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China has taken over the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, following the expiration of the ultimatum given the United States to close the outpost. The closure order was a retaliation for China’s ouster last week from its ...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Donald Trump on Wednesday the first racist to become U.S. president. The Trump camp quickly rejected the label. Biden, who was vice president under Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, fielded a question ...

U.S. President Donald Trump again called Coronavirus (COVID-19), the ”invincible China virus”. Earlier, he had defended the name-calling, stating reason to be because the virus originated from China. Trump on his verified Twitter page, posted an image of himself wearing ...

A chilling new video has revealed how coronavirus spread around the world following the outbreak in China earlier this year. The data visualisation was put together by designers Global Stats who used the World Health Organisation ‘s (WHO) Situation Reports ...

Earth’s population will peak in 44 years at around 9.7billion before it starts to shrink again, according to scientists who predict Nigeria will eventually be home to more people than China. After 2064 the total number of people will start ...

Fighting erupted inside and outside of Taiwan’s parliament again on Friday over the disputed nomination by President Tsai Ing-wen of a senior aide to a top government watchdog post. The main opposition party labelled the appointment cronyism. The Kuomintang (KMT) ...

The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has topped 13 million with 210 countries and territories infected by the deadly bug. More than 13.14 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 571,854 have died, ...

Germany’s prost!tutes demonstrated in Hamburg’s red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that the brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus. With shops, restaurants and bars all open again in Germany, ...

The worldwide number of coronavirus cases has passed 12 million. The number of cases is triple that of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organisation. Many hard-hit countries are easing lockdowns put in place to slow ...

Dozens of people have been quarantined after the Bubonic Plague was confirmed in China. Cases of the disease were reported in Bayan-Ulgii aimag, a province in Mongolia, with a 15-year-old boy infected after eating a marmot hunted by a dog. ...

  Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign and joint committees outraised President Trump by $10 million in the month of June, Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday. The campaign, in combination with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and their joint fundraising committees, ...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has resigned, along with his government, according to an announcement from France’s Presidency. The resignation came ahead of a government reshuffle by President Emmanuel Macron designed to bolster his green credentials and win back disillusioned ...

More than 100 people have tested positive for coronavirus in India after attending the wedding and then funeral of the groom, who reportedly tied the knot while ill with the disease. Officials in Bihar state said Wednesday the 26-year-old groom ...

China on Monday said it would impose visa restrictions on U.S. citizens as tensions rise over Hong Kong’s autonomy. The state media reported that a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Beijing would impose visa restrictions against Americans with egregious conduct. ...

One person was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a Black Lives Matter rally in the US state of Kentucky, police said. The incident Saturday took place at Jefferson Square Park in the center of Louisville where protestors ...

The confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world surpassed 10 million last night, with the United States ad Brazil posting huge figures. The death toll has also surpassed 500,000, according to the latest figures by worldometers.info. United States and Brazil ...

The World Health Organisation has warned the demand for oxygen is outstripping supplies as COVID-19 cases race towards the 10 million mark. WHO director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said global cases are rising by about one million cases per week. This, ...

The biggest global increase in coronavirus cases has been announced as 183,020 cases were recorded in just 24 hours by the World Health Organisation. According to a daily report, the biggest increase in cases of the deadly bug came from ...

Donald Trump claims coronavirus may have been spread on purpose by China and believes some Americans wear face masks to oppose him. The US President told The Wall Street Journal “there’s a chance it was intentional” in relation to the ...

The recent outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing has been reported to be a European strain, according to Chinese officials who have released information about its genome sequence. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official Zhang Yong revealed the ...

Donald Trump has weighed in on the shooting of Rayshard Brooks – a black man who died after being shot by a white police officer in a restaurant car park in Atlanta. Commenting on the incident and the officer charged ...

An Iranian national convicted of spying for the US and Israel by helping target top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani will be executed, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran’s armed forces, which led ...

The Belgian city of Antwerp on Tuesday (June 9) confirmed removing a statue of colonial-era leader, King Leopold II. The move comes days after it was defaced by anti-racism protesters. Leopold is the subject of stern criticism over the role ...

Police have been bombarded with more than 200,000 calls from people reporting their neighbours for breaching lockdown – an average of almost five a second. New figures show more than 9,000 fines have been issued in the last four weeks ...

Donald Trump has claimed China could have stopped the coronavirus before it swept the globe in his first press conference since the ‘disinfectant storm’. The US president said his administration was conducting “serious investigations” into what happened when the outbreak ...