Lines of laundry are seen hanging between apartments behind barricades, which have been built to block buildings from a street, after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epic
A woman pulls a shopping trolley at empty Souk al-Hamidieh, as restrictions are imposed as measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Damascus, Syria on March 24, 2020. (REUTERS File
Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during the daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19) digital news conference in 10 Downing Street, London, Britain on April 15, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks during a joint news conference with Britain's Secretary of State of Defence Ben Wallace after their meeting at Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, US on March 5, 2020.
A man walks between beds at a shopping mall, one of Iran's largest, which has been turned into a centre to receive patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran, Iran on April 4, 20
A large screen on a building shows Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declaring a state of emergency, at Tokyo's famous entertainment district Kabukicho, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in
A combination picture shows Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 23, 2019 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Kiryat Malachi, Israel on March 1, 2020. (REUTERS
An African restaurant is closed off along with other businesses in Guangzhou's Sanyuanli area, where a neighborhood is in lockdown after several people tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-1
An elderly woman is seen with a food parcel she received from volunteers at a relief distribution, during a lockdown by the authories in efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lag
A view of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 20, 2017. (REUTERS File Photo)
KARACHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Married as a child and wrongly imprisoned for near
Travellers wearing face masks wait in line to have their health codes examined at a railway station, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tongzi, Guizhou province, China on April 16.
Rohingya refugees who were rescued by Bangladesh Coast Guard, sit on the shore in Teknaf, subdistrict of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on April 15, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
DHAKA, April 16 (Reuters): A
A man stands next to a board with the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers logo in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 19, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)
DUBAI/RIYADH/WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters): 
Family members of JBS USA meat packing plant employee Saul Sanchez attend his funeral after he died of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Greeley, Colorado, U.S., April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Seoul, April 16 (IANS) South Korea's ruling Democratic Party (DP) led by President Moon Jae-in has secured a landslide victory in the general elections, results showed on Thursday, which is set to give it
Dhaka, April 16 (IANS) Authorities in Bangladesh said on Thursday they have detained 382 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority trying to enter the country in a boat from the southern coast, after two mon
Washington, April 16 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that America has "passed the peak" of new COVID-19 cases and predicted some states would reopen this month, even as the country currently acco
New York, April 16 (IANS) Nine states in the US, which has the world's maximum coronavirus caseload, have emerged as outliers with less than 1,000 cases and less than 30 cases per day at a time when the co
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland on February 28, 2020. (
A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. (REUTERS File Photo)
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters): U.S. government officia