U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department, in Washington, US on April 29, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters): China could
A general view picture shows the Israeli settlement of Efrat (L) in the Gush Etzion settlement block as Bethlehem is seen in the background, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 28, 2020. (REUTERS File
An elderly woman wearing a glove and using a cane walks in the street during the hours elderly people are allowed to go outdoors, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain on May 5. (RE
Nurse Cristina Cadenas, 53, adjusts a plaster in her nose after taking off a full personal protective equipment (PPE), during her shift at Principe de Asturias hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Anti-government protesters wearing face masks to avoid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) raise their hands up symbolising of the "Five demands, not one less" during a protest, in Hong Kong, China
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, US on September 26, 2019. (REUTERS File Photo)
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Pope Francis holds weekly general audience virtually from the Library of the Apostolic Palace due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Vatican on April 15, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet flies past Mount Fuji, Japan on January 29, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
HONG KONG, May 6 (Reuters): As Washington and Beijing trade barbs over the coronavirus p
People maintain social distance as they wait for food distributed by the volunteers during the thirty-six days of the lockdown imposed by the government amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (CO
A woman waves a French flag from a window to support healthcare workers amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Saint-Mande, near Paris, France on May 5. (REUTERS Photo)
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Women wearing protective face masks as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) walk at a traditional market in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 5, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain on May 6. (REUTERS Photo)
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Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova attends a government meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia on January 21, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
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GENEVA, May 6 (Reuters): At least 90,000 health-care workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipmen
Women use their cellphones while sitting on a picnic blanket at Sun Park during Labour Day holiday, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Beijing, China May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Gar
Washington, May 6 (IANS) An ousted US vaccine agency official filed a whistleblower complaint alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favoured by Presi
United Nations, May 6 (IANS) An estimated 19 million children, more than ever before, were living in displacement within their own countries due to conflict and violence in 2019 -- some of them for years, accor
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Washington, May 6 (IANS) The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 1,201,337 as of 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (C
Washington, May 6 (IANS) Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
Fauci, di
Washington, May 5 (IANS): A woman in the US state of Michigan has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a