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Why I sacked health minister amid COVID-19 crisis - Brazilian President

Brazilians in some urban areas greeted the news by angrily banging pots and pans at their windows and calling for Bolsonaro to go instead. The president has s...

Joe Biden says he 'probably' can't reach Trump's base in 2020 election

Remaining confident, Biden went on to say that he believes the biggest concern "of the people we lost" in 2016 is having adequate healthcare. 'Empathy matters, ...

South Korea's ruling party takes landslide general election victory

South Korea is the first country to hold a national election since the global pandemic began that has claimed over 126,000 people and has infected almost 2...

Ruling party sweeps to landslide victory in South Korean elections

Moon's left-leaning Democratic party and its smaller affiliate won 180 seats in the 300-seat assembly - the biggest majority in the national assembly by any p...

Covid-19: Tricolour beamed on Swiss Matterhorn to send message of hope

The UK flag was also projected on the mountain on April 10. Zermatt Matterhorn has set up a series of webcams for people around the world to watch the broadca...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Abortions are 'life-sustaining'

Demonstrations against coronavirus measures are spreading across the United States, with people holding rallies in North Carolina , Utah, Kentucky and OH in ...

International Monetary Fund forecasts Israeli economy won’t recover until 2022

The RCF is interest-free and accessible to low-income members, while the RFI is accessible to all members, without the need to negotiate a traditional loan prog...

Donald Trump Tweet Storm Rips Democrats; Calls to ‘Liberate’ States

However, the government mandating healthy citizens to stay home, forcing businesses and churches to close is called tyranny", Reopen Virginia said in a sta...

Here's what Alert Level 3 will look like for local businesses

New Zealand has been in full lockdown for three weeks, meaning no one is allowed to leave their homes except for necessities or a brief respite of fresh air. "T...

Dr. Phil begrudgingly apologizes for comparing coronavirus to swimming pool deaths

Among the wild claims, Dr. Phil told host Laura Ingraham that "We probably shouldn't have ever started" the coronavirus quarantine, and compared deaths fr...

UK hospital COVID-19 death toll rises by 847 to 14,576

The physician said that while we "should not have any blame at this stage", the government "can make sure in the second wave we're not too slow". Donna Kinnai...

Nigeria leader’s top aide dies of coronavirus

Nigeria on Friday reported fifty-one new cases of coronavirus , taking the total confirmed cases in the most populous black nation to 493. News that Mr Kya...

Singapore reports 447 new cases in biggest daily jump, total 3,699

An Academy of Medicine staff attends to a migrant worker at a dormitory in Singapore , after almost 20,000 workers were quarantined, amid the coronavirus disea...

Germany to Begin Easing Virus Curbs Says Merkel

At a press conference on Wednesday after talks with the governors of Germany's 16 states, Merkel sought to reassure Germans that hospitals are not overburdened ...

Coronavirus cases cross 2 million mark globally

China, ground zero of the virus, most recently reported almost %50 raise in its death toll bringing fatalities from 3,345 to 4,636 with over 83,700 cases. A tot...

Jay Inslee: Trump’s Call to ‘Liberate’ States Could Lead to ‘Violence’

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia , which has reported more than 7,400 cases, has done the same. World coronavirus cases reached more than 2.2 million with almo...

Remember Michael Cohen? He's getting out of prison

Cohen, in March, had unsuccessfully argued he should be released from prison because of the pandemic. Michael Cohen , President Donald Trump's former perso...

China's virus death toll revised up sharply after review

In this February 13, 2020, photo, a doctor checks the conditions of a patient in Jinyintan Hospital, designated for critical COVID-19 patients, in Wuhan in cent...

Senate adjourns with no deal on small business loan program

The upper chamber of Congress held a pro forma session Thursday. "Well, look, we'd take a look at it". Democrats want money for hospitals burdened under C...

Captain Tom Moore gives Prince William title of Super Prince

Piers Morgan initially tweeted calling for the Captain - who lives in Bedfordshire with his family - to be knighted for his wonderful efforts, and many have ra...

Bolsonaro fires health minister amid COVID-19 pandemic, citizens protest with pans

Bolsonaro, for his part, has repeatedly characterised the virus as a "little flu", said shutting down the economy would cause more damage than confining only hi...

Debt moratorium 'essential' to help Africa fight coronavirus: Macron

While the news comes as a relief to professional cycling teams and fans, it moves the three-week race out of its traditional slot during the summer holidays whe...

Trump calls for states to be 'liberated' from coronavirus lockdowns

Northam, who weathered criticism after admitting he appeared in a picture either dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit or in blackface, signed a batch of gun contro...

Coronavirus Lockdown Extension: Government Says Restrictions Will Continue For Another Three Weeks

It effectively means that the measures in place to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on March 23, would co...

Canada, U.S. tentatively agree to extend border closure

But "the reality is that it will still be many weeks " before "we can talk about relaxing the restrictions on our borders", he said. Freeland said that regar...

Cuomo: Feds must help NY with tests. Trump: Stop complaining

Cuomo said that NY had representatives in China to help them acquire equipment but urged the federal government to do more so that states were not competing wit...

Bill Gates' Foundation Increases Coronavirus Funding To $250M, Criticizes WHO Funding Cut

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a halt in US funding to the World Health Organization, saying it had "failed in its basic duty" in allowing the pa...

Trudeau says $1.7B coming for orphaned well cleanups

Trudeau says he is grateful that Canadians have chosen to protect and care for one another during this time. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks fro...

China denies coronavirus came from Wuhan lab

Asked about the United States allegations, Zhao defended the World Health Organization and China . Also, some grassroots clinics were not connected with the ...

Chris Cuomo Heartbroken As Wife Cristina Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Gov. Cuomo said he talked to New York Mets owner Jeff Wilpon . It is the one thing I was hoping wouldn't happen and now it has", Cuomo shared, adding, "Mom...

Michael Cohen will be released from prison due to pandemic

President Donald Trumps former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is getting out of prison early due to coronavirus fears, according to CNN . Prison official...

United Kingdom coronavirus lockdown extended by 3 weeks

Fifty more coronavirus patients have been confirmed to have died in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire where the death toll now stands at 1,293. ...

New Zealand mulls plan to ease Covid-19 lockdown

New Zealand is in the midst of a four-week lockdown that has paralysed the economy, with thousands of jobs losses announced. "It carries forward numerous restr...

New York To Extend Stay-At-Home Order Through May 15

We're talking about human lives here", Cuomo said. Hundreds more people have been leaving hospitals than entering and coming off ventilators than going on. "Thi...

S.Korea: North fired suspected cruise missiles

He also inspected fighter jets and observed a drill in an unspecified western area, KCNA reported Sunday. This marks the first time a North Korean defector ha...