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Florida deaths surpass 6000 with single-day record

Nationally, COVID-19 deaths have risen for three weeks in a row while the number of new cases week-over-week recently fell for the first time since June. "It's ...

Troops disengaged on most of disputed China-India border - Beijing

Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that PLA soldiers and Indian troops on the frontline have completed disengagement in "most locations" and situation is ...

Trump files new challenge to NY subpoena for his tax returns

In the filing, Trump's attorneys stated the subpoena, which looks for 8 years of tax returns and other monetary records from his long time accounting company,...

Pentagon details plan to reduce forces in Germany

Esper said the cost of the moves had not yet been calculated. Numerous other forces will be based in the United States but will rotate into Europe for temporary...

NYPD Confirms Protester Was Arrested Using Unmarked Van in Manhattan

This protester was released from custody this morning. Many took to social media to condemn the arrest of the protestor, which was compared to a kidnappin...

Donald Trump Jr. temporarily restricted on Twitter after sharing COVID-19 'misinformation'

Twitter's PR team, in response to false claims that it had permanently suspended Trump Jr.'s account, posted in a statement , "This account has not been perman...

UK: Former envoy to Turkey tapped for MI6

An accomplished spy and well respected across Britain's intelligence community, Moore served in various senior diplomatic and security roles before winning MI6'...

Five Rafale jets land at Ambala airbase

India blamed Pakistani fighters for the attack. China also suffered casualties in the showdown but has not given figures. "The Birds have landed safely in...

European Union restricts exports to Hong Kong over China security law

New Zealand is the final member of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance to take such action after the US, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom p...

More COVID deaths linked to Vic aged care

Mr Andrews said of the 500 visits already done, people were not home for 29 of them and those cases were referred to police. He told the Today show just now t...

Negligence driving increase in German coronavirus cases, says health institute

Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff, Helge Braun, also called the rise in cases a "cause for concern". Last Friday, however, the RKI warned that the n...

Yemen separatists abandon self-rule in step toward peace

The southern separatist issue has strained the Saudi-led anti-Houthi alliance. The UN has been holding virtual talks between the warring parties to agree to a...

Malta says 65 migrants rescued at sea test positive for coronavirus

The discovery that so numerous group had COVID-19 will bolster concerns in both countries that a recent increase in new arrivals will undermine local efforts to...

US to move 11,900 troops out from Germany: Pentagon

Of the troops leaving Germany some 5,400 will be "staying in Europe" but the official would not identify the exact locations that they will be moving to, saying...

Arizona bridge burns, partially collapses after train derailment near Tempe Town Lake

The outlet reports that a burning train vehicle was reportedly carrying lumber, some of which went into the lake below the train bridge, Tempe Town Lake near ...

Not emu-sed! Pub boss spitting feathers at birds’ rowdy antics

According to locals, the emus are large animals and stand at just over 6-and-a-half feet tall. "We didn't really want them becoming patrons in the hotel", own...

At 2,967 tigers, India’s capacity at peak

In India alone, the number of tigers has more than doubled between 2006 and 2018, with an estimated 2,600 and 3,350 animals in the south Asian nation. Tiger o...

Trump says he never confronted Putin about Russian Federation bounty reports - Axios

He said he and the Russian president discussed nuclear nonproliferation in that phone call. "I have never discussed it with him", Trump said in an interview o...

Turkey passes social media regulation bill that could increase online censorship

The law requires foreign social media sites to appoint Turkish-based representatives to address authorities' concerns over content and includes deadlines for ...

Showers, Storms To Continue Tuesday Through End Of The Week

We still have several days of rain on the way. We will monitor the storms for localized flash flooding. The exact location of the front will tell how many showe...

Belarus president recovers from asymptomatic coronavirus infection

He did not give a source for that figure. Belarussian law enforcement has detained 33 mercenaries from the private Russian military contractor Wagner Group le...

Total number of recovered cases fast approaching 1 million

The total number of active cases are 4,56,071 cases. On the global front, The overall number of coronavirus cases has topped 16.4 million, while the deaths ha...

University of Hong Kong sacks veteran democracy activist

Meanwhile, the Hong Kong-Beijing Liaison Office, which represents Beijing's government in Hong Kong, welcomed his removal, saying: "The University of Hong Kong'...

UK PM Boris Johnson says maybe he could have managed pandemic differently

Johnson also spoke of "lessons to be learned" and said ministers could have done some things "differently". "Now more than ever, Scotland needs both governmen...

Hurricane Douglas nears Hawaii, bringing rain and high winds

The Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) in Honolulu , Hawaii upgraded the Hurricane Watch in effect in Maui County to a Hurricane Warning this mornin...

Trump administration won’t accept new DACA applications

An administration official said Tuesday that a new memo to be issued later in the day by the current acting secretary of Homeland Security would allow them to...

Mumbai Sero Survey shows 57% of those in slums already infected

Researchers suggested that better social distancing and access to better hygiene as well as interventions by the local municipality to freeze the spread of infe...

United Kingdom signs up for Sanofi-GSK coronavirus vaccine

Kate Bingham, Chair of the UK Government's Vaccines Taskforce, said: " Through this agreement with GSK and Sanofi, the Vaccine Taskforce can add another type o...

Suga: Abe statue would be 'unacceptable'

Kim Chang-ryeol, owner of a botanic garden in the mountain town of Pyeongchang, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he canceled an unveiling ceremony for ...

Vietnam evacuating 80000 after virus outbreak

Vietnamese authorities are evacuating 80,000 people, mostly regional tourists, from the central city of Danang after three residents tested positive for the co...