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United Kingdom to set out quarantine details soon, consider exemptions - worldwide

The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the Government was now looking at allowing people to fly between countries where the spread of the virus is low. Cou...

China terms power-sharing agreement in Afghanistan great news for people, country

Newborn babies lie in their beds at the Ataturk Children's Hospital a day after they were rescued from a deadly attack on another maternity hospital, in Kabul, ...

Trump Hits Back at Obama, Calls Him 'Grossly Incompetent President'

That's all I can say", Trump told reporters after arriving at the White House. News first reported on the apparent end of a long tradition of first-term presi...

USA border closure to be extended 30 more days, Trudeau says

Canada, U.S.to extend travel ban; Trump muses about ca. The ban, which prohibits discretionary travel like vacations and cross-border shopping without restric...

Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against Covid-19

This, he says, is to protect him from contracting it after multiple people close to him- including Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary- were confirmed t...

Roe vs. Wade plaintiff was paid to turn on abortion: FX doc

The Rev Robert Schenck, one of the evangelical pastors who worked with Ms McCorvey after her conversion to Christianity in the mid-1990s, looked stunned as he w...

Alberta backing offsets higher risk after Biden vows to kill Keystone XL

Without it, the US would remain dependent on heavy crude from places like Venezuela and subject to the sort of market instability triggered in March by a disp...

Obama Rift Could Jeopardize White House Portrait Ceremony

But the US mission in Geneva said in a statement that paragraphs on the right of poor countries to waive patents to obtain medicine during a health emergency wo...

Deadly attack in Toronto treated as 'incel' terrorism

Det. Paul Worden of the Toronto police homicide squad told CTV News Toronto that evidence found at the scene led them to believe the boy was part of the "incel"...

Two Men Wore Hollowed Out Watermelons On Their Heads To Shoplift

Police in Louisa, Virginia reported a freaky incident in which two people were seen wearing watermelons on their heads at a Sheetz convenience store on May 6. P...

China's defense at WHO: 'Virus doesn't respect borders'

As of Monday, Taiwan had 440 confirmed coronavirus cases with seven deaths. China has faced criticism over COVID-19 which appeared in the country's centra...

Never-before-seen footage from 1935 shows extinct Tasmanian tiger

It shows Benjamin, with his long snout and striped back, in his enclosure at the now-closed Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The vision found in NFSA archives formed ...

Donald Trump threatens permanent freeze of World Health Organization funding, review of USA membership

The report backed a probe into the global response, but said conducting it during the heat of the pandemic "could disrupt WHO's ability to respond effective...

Trump fired watchdog who was probing Saudi arms sales: Lawmakers

Under Secretary of State for Management Brian Bulatao told the Post that confidence in Linick had begun to wane after leaks to the media past year about an ...

Iran reports 2,294 new COVID-19 cases, 122,492 in total

However, 2,716 are now in severe conditions of the disease, the spokesman added. So far, 701,640 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Iran. Jahanpour added...

Training dogs to sniff out Covid-19

The initial phase of the trial will see National Health Service (NHS) staff in London hospitals collect odour samples from people who are infected with coron...

Murder-accused Lesotho Prime Minister Resigns

The country's former leader Thomas Thabane resigned on Monday. His coalition was disbanded in parliament last week and he had been expected to resign by May 2...

Bernie Sanders Says His Supporters Will Support Joe Biden, Despite Concerns

By contrast, Trump's approval rating has averaged in the low-to-mid 40s for most of his presidency. The sharp tone from the Biden campaign stands in stark...

China's President Xi pledges to make coronavirus vaccine 'a global public good'

When China went through the worst phase during the coronavirus outbreak, President Xi Jinping had gone into hiding. Member states hope the WHA can fashion...

Outdoor Fire Ban Being Lifted

Saturday, May 16th. The province says it will continue to assess forest fire hazard conditions and a Restricted Fire Zone designation may be reinstated in hig...

United States to resume funding of the who

They also wrote 200 personalised cards for health care workers, the report said . The president has kept up the criticism, saying at a town hall last week:...

Pompeo demands China reveal whereabouts of Tibet's Panchen Lama

Pompeo noted that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was identified by the Dalai Lama as the Panchen Lama and his successor, has not appeared in public since his abducti...

China backs independent review of WHO

Newsweek reported Tuesday that the Central Intelligence Agency believes China attempted to pressure the WHO against announcing a public health emergency ...

Marco Rubio taking over for Burr as chair of intelligence panel

He replaces Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, who stepped down temporarily last Thursday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized his...

Multiple firefighters injured in downtown Los Angeles explosion

There was light to moderate smoke when firefighters entered the one-story building in the city's Toy District and went on the roof - normal procedures to try to...

Donald Trump says he is considering restoring some funding to WHO

This came in response to a report from Fox News that the administration was going to restore some funding to the WHO. "The men and women we honour today r...

World Health Organization to review virus response as Trump renews attack

Trump has steadily stepped up attacks on the WHO in recent months, often accusing the organization of being too close to Beijing and for dropping the ball on...

Lockdown 4.0: What’s allowed and what's prohibited

Delivery of products in the red zones is expected to start from tomorrow onwards and will be made operational in accordance with MHA & state-specific guidelines...

China Donates to WHO Amid Calls For Inquiry

He said the World Health Organization should lead the global response to COVID-19 and called on the worldwide community to "increase political and financial s...

Donald Trump Hints At Fund Cut

In April president Donald Trump made a decision to cut the funding the United States provided to the World Health Organization (WHO) because of how they handl...