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Washington : The head of the World Health Organization is warning against a strategy of pursuing herd immunity to stop the coronavirus pandemic, calling the idea unethical. At a news briefing Monday in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros…
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will make an "important announcement" on Tuesday after a meeting with the king in which he aims to prove he has the parliamentary support needed to oust Prime Minister…
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London : Official figures show UK unemployment continued to rise over the summer, with more than 1.5 million people jobless in the wake of the coronavirus crisis and the wind-down of the furlough scheme. The UK unemployment rate rose…
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Washington : Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United Nations said here. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said 7,348 major disaster events had occurred between…
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MOSCOW (AP) — With Russia's mediation, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting at noon Saturday following two weeks of heavy fighting that marked the worst outbreak of hostilities in the separatist…
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Minsk : The effort to unseat autocratic Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko may be heading for a new phase.Belarusian activists, impressed by the success of protests in Kyrgyzstan, where protesters managed to pull off a “revolution…
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Seoul : Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have held a giant military parade early Saturday, Seoul said, with Pyongyang's latest and most advanced weapons expected to have been on show in the coronavirus-barricaded country's capital.…
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Even before COVID-19 became an issue, World Food Program chief David Beasley was warning global leaders that the world would face the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II in 2020. He said that was because of…
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Washington : U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden each said they are looking forward to their second debate next week, but the issue of Trump’s coronavirus infection has raised questions about health protocols…
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Washington : U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday evening after 72 hours of hospitalization for COVID-19. In a show of fitness, he climbed the steps of the South Portico, standing on the Truman Balcony where he…
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