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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 ...

Sweden’s Princess Sofia is taking a break from her royal duties to join the front line fight against coronavirus by taking a job in a hospital. The royal, who is married to the eldest son of King Carl XVI Gustaf, ...

The Queen has cancelled her birthday tradition of gun salutes for the first time in 68 years amid the coronavirus lockdown. The monarch will celebrate her 94th birthday on Tuesday – an event normally marked with pomp and ceremony. But ...

Princess Beatrice has officially cancelled her wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen’s granddaughter, 31, was set to wed the millionaire property tycoon, 37,  at St James Palace on May 29, but the wedding has ...

Brazil’s Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said Thursday he’d been sacked by President Jair Bolsonaro, after weeks of clashes between the two over the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mandetta made the announcement on Twitter following a meeting with ...

Billionaire Bill Gates says life may not return to normal for 18 months following the coronavirus pandemic. The Microsoft founder said the crisis is “unprecedented” and is proving “very tough” – but a vaccine will bring the ordeal to an ...

A doctor who warned Boris Johnson that frontline staff urgently needed more Personal Protective Equipment has died after being diagnosed with coronavirus. Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury has sadly died after spending 15 days in hospital. The 53-year-old was a locum ...

  President Tayyip Erdogan rejected the resignation on Sunday of Turkey’s interior minister, who said he was stepping down in the wake of a short-notice coronavirus lockdown which sent people rushing to shops to stock up on supplies. Authorities declared ...

A group of U.S.-based small businesses has filed an $8 trillion lawsuit against China, alleging that the nation’s communist government knew as early as mid-November that COVID-19 was a new, deadly virus, but covered it up. TMZ reports: A group ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday declared a state of emergency to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, his office said on Twitter. “Considering the gravity of the #COVID19, the government of Ethiopia has enacted a State ...

The global confirmed cases for COVID-19 have now crossed the one million mark globally with the United States of America, China, Italy and Spain highest hit nations. The total number of confirmed cases as at the time of filing thing ...

The Portuguese face at least another two weeks in lockdown after the government decided Wednesday to extend confinement measures as deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic near 200. The restrictions were first imposed on the 10-million population on March 19 but ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told security forces they should shoot dead anyone causing “trouble” in areas locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic. About half the country’s roughly 110 million people are currently under quarantine — including millions in ...

The UK coronavirus death rate has today jumped by 563 to 2,352. Britain’s positive Covid-19 cases have also risen – with 29,474 infected people – up from 25,150 yesterday. The Department of Health today confirmed the number of deaths in ...