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Turkey nears end of latest lockdown, death toll up to 4,397
Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll reached 4,397 as of Tuesday after 28 new deaths were reported in 24 hours, according to the country’s ...Minneapolis: Video shows officer kneeling on neck of black man who died
A handcuffed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis was seen on a bystander’s video pleading that he could not breathe as ...Scientists fight online virus misinformation war
With cat photos and sometimes scathing irony, Mathieu Rebeaud, a Swiss-based researcher in biochemistry, has nearly tripled his Twitter following since the ...Saudi Arabia to end virus curfew next month
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it will end its nationwide coronavirus curfew from June 21, except in the holy city of Mecca, after ...Protests in Ecuador against job, wage cuts, over virus
Demonstrators defied coronavirus restrictions to march in cities across Ecuador on Monday in protest against President Lenin Moreno’s drastic economic measures to ...UN says both Koreas broke armistice in DMZ shooting
An exchange of gunfire between North and South Korean forces in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the peninsula was a violation of the ...Europe lifts virus shutters as Japan ends emergency
Europeans flocked to parks, gyms and pools on Monday as more countries eased coronavirus restrictions, while Japan lifted its state of emergency ...Spain revises virus death toll down by nearly 2,000
Spain’s government on Monday revised downward the country’s death toll from the coronavirus by nearly 2,000, bringing the total number of deaths ...Russia’s coronavirus infections pass 350,000
Cases of the coronavirus in Russia climbed to 353,427 on Monday, having risen by 8,946 in the past 24 hours, the country’s ...Hungary partially reopens border with Serbia for local citizens
Hungary opened its southern border for citizens of Serbia and Hungary from Monday morning, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news ...














