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United States could reassess Hong Kong's status: Pompeo warns China

Pompeo did not explicitly criticize China, nor did he give specific examples of what he was referring to, but the statement is the latest U.S. response after Be...

Canadian Air Force jet celebrating coronavirus front-line workers crashes into home

There is no official word so far on the condition of the occupant (s). Capt. Jennifer Casey, public affairs officer for the Snowbirds, died after a crash in K...

NSW virus death toll hits 48, one new case

The NSW Government has announced new rules for public transport as people slowly trickle back in to work and in short, we'll still be socially distancing for th...

Cafe Requires Customers to Wear Pool Noodle Hats for Social Distancing

The motto of the cafe is: "Keep the social distance." which makes sense with everything that's happening in the world. Rather than the floor markings and perspe...

Taliban Violating Spirit of Peace Deal With US, Envoy Says

Gunmen who attacked a maternity hospital in Kabul came "with the objective of killing mothers in cold blood", systematically shooting every woman in labour an...

Egypt tightens coronavirus restrictions for Eid holiday

This curfew would be effective next Sunday through Friday. Howevever, with churches and mosques halting congregational activities of worship, this year, the g...

McConnell says Obama administration ‘did leave behind’ pandemic plan

The accusations came on Monday during a campaign event for #Trump. The document warned of potential problems like shortages in personal protective equipment a...

Israel swears in unity government

But after 17 months without a stable government, Netanyahu asked for three more days to decide on cabinet assignments among his Likud party loyalists. Instead, ...

Japan's economy slips into recession

A man wearing a face mask amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus crosses the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo on 17 May 2020. Japan has fallen i...

Pirates attack tanker off Yemen coast, causing minor damage

The ship's manager reported that two speedboats with a total of six armed pirates aboard approached the vessel before an exchange of fire. Product tanker STOL...

Sailor tests positive for COVID-19 after returning to Roosevelt carrier

That some crew were testing positive again has puzzled officials and raised questions about reintegrating troops into the military if a second infection were po...

Ontario reports 340 new coronavirus cases, 23 new deaths related to virus

There are now 1,606 cases in Brampton, 88 in Caledon and 1,773 in Mississauga. The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care have reported 2,500 active cases amon...

China reports five new coronavirus cases, down from 8 a day earlier

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for strengthened controls in China's northeastern provinces as a growing cluster of infections near the Russian Federati...

Brazil's new health minister resigns

Brazil had processed almost 338,000 novel coronavirus tests in official labs by the beginning of the week, according to the Health Ministry. Mexico , whose l...

13 people wounded in shooting at Bogalusa memorial service for murdered man

An "extremely large" crowd was gathered in a vacant lot on Martin Luther King Drive at East 4th Street to remember Dominique James, 29, investigators said. Duri...

McConnell admits Obama did leave Trump a pandemic plan

And the Obama administration could draw from a similar document written during the administration of George W. Bush in 2006. We see it in the disproportionate...

'Delusional' Martin Shkreli denied prison release by judge

In their review of Shkreli's request for a three month release under "strict supervision", the probation department overseeing his case marveled at Shkreli's cl...

China reports no deaths from COVID-19, 5 new cases

A policeman wields his baton to disperse migrant workers as they were demanding train service to their home state of Bihar, after a limited reopening of India's...

Independent Egyptian media outlet Mada Masr says editor arrested

The outlet said she was conducting an interview with Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah . She was returned to a police station in so...

Snowbirds jet crashes in Kamloops

Two Snowbirds aircraft took off from Kamloops Airport around 11:30 a.m. local time on Sunday. This is a developing story and we will update once more informa...

Burr steps aside as Senate intelligence chair amid Federal Bureau of Investigation probe

Neither Burr's office nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment on the news report. The lawmaker dumped as much as $1.7 million in shares on February 13,...

Coronavirus: Liverpool's schools 'will not reopen on 1 June'

At today's Downing Street briefing he said: "There are some who would like to delay the wider opening of schools but there is a effect to this". "The governme...

China facing global pressure for COVID-19 inquiry

Of course, we would. Australia has received worldwide backing for an independent inquiry into coronavirus as its trade tensions with China face further st...

Navarro: CDC’s response ‘let the country down’

When asked for evidence that China "deliberately unleashed" the coronavirus to devastate the USA economy, Navarro said he did not think they did it "deliberatel...

Israeli new power-sharing government sworn in

At a ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, the three-year coalition government was formally approved by a 73 to 46 vote. Addressing the P...

Lockdown extended till May 31

The guidelines came soon after the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) extended the national lockdown beyond Sunday till May-end. This is the fo...

United States chasing of Fuel Tankers 'Violation of International Law': Venezuelan FM

Military and political analysts predict that such a cap will provoke a risky reaction to the campaign for the reelection of President Donald Trump. An Iranian...

S.Korea reports 27 more COVID-19 cases, 11,018 in total

The agency says 9,888 of them have recovered and that 17,660 were under tests to determine whether they've contracted the virus. South Korean health authoriti...

Pompeo Rebukes China Hackers Seeking COVID-19 Research

CISA director Christopher Krebs has alleged that " China's long history of bad behaviour in cyberspace is well documented, so it shouldn't surprise anyone they...

Spanish government asks Congress to approve third state of emergency

Spain registered 87 more deaths , bringing the total number of COVID-19 fatalities to 27,650. But the Socialist leader managed to salvage a key vote two weeks...