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Hong Kong reports 69 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, total surpasses 4,000

Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported 69 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong above

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17 confirmed dead in plane crash-landing in south India

Air India Express confirmed on Saturday morning that 17 were killed in a plane crash-landing in India's southern state of Kerala, including two pilots. As of now there

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Hostage-taking at bank in northern France ends peacefully

The police operation to tackle the hostage-taking at a bank office in the northern French port city of Le Havre ended without casualties, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced. "The hostage-

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Global COVID-19 cases surpass 19 mln -- Johns Hopkins University

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 19 million on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the global

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Fighting COVID-19 – as a family

05:43 Imagine having a father, mother, and sister all battlingCOVID-19 at the same time, with two of them fighting for their lives in a hospital intensive care unit.As the number of ca

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COVID-19 deaths in Brazil top 97,000

Brazil on Wednesday recorded 1,437 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 97,256. Tests also detected 57,152 new infections, bringing the total caseload t

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Paris to make people wear masks in some outdoor areas

Paris authorities are soon expected to make the wearing of masks compulsory in certain busy streets and other outdoor places in the city."We are going to ask that it be

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Somalia resumes international flights after four-month suspension

A photo showing troops guarding Barawe Airport in Somalia. /Social Media Somalia resumed international flights to and from the Horn of African nation on Monday after four months of disruptions

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Drug smuggling cat escapes from Sri Lankan prison

A cat, who was detained for transporting drugs into Sri Lanka's Welikada Prison, has escaped from a heavily guarded prison, days after it was caught by intelligence of

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Study shows face coverings in public help mitigate spread of COVID-19

U.S. communities that mandated the use of face masks in public saw an ongoing decline in the spread of coronavirus, according to a study reported by CNN on Monday. After five days of mask mandates

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Israeli, U.S. air forces hold joint exercise

Israel said on Monday its air force held a joint military exercise with the United States Air Forces Central Command for the second time in 2020. The so-called "Enduri

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24 killed as fighting continues over jail control in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city

Up to 24 people including three attackers were killed as fighting for the control of Jalalabad prison in the eastern Nangarhar province has been continuing since Sunda

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Clock on China's BeiDou-3 lose only a second every 300 million years

00:41 The rubidium atomic clock is the "heart" of the BeiDou-3 satellites. It determines the craft's position accuracy, speed and time functions. Earlier, it usually to

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Tokyo Paralympics competition schedule announced

The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Monday announced the schedule of the delayed Paralympic Games, which will be held from August 24 to September 5, 2021. The schedule will "in principle" be as

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Kazakhstan logs pneumonia cases with COVID-19 symptoms

The Kazakh Health Ministry for the first time reported daily pneumonia cases with COVID-19 clinical symptoms on Sunday. The ministry said on Aug. 1, Kazakhstan logged

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China's Mars probe completes first orbital correction

China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully carried out its first orbital correction Sunday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.The probe conduc

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Trump doubles down against mail-in voting, calls for immediate 2020 election results

President Donald Trump, whose suggestion to delay the 2020 U.S. election was roundly rejected earlier on Thursday, said the results of the vote should be known on elect