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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks as he takes part in a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 11, 2020. © KCNA/via REUTERS/File Photo North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is “alive […]

A man wears a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk in a street close to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sunday, April 26, 2020.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Michel Eule The number of people dying from COVID-19 dropped to its lowest level in over a month in the three European countries most impacted by the […]

The prime minister was spotted making a discreet return to Downing Street ready to start work today (Picture: W8 Media) Boris Johnson has returned to No 10 to resume duties and could announce plans to ease lockdown measures from as early as this week. The prime minister discreetly arrived at Downing Street on Sunday evening […]

UNICEF/Asad Zaidi A health worker vaccinates a 4-year-old girl against polio at the door of her house in Bhatti gate area of Lahore Punjab Province, Pakistan Making its call at the start of the 2020 edition of World Immunization Week, UNICEF said on Saturday that millions of children are in danger of missing life-saving vaccines against measles, diphtheria and […]

France seized around 140,000 “illegal” masks during a police operation near Paris on Saturday. Two men were arrested in the afternoon whilst unloading “several boxes” from a cargo coming from the Netherlands in the suburban area of Saint-Denis, about 10 kilometres from the capital. Authorities opened an investigation on “possession of counterfeit goods and deceptive […]

The number of people to have died in hospitals in the United Kingdom after testing positive for coronavirus has surpassed 20,000, according to official data. The latest figures on Saturday showed that the UK had become the fifth country in the world to pass the grim milestone, but its actual toll could be much higher when deaths […]

Somalis protest against the killing Friday night of two people during an overnight curfew, intended to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, on a street in Mogadishu/Somalia Hundreds of disgruntled people took to the streets of Mogadishu on Saturday to protest alleged abuses by government security forces. The demonstration came after a government police […]

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – Satellite photos show a train believed to belong to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at his compound at a resort town in the country’s east, amid rumors about the leader’s health. The website 38 North, which specializes in North Korea studies, released the images Saturday, saying that on April 21 […]

At least 1,300 police officers — out of roughly 140,000 in the force — have been infected by COVID-19 Sebastian ENRIQUEZ AFP  Seventeen police officers in Peru have died after contracting novel coronavirus while enforcing the nation’s pandemic lockdown, officials and state media said. Authorities admitted earlier this week that at least 1,300 officers had been […]

A member of the medical staff waits for more patients at a Brussels hospital on Saturday. Photo: Reuters Global deaths linked to the coronavirus have passed 200,000, while confirmed cases of the virus are expected to hit 3 million in coming days, according to a Reuters tally. More than half of the fatalities have been […]