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FILE PHOTO: Clinicians from 360 Clinic are administering the test kits, but citizens will do their own sample taking ©  Getty Images / Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree […]

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian former Premier and President of Forza Italia party.   –   Copyright  Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, was admitted to hospital on Thursday evening. Berlusconi “was hospitalised as a precautionary measure at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan after the appearance of certain symptoms. The clinical setting […]

Protesters face-off with police officers on September 2 at a Washington, DC police station after an officer shot and killed a man in the city’s southeast [Shawn Thew/EPA] Police in Washington, DC, on Thursday released body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a young Black man in the city’s southeast, which ignited protests in […]

Portugal had been expected to be taken off the UK’s safe list today (Picture: Getty Images)  Greece and Portugal will not be added to England’s travel quarantine ‘red list’, despite a rise of infections in both countries. It means Brits returning from both destinations will not have to self-isolate for 14 days when they arrive […]

North Korea’s summer military exercises have more or less been halted because many soldiers have been ordered to focus on relief work in flood-ravaged areas, Daily NK has learned. The military’s Supreme Command issued an order to all military units in mid-August to “minimize” their participation in the summer exercises and help rebuild areas damaged […]

  © Evan Vucci/AP Photo President Donald Trump talks to a crowd of supporters after arriving at Wilmington International Airport, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Wilmington, N.C. President Donald Trump encouraged North Carolina residents to attempt to vote both via the mail and in person, seemingly urging them to commit voter fraud as a test of […]

Health care workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) check the temperature of laborers near a construction site, Ahmedabad, India, Sept. 3, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  The coronavirus pandemic rages in many parts of the world as the number of cases in India are expected to soon pass Brazil and the U.S., while the death toll in […]

© NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University Ahead of a slew of new missions to Earth’s natural satellite, researchers have detected a bizarre and unexpected anomaly on the lunar surface: the airless, liquid water-free Moon is rusting.       This perplexing discovery has its roots in 2008 when the Indian Space Research Organization’s […]

Ethiopia says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will help lift its population out of poverty [File: Adwa Pictures/AFP] The United States has suspended a portion of its financial aid to Ethiopia over the lack of progress in talks with Egypt and Sudan about a massive dam Addis Ababa is constructing on the Blue Nile River. […]