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Virus situation 'critical' in Canada's Quebec province: premier 02 Oct 2020 - 12:11 am

Montreal - A second wave of Covid-19 in Canada is on its way to topping the average number of new daily cases from...

UK's Queen Elizabeth cancels big palace events for the year 01 Oct 2020 - 11:53 pm

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been forced to cancel all large-scale events at her Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle homes for the rest of...

Moscow to reinstate tough measures if COVID-19 rules ignored 01 Oct 2020 - 11:11 pm

MOSCOW - Moscow may reinstate tough measures if its 13 million population ignores COVID-19 protection rules, its mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Thursday...

Turkey and Poland put on quarantine lists in England and Scotland 01 Oct 2020 - 09:30 pm

LONDON - Travellers arriving in England and Scotland from Turkey and Poland will have to self-isolate for 14 days from early on Saturday,...

New York worries over 20 coronavirus hot spots, Wisconsin sees troubling trends 01 Oct 2020 - 08:57 pm

NEW YORK - New York state reported an uptick of positive coronavirus tests in 20 "hot spots" on Thursday, while Midwest states also...

Paris faces further COVID restrictions as virus surges 01 Oct 2020 - 08:30 pm

PARIS - The French government is poised to put Paris on maximum COVID alert from as soon as Monday, Health Minister Olivier Veran...

Super-spreaders caused most Indian coronavirus cases: study 01 Oct 2020 - 08:20 pm

New Delhi - A small group of super-spreaders were responsible for almost two-thirds of India's coronavirus cases, according to new research into how...

Donald Trump biggest driver of Covid-19 misinformation: study 01 Oct 2020 - 08:06 pm

Washington - US President Donald Trump has been the world's biggest driver of Covid-19 misinformation during the pandemic, a study from Cornell University...

Nine killed, 14 hospitalised in forest fires in eastern Ukraine 01 Oct 2020 - 07:24 pm

KYIV - Nine people were killed and 14 have been hospitalised as a series of forest fires swept through part of the eastern...

From Rio to Amazon, virus flare-ups flash warning in Brazil 01 Oct 2020 - 05:57 pm

Health experts are sounding the alarms on a sudden rise in coronavirus cases in early Brazilian hotspots like Rio de Janeiro and the...

Facebook nixes Trump ads as social media electoral tensions rise 01 Oct 2020 - 05:52 pm

Washington: Facebook said it removed campaign ads for President Donald Trump which appeared to stoke fear by claiming that his Democratic rival Joe...

UN to oversee border talks between Lebanon, Israel 01 Oct 2020 - 05:23 pm

Israel and Lebanon said they’ll begin talks meant to resolve a longstanding maritime border dispute that has driven yet another wedge between the...

'All I know is that I am dying': Navalny recounts ordeal 01 Oct 2020 - 04:58 pm

Berlin: Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny suddenly felt unwell on a flight over Siberia -- a frightening queasiness with cold sweat...

Rwanda genocide survivors want speedy trial for Kabuga, but court faces delays 01 Oct 2020 - 04:37 pm

KIGALI: A special U.N. tribunal in Tanzania should quickly try elderly tycoon Felicien Kabuga on charges of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide, survivors...

EU regulator launches real-time review of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine 01 Oct 2020 - 04:26 pm

The European health regulator said on Thursday it had started a rolling review of the experimental COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca and Oxford University,...

Microsoft Outlook email service hit by worldwide breakdown 01 Oct 2020 - 03:31 pm

Paris: Microsoft's Outlook email service suffered major problems on Thursday that saw people around the world encounter difficulties accessing their accounts via the...

Second Russian virus vaccine passes early trials: report 01 Oct 2020 - 03:05 pm

Moscow: Early clinical trials of a second Russian coronavirus vaccine have proved successful, its developer said Thursday after Russia boasted of approving the...