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Protesters gather in Sydney, Saturday, June 6, 2020, to support the cause of U.S. protests over the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo)  Black Lives Matter protesters should be punished for ignoring coronavirus lockdown rules Australia’s prime minister said Thursday, sparking anger by also claiming slavery never existed in the country. Tens of thousands of […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly session of PMQs in Parliament in London, Wednesday, June 10, 2020.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth Boris Johnson has confirmed only a partial further easing of the lockdown in England from next Monday, saying restrictions must remain in place as the coronavirus infection rate remains […]

The recall comes as Russia has confirmed 493,657 virus cases and 6,358 deaths.Sophia Sandurskaya / Moskva News Agency The Russian manufacturer of ventilators involved in two deadly fires at hospitals treating virus patients said Wednesday it has recalled the devices for checks. In a statement sent to AFP, the Urals Instrument-Building Factory that makes the ventilators said […]

Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme attends a news conference on the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Geneva, Switzerland, March 16, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] GENEVA – Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, World […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks after a Cabinet meeting in Ankara, June 9, 2020.  Turkey will locally develop and produce favipiravir, a drug used in COVID-19 treatment, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday. Turkish scientists were able to synthesize the drug’s active ingredient and it will be available for coronavirus treatment after the registration process […]

Representative Ilhan Omar speaks at a campaign rally for Senator Bernie Sanders on November, 3, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Scott Heins / Getty Images)  Ilhan Omar, once a refugee, has become a major force in US politics. In her new memoir, she charts her journey from Somalia to the US Congress and explains why, despite […]

  North Korean soldiers in Kangwon Province were sent to work on construction projects in the Mt. Kumgang Tourist Region from late last year, Daily NK has learned. “After visiting Kangwon Province late last year, the Supreme Leader [North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] ordered new construction in the Mt. Kumgang Tourist Region and soldiers […]

Police officers clash with protesters in Atlanta during a demonstration over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd while in police custody. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday on Capitol Hill that President Donald Trump wants to overhaul police laws “sooner rather than later,” the first signal that the […]

President Pierre Nkurunziza Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Spokesman for the Burundian government says President Pierre Nkurunziza died at “Natwe Turashoboye” Hospital in Karusi Province in the afternoon of June 8. In a statement issued this June 9, Prosper Ntahorwamiye says President Nkurunziza felt discomfort in the night of June 6 and quickly went to the hospital for […]

© Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. US epidemiologists analyzed the structure of over 10,000 coronavirus specimens from various regions of the world and concluded that currently there are six SARS-CoV-2 varieties spreading across the globe. The research is published on the bioRxiv website. “The genomic epidemiology of the 10,422 SARS-CoV-2 isolates studied here show […]