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Read More President poses near his staff and downplays threat of Covid-19 after three days at military medical center Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A contagious Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday and immediately took off his face mask for a photo op, despite being in close proximity…

Read More (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A U.S. judge has ordered Iran to pay $1.45 billion to the family of a former FBI agent believed to have been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic while on an unauthorized CIA mission to an Iranian island in 2007. The judgment this month comes after Robert Levinson’s family…

Read More (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A U.S. judge has ordered Iran to pay $1.45 billion to the family of a former FBI agent believed to have been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic while on an unauthorized CIA mission to an Iranian island in 2007. The judgment this month comes after Robert Levinson’s family…

Read More Governments cannot have unrestricted access to phone and internet users’ data, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has determined, placing limitations on EU states’ ability to legally carry out bulk data collection. The panel of 15 judges ruled that the indiscriminate and mass collection of telephone, internet and web communications traffic is not…

Read MoreSoleimani was killed when his convoy was hit by a US drone strike near Baghdad airport on January 3.Soleimani was killed when his convoy was hit by a US drone strike near Baghdad airport on January 3.

Read More Protesters in the capital, Bishkek, angered by weekend elections they say were rigged, seized and ransacked the country’s parliament building. (Image credit: Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images) Protesters in the capital, Bishkek, angered by weekend elections they say were rigged, seized and ransacked the country’s parliament building.

Read MoreThe man whose name is still synonymous with the antivirus software he created is facing extradition to the U.S. after being arrested in Spain.The man whose name is still synonymous with the antivirus software he created is facing extradition to the U.S. after being arrested in Spain.

Read More After a three-day stay at a military hospital to treat symptoms of coronavirus, a contagious Donald Trump returned to the White House and immediately took off his face mask while posing for cameras. Video footage suggests the US president was experiencing laboured breathing during part of the photo op in which he also gave two thumbs up…

Read MoreIt is high time that social media companies took action.It is high time that social media companies took action.

Read More Opposition supporters in Kyrgyzstan have seized several government buildings in the country’s capital, freed the ex-president from jail and announced plans to oust the president and form a new government. President Sooronbai Jeenbekov accused “certain political forces” of trying to “illegally seize power” in the country in a statement on Tuesday morning and…

Read More Argentina has the misfortune of boasting the highest rate of positive Covid-19 tests in the world, even after the country endured more than 200 days of restrictions purportedly aimed at stopping the spread of the virus. Read more ‘Don’t let Covid-19 dominate you’: Trump tells Americans to ‘get out’ & ‘be careful’ in…

Read More (GENEVA) — The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization said Monday the agency’s “best estimates” indicate roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus — more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases — and warned of a difficult period ahead. Dr. Michael Ryan, speaking…

Read More<p>Seals, octopi, starfish and urchins shown in images washed up on shore</p><p>Seals, octopi, starfish and urchins shown in images washed up on shore</p>

Read More<p>Opposition parties are appointing their own ‘interim’ officials and demand a re-run of Sunday’s parliamentary election</p><p>Opposition parties are appointing their own ‘interim’ officials and demand a re-run of Sunday’s parliamentary election</p>

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Read MoreTaiwan air force scrambled more than twice as much in 2020 to intercept Chinese planes crossing island’s buffer zone.Taiwan air force scrambled more than twice as much in 2020 to intercept Chinese planes crossing island’s buffer zone.

Read More Nobody gives out awards for Worst Planet in the Galaxy—and it would be a dubious honor at best. Somewhere out there may be other garden planets like Earth. Somewhere too may be near-miss worlds like Mars. And somewhere out there are planets like 51 Pegasi b which, if it didn’t win the Worst…

Read More Dizzy with a soaring fever and unable to breathe, Scott Sedlacek had one thing going for him: He was among the first people to be treated for COVID-19 at Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center, and the doctors and nurses were able to give him plenty of attention. Hearing of President Donald Trump’s advice by…

Read More About 25 residents from remote Easter Island who have been stranded far from their loved ones for more than six months because of the coronavirus will finally be able to return home this week on a French military plane. The group has been stranded on Tahiti in French Polynesia. Many arrived in March…

Read More The Zimbabwean novelist, shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for This Mournable Body, is accused of intending to incite public violence in Harare Authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Carol Ann Duffy and Philippe Sands have called for charges against the Booker prize-shortlisted writer Tsitsi Dangarembga to be dropped ahead of her latest appearance in…

Read More In a suburb of Chicago, the world’s first government-funded slavery reparations programme is beginning. Robin Rue Simmons helped make it happen – but her victory has been more than 200 years in the making It began with an email. On an especially cold day in Evanston, Illinois, in February 2019, Robin Rue Simmons,…

Read More Conservative and Labour MPs are unhappy with lack of evidence behind 10pm closing time Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage MPs could signal growing discontent with the government’s coronavirus restrictions at key votes on the regulations this week, amid growing calls for the government to publish the scientific advice behind…

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Read More Democratic presidential candidate tells Florida town hall that ‘tough guy’ president should be afraid for those around him after taking off mask Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has said he was not surprised by Donald Trump’s coronavirus infection and delivered a blunt rebuke:…

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Read MorePolice used water cannon, stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowd who forced their way into a government building.Police used water cannon, stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowd who forced their way into a government building.

Read MoreUS president returns to White House to continue treatment as virus spreads through the administration.US president returns to White House to continue treatment as virus spreads through the administration.

Read MoreSouth Indians who got UK citizenship in 1997, find spouse income rules an impossible hurdle in effort to find security.South Indians who got UK citizenship in 1997, find spouse income rules an impossible hurdle in effort to find security.

Read More Entrepreneur has been arrested in Spain after US prosecutors alleged he hid millions, including in assets such as real estate and a yacht John McAfee, the antivirus software entrepreneur, has been charged with evading taxes after failing to report millions earned promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting work, speaking engagements and the sale of the rights…

Read MoreFootage shows people throwing papers from windows and entering President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s office.Footage shows people throwing papers from windows and entering President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s office.

Read More President Trump left the hospital on Monday, though his battle with COVID-19 is far from over. President Trump left the hospital on Monday, though his battle with COVID-19 is far from over.

Read More<p>Gov Andrew Cuomo plans to meet with the Orthodox community to ‘see if they will agree to live by the rules’</p><p>Gov Andrew Cuomo plans to meet with the Orthodox community to ‘see if they will agree to live by the rules’</p>

Read MoreThe White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID-19 to market that would almost certainly have prevented their approval before the Nov. 3 electionThe White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID-19 to market that would almost certainly…

Read More The White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID-19 to market that would almost certainly have prevented their approval before the Nov. 3 election. At issue was the FDA’s planned requirement that participants in the ongoing mass clinical trials for nearly a half-dozen vaccine candidates…

Read More President Donald Trump didn’t want to go to the hospital in the first place. Trump was admitted only after Chief of Staff Mark Meadows insisted he leave the White House when he spiked a fever Friday morning, was coughing and his blood oxygen level threatened to dip dangerously low, say two current White…