch PM Rutte bans handshaking and then... shakes hands

Having lectured dutch citizens on taking good "general hygiene measures" and the importance of substituting the typical hand-shake for a lower-contact method ...

Trump scare shows no American is immune from coronavirus risk

Gaetz's office reports that he is not feeling symptoms, but has received testing and is expecting results soon . Gaetz flew to Washington from Orlando with Tr...

Hillary Clinton: Our ‘Double Standard’ for Women Shows America’s ‘Absolute Misogyny’

After all, she has a new Netflix documentary that some people apparently want to watch. "It's a broad-based coalition". However, she stopped short of throwing...

British Prime Minister Johnson faces lawmaker revolt over Huawei 5G decision

The government, which has an 80 seat majority, won by 24. Bob Seely, one of the rebels, signalled the group would continue to pursue their cause, describing t...

OH plastic surgeon accused of drugging women, recording sexual assaults

Gupta, but objected that he did a video or took photographs of them meeting in any way. A prosecutor said during Monday's hearing that so far investigators ha...

Trump to Skip St. Patrick's Day Lunch With Pelosi

But he remains incensed with Ms Pelosi for leading the Democratic-controlled House in December to impeach him after he asked Ukraine's leader to investigate Dem...

New York Declares State Of Emergency Following Spike In Coronavirus Cases

There are 11 cases of COVID-19 in the city of NY, more than doubling the number of those who were diagnosed with the virus on Friday, the governor said at a new...

United Kingdom steps up coronavirus planning, may bring doctors out of retirement

If the virus becomes more widespread, the government will look at registering retired health workers to work again, and whether encouraging people to work at ho...

Germany reports first two deaths due to coronavirus

A spokesman for the health ministry in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia said that an 89 year-old woman with coronavirus died in the town of Essen ...

More than 70% of COVID-19 Patients in China Have Recovered

Italy on Sunday recorded the second-highest Covid-19 coronavirus toll in the world, after reporting a sharp jump in deaths and overtaking South Korea on infe...