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Pompeo renews criticism of China over virus but welcomes supplies

Hua tweeted the donation was aimed in particular at strengthening developing countries' health systems and added that China had already donated $20 million to t...

World Programme Warns Of 'Multiple Famines'

WFP chief economist Arif Husain said that the economic impact of the pandemic is a hammer blow for millions who can only eat if they earn a wage and called for ...

Two people killed in Madill tornado

Severe storms swept through the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas on Wednesday killing at least five and injuring dozens, CNN reported, citing emergency offic...

Mike Bloomberg Partnering With New York to Develop Coronavirus Program

Why it matters: Cuomo has previously said contact tracing - tracking down people who have interacted with coronavirus patients - is a key component to the "p...

Germany Nixes Oktoberfest As Euro Cancellations Stretch Into The Fall: Coronavirus

Soeder and Reiter appeared together at a press conference on Thursday morning to announced the news, with Soeder calling it "unbelievably sad", reports the Deu...

Trump on Georgia's decision to reopen businesses Friday: 'It's too soon'

Canadian chef Hugh Acheson, a James Beard Foundation Award victor and owner of four restaurants in Georgia, says he won't be opening up shop. "But I disagre...

Seven more big cats at Bronx Zoo test positive for coronavirus

More than 15,000 people have been killed by Covid-19 in NY state. They were infected by a staff person, according to WCS. Subsequently, they were tested for C...

Las Vegas Mayor’s interview leaves CNN anchor stunned and netizens fuming

She said that her offer was turned down, and that she was told by the city's statistician that she could not do that because workers in the city come from acr...

No indication coronavirus was constructed in lab

As scrutiny of Trump's response to the outbreak has intensified, congressional Republicans have sought to blame China for the coronavirus outbreak, which emer...

Australian frigate joins USA ships in S. China Sea amid rising tension

According to the Epoch Times, the survey ship remained off the shore of Malaysia as of late Sunday. Earlier, on April 14, citing data from Marine Traffic, Re...

Cuomo: Meeting With Trump Will Focus on Funding

During the White House meeting , Trump and Cuomo also agreed the Navy ship Comfort will leave New York City as the rate of spread of COVID-19 there continu...

Pentagon assumes Kim still in control of military

John Hyten, said he has "no reason not to assume" that Kim is in control. "I just hope he's doing fine", Trump told a White House news conference on Tuesday...

Kim Jong Un exit wouldn't change US goals: Pompeo

South Korean and Chinese officials and sources familiar with United States intelligence have cast doubt on the South Korean and USA media reports, while the Whi...

Chinese mainland reports 10 new COVID-19 cases, 27 asymptomatic

The commission said six of the new COVID-19 cases confirmed on Wednesday were imported, down from 23 a day earlier. Of seven new confirmed cases in Heilongjia...

Las Vegas mayor spars with CNN over reopening the city

It was a "Say what?" moment. Even some casino owners are frantically distancing themselves from the mayor, probably because openly proclaiming that Las Vegas ...

Trump Executive Order Pauses Some Green Card Processing

Trump's order will put a two-month restriction on allowing entry by foreigners seeking legal permanent residency through a green card , a government I.D. Om...

Newly discovered snake species named after Harry Potter character

Instead of naming the viper after themselves, the researches went with Trimeresurus salazar , after Salazar Slytherin - one of the guys who literally founded...

Iran-US tensions rise on Trump threat, Iran satellite launch

Generally, as in the case of last Wednesday's incident, warships will issue warnings by a variety of means, including via bridge-to-bridge radio, before taking ...

RCMP Release PartialTimeline of Nova Scotia Mass Shooting, Confirm 22 Victims

The gunman, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, who at one point masqueraded as an RCMP officer and disguised his auto to look like a police cruiser, shattered the pea...

Trump on N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un: ‘I wish him well’

However, South Korea's presidential office said in a statement no suspicious activity had been detected in North Korea that may have given backing to the repo...

Conflicting reports on Kim’s health reveal intelligence access to NK

And I'd like to see him do well. Kim Joon-hyung, head of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, said on a radio program Wednesday that it was impossible for i...

More than a thousand coronavirus-related care home deaths registered - ONS

The news comes after one care home boss said some protective equipment was now more than 24 times more expensive than it was before the pandemic. The FT extra...

Coronavirus originates in bats, no sign of lab manipulations

President Donald Trump last week suspended U.S. funding of the World Health Organization, charging that the United Nations agency promoted China's "disinformati...

Virtual vigil honouring victims of N.S. shootings planned for Friday

Leather said it was between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. the following day that police received information the shooter was dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a fake p...

South China Sea tensions rise as Australian frigate exercises with U.S. warships

The USS America amphibious assault ship and the USS Bunker Hill , a guided missile cruiser, have been deployed and were operating in the South China Sea, US ...

Cambridge scientists suggest link between Covid-19 and air pollution

The Denver region has struggled with ozone pollution for years, and state regulators are now working to enact stricter rules on polluters after the Environmen...

Chatham Dockside shooting: Police urge residents to 'stay away' - gunman on balcony

She said he had been seen on the top floor of the block of flats and armed police had approached the high-risk and gone inside. A spokesman for Kent Police sa...

Three cops dead in horrific Melbourne crash

Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said they did not believe the driver of the Porsche was injured and he made a decision to flee the scene on foot. Victoria'...

President wants end to Brazil lockdown

Brazil has more than 40,000 infections and 2,500 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, making it the worst-affected country in Latin America. He said that the n...

Number of coronavirus cases in Russian Federation rises past 47000

Almost half of the new patients - 45.5% - are asymptomatic and were diagnosed through testing, the team said . "Russia has registered a rise in the coronavir...