NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters): Larry Kramer, an author, playwright and film producer who helped shape U.S. healthcare policy with his early advocacy of a national response to AIDS when it first emerged in the
WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday called his Republican rival Donald Trump an "absolute fool" for not wearing a mask at a series of recent publi
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters): Britain's government faced questions over how closely people would abide by its new COVID-19 test and trace service on Thursday, as a row persisted over the prime minister'
HONG KONG/BEIJING, mAY 28 (Reuters): China's parliament approved a decision on Thursday to go forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong that democracy activists in the city and Western c
Beijing, May 28 (IANS) China has rejected the US' request for a UN Security Council meeting to address Beijing's proposed national security law for Hong Kong, saying that the matter was an internal one
New York, May 28 (IANS) Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers have found an increase in the incidence of domestic violence reports in two US cities, Los Angeles and Indianapolis since stay-at-home orders
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Rome, May 28 (IANS) Some 117 new fatalities due to the coronavirus were registered in Italy on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 33,072, the latest data from the national Civil Pr
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Washington, May 28 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 5.7 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 355,000, acco
Washington, May 28 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has warned social media giants that his government could "strongly regulate" or "close them down" after Twitter fact-checked one of his tw
San Francisco, May 28 (IANS) Criticising Twitter for flagging tweets by US President Donald Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that social media companies should not be the arbiter of truth.
May 28 (Reuters) - The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and A
WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters): US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had offered to mediate a standoff between India and China at the Himalayan border, where soldiers camped out in a high-altitude
PARIS, May 27 (Reuters): France, Italy and Belgium acted to halt the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat patients suffering from COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, amid questions ab
KABUL, May 27 (Reuters): The Afghan government said it was in the process of freeing 900 Taliban members from prison on Tuesday, the biggest such release yet, and urged the insurgent group to extend a three-day
WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he certified on Wednesday to the U.S. Congress that Hong Kong does not continue to warrant special treatment under the U.S. laws
LONDON, May 27 (Reuters): Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britain on Wednesday to move on from what he described as a "very, very frustrating episode" when his closest adviser provoked outrage
WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies for stifling conservative voices, a day after Twitter attached a warning
BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters): German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday welcomed the European Commission's plan for a 750 billion-euro ($824.55 billion) Recovery Fund and said he was confident membe
SINGAPORE, May 27 (Reuters): Early one October morning in 1969, Singapore police found the body of a man dumped in a storm drain. He had been stabbed to death, police said, in what became one of the countr
PARIS, May 27 (Reuters): Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested this month after more than two decades on the run, told a French court on Wednesday that the international charges against him we