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It took 83 days for the first 50,000 coronavirus deaths to be recorded and just eight more for the toll to climb to 1,00,000.

Members of the National Academy of Sciences committee stated that it is unlikely that warm weather conditions will matter as not many people in the world have attained immunity to the disease, yet.

On Wednesday, 56 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, including 28 from abroad, were reported on the mainland taking their total to 1,104. Many of them were put under quarantine.

Antonio Guterres said the virus is 'unprecedented in our lifetime' and has required an unprecedented response.

The next FATF plenary will take place in October and since an on-site visit also needs to be done by a team to see on-ground compliance of Pakistan, a decision on the country’s fate in the FATF can only be taken in February, 2021, as per the assessment o...

Japan focused on dealing with clusters of infections and selective testing for the virus, a strategy that has failed to curb its spread.

The wet markets, such as the Huanan Seafood Market in China's virus-hit Wuhan city, are an important "risk factor" for disease spread, the UN biodiversity chief has said as she called for scaling up stricter controls on the sale and consumption of wild sp...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Tuesday that donations of medical equipment by foreign companies like Huawei in the fight against the coronavirus will have no influence on future government policy.

The Russian president is handling his duties remotely after the head of the country's main coronavirus hospital tested positive following a meeting with Putin.

The number of new infections in the world's second hardest-hit country after Italy also grew at a faster pace, rising 4.1 per cent to 140,510, it added.

Without mentioning Russia, the investigation concluded that in four out of the seven cases studied by the board -- a school, a health center, a surgical hospital and a protection center -- 'the government of Syria and/or its allies had carried out the air...

Pope Francis' former finance minister was convicted by a Victoria state jury in 2018 of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in a back room of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in December 1996 while he was archbishop of Australia's second-larges...

Iranian authorities say US sanctions have hampered their efforts to curb the outbreak, urging other countries and the United Nations to call on the United States to lift them.

Hours after the remark was widely reported in the news media, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly issued a written public apology, saying he does not believe Capt Brett E Crozier is stupid or naive.

Thomas Metzmacher was faced with the prospect of having to shut down his Frankfurt restaurant specialising in a traditional tart hard cider due to German regulations prohibiting groups of people from gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The man went to his balcony to complain to the group and a dispute erupted before he reached for his single-barrel hunting rifle.