New York: Breaking weeks of silence, former Vice President Joe Biden has denied festering allegations that he had sexually assaulted a former staffer. “I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened,” Biden …
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New Delhi: With 2,293 new cases in past 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 37,336 on Saturday morning, the Union Health Ministry said. Of …
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Washington: US President Donald Trump has called on the Governor of Michigan to talk to and make a deal with demonstrators who have been protesting against the state’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions. …
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Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a ban on some 1,500 makes and models of military-grade “assault-style” weapons in the country. Starting Friday, licensed gun owners will no longer …
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Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19. In an FDA fact sheet for patients and …
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Wuhan (China): No new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported in central China’s Hubei Province on Friday, the provincial health commission said on Saturday. By Friday, there …
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Karachi: The total number of COVID-19 cases in Karachi jumped by 446, taking the total to 4,873 — over a quarter of Pakistan’s total of 17,699, while Sindh province remained the …
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Rome: The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 28,236 lives in locked-down Italy, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities, and recoveries to 207,428, latest data from the country’s Civil Protection Department showed …
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed the news that there were no more hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus originated last December, praising …
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Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony of a phosphatic fertiliser factory on Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday. “All the participants broke …
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