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Number of South Koreans testing positive again for coronavirus rises to 163

South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it confirmed eight new cases in a 24 hour period, the lowest since February 20 when the number of...

New Ad Campaign For Domestic Abuse Victims Being Launched Today

Earlier this week, Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird said the counting dead women project had recorded 16 suspected domestic abuse killings in the last thr...

Holy Fire Descends in Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulcher

Orthodox churches celebrate Easter this week. From Jerusalem, the fire is distributed to Bethlehem, where tradition says Jesus was born, and to a number of Ea...

Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran, highest in Middle East

Turkey conducted a total of 40,520 tests for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of tests carried out so far to 598,933, he said. Th...

United States' COVID-19 Cases Cross 701,000 : Johns Hopkins

The first death caused by Covid-19 was on 9 January, in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The university's data counted 150,948 deaths, while the numbers of cases an...

Coronavirus pandemic | Spain reaches 20,000 deaths from COVID-19

Spain registered 410 more COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health, bringing the country's official death toll to 20,453. The number of p...

Nine new cases; southern death confirmed

It will also allow New Zealanders to expand the bubble of people with whom they have personal contact, which presents a challenge for contact tracing. Bloomfiel...

Trump suggests China may be ‘knowingly responsible’ for coronavirus

Mr. Rodriguez added that he hoped to see clergy and other faith leaders nationwide identified as essential workers, as well as a clear resumption of outdoor rel...

England medics to be asked to reuse gowns amid shortage

Public Health England updated its guidance on PPE to say that some should be considered for reuse based on advice on suitable decontamination arrangements obtai...

China admits mistake, raises Wuhan’s death toll by 50%

The addition, reported by state media on Friday, brings the nationwide death toll to 4,636, the majority coming from Hubei province, where Wuhan is located. T...

Deadly Russian plane fire from 2019 seen in newly released video

The case has been forwarded to prosecutors for the indictment to be appoved, the statement reads. Those officials have now formally charged Aeroflot pilot Den...

Parents find out primary school offers for new Suffolk pupils

Parents and carers choosing primary school places have been given the first choice for their child in 338 out of 345 applications. In Leicester, 4,468 applica...

Italy coronavirus death toll lowest in almost a month

The Civil Protection Department said Friday that 106,962 people are now infected with the coronavirus in Italy , 355 more than Thursday. The number of offi...

Coronavirus: Justin Trudeau says US-Canada border to stay closed another month

Both countries agreed on the continued closure, said Trudeau. Before the pandemic, around 400,000 people crossed the border each day. Last week, President D...

Man in his 20s stabbed to death in Dublin

The incident occurred shortly before 10pm at a Ballybough flat complex in the north of the city. Gardaí received a call about an altercation between two men. ...

UK Parliament Has Plans to Go Virtual According to Commons Speaker

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 11. "Obviously, that is not something that, from a public health standpoint, we ...

Spanish virus lockdown prolonged as toll tops 20000

The Health Ministry said the number of deaths in the country increased by 565 on Saturday, down from a rise of 585 on Friday. There are 2,293,644 confirmed ...

Hong Kong police arrest democracy activists, media tycoon

In all, nine former legislators were arrested. Protesters feel that Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has ignored their demands and used the police to suppress them...

Navy identifies USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor who died of coronavirus

He pledged the ship has the Navy's full support as the crew continues its fight against the coronavirus. Those who've tested positive for COVID-19 remain in...

Coronavirus: France death toll nears 19000 but spread continues to slow

The death toll from coronavirus infections in France neared 19,000 on Friday, but most data provided further indications that the spread of the disease was sl...

Coronavirus cases top 32,000 in Russia, 'difficult weeks' ahead

As of the morning of April 17, 4,070 new coronavirus infections have been recorded in Russian Federation, raising the total number of officially confirmed cases...

Africa Could See 300,000 Coronavirus Deaths in Best-Case Scenario

The death toll moved to 1,025 after 58 more fatalities were reported in various countries . One of the first recorded deaths from coronavirus in Africa was...

Trump Tweets To 'Liberate' 3 States, Gets Tongue-Lashing From Dem Gov

The protest - called 'Operation Gridlock - was devised by the Michigan Conservative Coalition and the Michigan Freedom Fund, which is linked to the family of ...

European Union apology important says Di Maio - English

Ms von der Leyen spoke of Europe needing an economic rescue package reminiscent of the post-World War II Marshall Plan, promising: 'The European budget will be ...

Could be another 30 days at least for Canada-US border closure

The RCMP and Canadian provincial and municipal police services have the same permissions on the US side in similar terrain circumstances. Both countries agree...

Bangladesh charter flights to return stranded Brits

Tickets will cost £600, and are being part-funded by the government's £75m scheme to organise repatriation flights from countries where commercial routes have...

United Kingdom coronavirus hospital deaths reach 14,576 after 847 more patients die

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, released on Thursday, suggested there were around 75% more coronavirus-related fatalities in England...

Canada, US, agree to extend border closure

Both Bujold and Zarah Malik, a spokesperson for the Public Safety department, said the border protection, immigration and customs agency elements of the Departm...

Elizabeth Warren officially endorses Democrat Joe Biden for 2020 election

Biden has been working to win the support of more liberal parts of the party ahead of his battle against President Donald Trump in the November 3 election, an...

China revises up Covid-19 death toll by 39pct; tally at 4,636

The mayor of Wuhan has previously admitted there was a lack of action between the start of January - when about 100 cases had been confirmed - and 23 January, w...