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Trump Rebukes Fauci on Coronavirus Comments: US in a 'Good Place'

Although COVID-19 is more lethal to older people, Fauci warned that young people are being infected at higher rates recently, a point that some local officials ...

India surges to third-highest number of global coronavirus cases

However, experts, as per media reports, were still unhappy with the number, suggesting that these ICMR-approved labs could perform at least 3.5 lakh tests in a ...

Facebook criticized by Free Press for empty PR response to ad boycott

The ADL's Rosenblatt said Facebook executives talked at the meeting about being on "a journey" in fighting hate speech. "Allowing the Trump posts to remain ...

New Zealand restricts entry for Kiwis escaping coronavirus

New Zealand citizens and residents may return to the country but will be subject to restrictions upon entry, according to New Zealand's government. New Zealan...

Covid-19: Over 10 000 new coronavirus cases reported

The province has only 668 fewer cases than the Western Cape after a recent surge in infections. The number of foreign and domestic travellers are the highest ...

`Hurtful experience`: British sprinter accuses police of racial profiling

In the video, Williams, who is obviously distressed, says repeatedly: "My son [her three month old] is in the vehicle". British sprinter Bianca Williams says...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive for COVID-19

And once more, he urged Brazilians not to worry about the public health crisis that has been surging across the country in recent weeks. Brazil has reported...

Anger as PM blames care home errors for coronavirus fatalities

But care providers said the basis for the PM's comments was unclear, while the National Care Forum (NCF) urged him to start "turning the dial up on reform and d...

Instagram is reportedly testing a TikTok-like feature called Reels in India

They warn that the app should be deleted from anyone's phones now. But when you have strong competition in the market already, then chances of success aren't mu...

Aussie Olympic snowboarder dies while spearfishing on Gold Coast

Brisbane-based newspaper the Courier-Mail earlier reported that Pullin was thought to have "suffered a shallow water blackout". Pullin, a champion snowboarder...

Aussie Olympic icon, 32, feared dead after tragic drowning accident

It's believed he suffered a shallow water blackout at around 10:30am. Paramedics were called to Palm Beach following a drowning incident off 19th Avenue about...

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

The far-right leader has caused huge controversy in Brazil for repeatedly flouting containment measures and minimising the risk of the virus, which has killed 6...

U.N labels Syrian, Russian airstrikes war crimes

The report investigated 52 incidents including 17 medical facilities, 14 schools, and 9 markets, the report also accused the Syrian Regime and Russian Federatio...

Mary Kay Letourneau, who married student she sexually assaulted, dies of cancer

She was paroled in 1998 and barred from contacting Fualaau, but returned to prison to serve the remainder of a seven-year sentence after they were found togethe...

Australia warns of 'arbitrary detention' in China

Early Wednesday morning in Asia, Australia's Depart of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) warned that their citizens living in and traveling to China may be arbit...

Coronavirus Cases in Boca Raton Near 2,000

And the mayor of Miami-Dade County on Friday imposed an indefinite nightly curfew as well as halting the re-openings of entertainment venues like casinos. "And,...

Donald Trump slams Harvard for not fully reopening in fall

Now authorities are trying to figure out how to reopen for the next school year. "A choice of two days per week in the classroom is not a choice at all", DeVos ...

COVID: India surpasses Russian Federation as third worst-hit country

The country has recorded over 20,000 cases of the infection for the fifth day in a row. In India, 2,53,287 patients are still under treatment. In March, Ind...

Beijing, New Delhi agree to border disengagement

A press release by India's Ministry of External Affairs said it was agreed during the call on Sunday that "it was necessary to ensure at the earliest complete d...

US’ current state really not good: Fauci

America's top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci warned "the current state is really not good" due to the fresh spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in t...

Tropical Storm Cristina forms far off coast of Mexico

Twenty named storms would mark the highest total since there were a record 28 in 2005 , including Wilma, the strongest hurricane ever measured. The National...

USA intelligence engages in drug trafficking

The Kremlin on Monday denied the bounty report , first published by the New York Times on Friday, that Russian forces had offered to pay Taliban-linked mil...

Federal Bureau of Investigation director says China aims to become "world's only superpower"

Over the past decade at the FBI, Wray said , Chinese counterintelligence investigations have risen by 1,300 percent, and agents open a new one "about every 10 ...

Australia: Melbourne heads back into coronavirus lockdown

The decision was announced on Tuesday, hours before the busy border between Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, and New South Wales is scheduled to c...

Covid-19: Over 11 Million Cases Worldwide

Johns Hopkins on Sunday counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections reported on Saturday in the USA after three days in which the daily count reached as high as 5...

In Terrifying Encounter, Man Fights Off Deadly Snake While Driving

However, he was pulled over by the Queensland Police Service for driving at 123 kilometres per hour. "It started to wrap around me and then its head just star...

Corona Vaccine : Likely or Unlikely?

The vaccine , being jointly developed by India's Bharat Biotech and ICMR, is one of several candidates being tested globally to fight the coronavirus pand...

British PM under fire for blaming care homes

Speaking during a visit to Goole in Yorkshire, the Prime Minister said: 'One of the things the crisis has shown is we need to think about how we organise our so...

North Korea says 'no intention' to talk to U.S.

Trump and Kim have met three times since June 2018 to reach a deal on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, but little progress has been made due t...

Driver fights off deadly snake on highway

Officers spotted the ute doing 123 kilometres an hour and pulled the man over. A person needed to combat off a venomous japanese brown snake whereas driving. ...