Xi said the spread of the virus overseas has not been effectively curbed yet and cluster cases were reported in a few areas in China, posing considerable uncertainty to the epidemic control.

They found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - that show how it may be evolving as it spreads in people.

The United Nations estimates that the life expectancy of indigenous people can be up to 20 years lower than that of their counterparts.

A foreign services officer in Pakistan, who was posted in Ukraine, has been sacked after he was found guilty of sexually harassing a local worker.

India has objected to the CPEC — a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking China's Xinjiang province with Pakistan's Gwadar Port — as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Russia now ranks fourth in the overall number of reported virus cases in Europe and fifth in the world.

The decision is being taken because the country's large number of poor people and labourers cannot not afford to live under lockdown any more.

The Knesset or Parliament voted by 71 votes to 37 to back the power-sharing deal between Netanyahu's Likud and his main rival former military chief Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties.

The BoE kept its benchmark interest rate at an all-time low of 0.1% and left its target for bond-buying, most of it British government debt, at 645 billion pounds.

The guidance contained detailed advice for making site-specific decisions related to reopening schools, restaurants, summer camps, churches, day care centers and other institutions.

The former couple married in 1993 and had four children – Lara Lettice, 26, Milo Arthur, 24, Cassia Peaches, 22, and Theodore Apollo, 20 – before announcing their split in 2018.

While Israel's defence ministry announced a breakthrough in the development of an antibody, Rome-based biotech firm Takis said vaccine tests had shown positive effects.

The mosques and devotees have been asked to comply with a set of safety protocols to hold prayer congregations, the Religious Affairs Ministry said.

The Islamic republic has battled to contain the Middle East's deadliest outbreak of the COVID-19 illness since reporting its first cases in mid-February.

Japan reached the decision just three days after the US drugmaker filed for fast-track approval for the treatment.

When taking into account age in the analysis, black males were found 4.2 times more likely to die from a COVID-19-related death and black females 4.3 times more likely than white ethnicity males and females.

The data bring the total claims filed since mid-March when the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to close their doors to stop the virus's spread, to 33.5 million.

Drug otilimab - in which GSK acquired rights from German biotech firm Morphosys in 2013 - may possibly ease the devastating effect of the virus on the lungs, while not suppressing the virus directly, a company spokesman said.

US Vice-President Mike Pence has also tested negative.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that once these flights are completed, over 16,500 travellers will have been brought back from India on 64 special flights.

The deceased's family protested against NADRA and the government, saying elderly people should be given an area to sit with shade when aid is being distributed.

Coronavirus cases have been registered in all of Russia's 85 regions, with Moscow the worst affected by far with 92,676.

Giscard's French lawyer said Thursday that the 94-year-old former president retains 'no memory' of the incident. Giscard was president of France from 1974-1981.

COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets or contact and the virus has also been detected in feces, saliva and urine.

Top Republican senators urged US President Donald Trump on Thursday to suspend all new guest worker visas for 60 days and certain categories of new guest worker visas, including H-1B, for at least a year or until unemployment figures return to normal levels.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said the "Russia hoax" made it very difficult for the leaders of the two countries to deal with each other.

Attorney Douglas Wigdor is well known for his work on prominent cases related to sexual harassment and assault. He represented six women who accused Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, of sexual misconduct.

The major cruise lines are accused of failing to do enough to get their staff home, ostensibly to save money on pricey charter flights – a claim the companies deny.

Gregory McMichael, 64, previously told police that he and his son chased after Ahmaud Arbery because they suspected him of being a burglar. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, has said she believes her son, a former football player, was just jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood before he was killed on a Sunday afternoon.

During a meeting with the governor of Texas in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump told reporters he had little contact with the man and would be tested daily going forward. Neither Trump nor Pence wore masks during the meeting.

Kim sent Chinese leader Xi Jinping a diplomatic communication congratulating him for China's "success" in controlling the novel coronavirus epidemic.

The US President said all the American journalists with the Pulitzer Prize should be forced to give it back because they were all wrong.

Last week, US President Trump threatened new tariffs against China after claiming there was evidence linking Covid-19 to a top-security lab in Wuhan.

US officials say fewer illegal immigrants are trying to enter the country from Mexico amid new enforcement rules imposed in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan says agents are encountering about half the number of migrants along the southwest border than in the month before President Donald Trump authorized the rapid expulsion of migrants under a March 21 public health order.

Croatia's Defense Ministry says an air force training plane crashed in the southwest of the country, killing two crew members.

The virus that causes COVID-19 can be found in semen, Chinese researchers report in a small study that doesn't address whether sexual transmission is possible. Doctors detected the virus in semen from six of 38 men hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. Four were still very sick with the disease while two were recovering.

The H-1B work visa for foreign technology professionals is highly popular among Indians and a large number of Indians also opt for the EB-5 investors visa.

The two white men were identified by police as Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Gregory McMichael, 64, who both live in Brunswick.

Some of the companies that took loans said publicly they were financially secure, with some seeing increased demand for their products around the time they asked for the aid.

The father of the deceased filed a complaint with the police alleging that his 19-year-old daughter was killed by her husband for failing to serve him a hot meal for Sehri in the ongoing month of Ramzan.

On March 25, the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan was launched, but with humanitarian needs continuing to rise, the updated plan is calling for $6.7 billion for the remainder of 2020.

Large-scale parades that had been envisaged to commemorate the victory over the Nazis have been downsized as the world grapples with coronavirus crisis.

Her son was apparently fed up with having to constantly take care of her, Chinese state media reported. Rescuers said the woman was faintly calling for help as she was freed.

Controversial Pakistani cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi made the comments in an interview with an online portal when he was asked to respond to some fatwa allegedly issued by clerics in Saudi Arabia that beverages containing 40 per cent alcohol or less are halal (permissible).

In the third phase of its reopening plan, Denmark will also increase the maximum number of people allowed to meet in public to between 30 and 50, up from a 10-person limit.

On May 8, 1980, representatives of all World Health Organization (WHO) member states gathered in Geneva and officially declared that the smallpox-causing variola virus had been relegated to the history books, two centuries after the discovery of a vaccine.

As European countries begin to ease their restrictions on public life at a varied pace, with some allowing businesses to reopen while others remain on lockdown, the different rules are sowing confusion for travelers.

Countries like France, Germany and Britain have urged greater transparency from China over its handling of coronavirus, while the US and Australia have called for international inquiry.

The memo gives Biden campaign representatives new language to use in their attacks on Trump and shows a campaign honing an increasingly aggressive tone ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Afghanistan has recorded more than 100 deaths from the virus out of more than 3,700 confirmed cases.