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Mask-shunning Republican Congressman Gohmert positive for COVID-19 -report 29 Jul 2020 - 07:35 pm

WASHINGTON - Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert, who steadfastly refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday,...

Maine restricts swimming after woman killed by great white shark 29 Jul 2020 - 07:25 pm

The state of Maine has restricted swimmers and increased the number of spotters on the beach after a great white shark killed a...

Trump defends use of virus aid bill to fund new FBI office near his hotel 29 Jul 2020 - 07:18 pm

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his push to use a coronavirus relief package to fund a new FBI headquarters...

US records 10,000 coronavirus deaths in 11 days as fatalities surpass 150,000 29 Jul 2020 - 05:32 pm

U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, the highest level in the world and rising by 10,000 in 11 days,...

India approves plan to boost state spending on education to 6% of GDP 29 Jul 2020 - 05:27 pm

New Delhi: India has approved a plan to increase public spending on education to nearly 6% of gross domestic product from around 4%...

Sweden to lift travel curbs to Norway and Denmark 29 Jul 2020 - 05:07 pm

STOCKHOLM: Sweden will scrap recommendations against travel to four European countries from Thursday, including neighbours Norway and Denmark, amid signs that coronavirus infections...

COVID-style: French ministers keep their distance for group photo 29 Jul 2020 - 04:54 pm

Paris: France's new cabinet posed for its official photograph Wednesday, standing in an unusual, spaced formation to observe social distancing amid the coronavirus...

Britain secures 60 mln doses of Sanofi/GSK coronavirus vaccine 29 Jul 2020 - 04:42 pm

LONDON/PARIS: Britain has signed a deal for up to 60 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline...

Iran launches underground ballistic missiles during exercise 29 Jul 2020 - 04:34 pm

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched underground ballistic missiles Wednesday as part of an exercise involving a mock-up American aircraft carrier in...

Vietnam brings 140 virus-hit workers home on rare rescue flight from Africa 29 Jul 2020 - 04:23 pm

HANOI: A specially converted Vietnam Airlines passenger plane equipped with ventilators and state doctors returned from Equatorial Guinea to Hanoi on Wednesday carrying...

Meghan fights to keep friends anonymous in newspaper lawsuit 29 Jul 2020 - 04:01 pm

LONDON: Lawyers for the Duchess of Sussex asked a judge at a London court on Wednesday to keep the names of five of...

Russian COVID-19 vaccine approval imminent, source says 29 Jul 2020 - 03:31 pm

MOSCOW: Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine will win local regulatory approval in the first half of August and be administered to frontline health...

Heathrow steps up calls for Covid-19 testing on U.K. arrivals to limit quarantine 29 Jul 2020 - 03:00 pm

London Heathrow airport will aim to introduce Covid-19 testing for arriving passengers by September if it can secure official U.K. approval for the...

To ward off infection, Afghans turn to home remedies 29 Jul 2020 - 02:31 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan: The panic over the coronavirus has led people to try an assortment of concoctions in hopes of a magic cure: In...

EU executive signs remdesivir deal with Gilead 29 Jul 2020 - 02:25 pm

BRUSSELS: The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it has signed a contract with Gilead for its COVID-19 medicine remdesivir that would cover...

France must not drop guard against COVID-19, minister says 29 Jul 2020 - 10:48 am

Paris: France's health minister urged the country on Wednesday not to drop its guard against COVID-19, saying it faced a long battle and...

Roche’s Actemra fails test for Covid-related pneumonia 29 Jul 2020 - 10:13 am

Roche Holding AG said its Actemra medicine failed to help patients with pneumonia caused by Covid-19 in the first of several clinical tests...

Heathrow tells UK: do passenger testing or lose 'quarantine roulette' 29 Jul 2020 - 09:56 am

London: Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest airport, called on Britain to urgently introduce a passenger testing regime, warning that without one it would lose...