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Image: KCTV North Korean state media called out officials and citizens who are “still not awake” to the threat of COVID-19 in a series of articles in the Rodong Sinmun on Friday, with authorities demanding vigilance in the “life or death” fight against the virus. The Rodong Sinmun articles come alongside a steep rise in coverage of domestic measures against the […]

A scientist prepares samples during the research and development of a vaccine against the coronavirus disease at a Biocad Biotechnology Company laboratory in Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 11, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  Russia’s health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in October, local news agencies reported on Saturday after a drug completed […]

The Philippines imposed one of the harshest lockdowns in the world in mid-March that kept people at home except to buy food and seek health treatment Ted ALJIBE AFP/File Dozens of doctors’ groups on Saturday warned that the Philippines was losing the coronavirus fight, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to tighten a recently eased lockdown as cases […]

TikTok app | Imaginechina via AP Images President Donald Trump said Friday that he plans to bar the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the United States, a move that comes as officials across Washington accuse the company of posing a national security risk. “As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from […]

closed shop in Leicester, UK, on June 30, 2020.  Copyright  AP Photo/Rui Vieira The eurozone economy shrank by 12.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the previous one — the biggest drop on record, Eurostat announced on Friday. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the whole European Union is meanwhile projected to have fallen […]

A woman from Blekinge and a former officer from F17 are sentenced to prison in a large child porn complex. A man and a woman from Blekinge are now sentenced in the large child porn complex where the woman, to order, has produced child pornographic material where she has exploited her own children. The man […]

President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 2019. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Donald Trump is likely to be the only world leader speaking live from New York at this year’s United Nations General Assembly debate, scheduled to take place Sept. 22 to 25. Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., […]

A couple sits for dinner at a crowded restaurant in Marseille’s Old Port, southern France, Saturday, July 25, 2020.   –   Copyright  Daniel Cole/AP Photo More and more young people in Europe are testing positive for COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has told Euronews.Dr Hans Kluge, WHO’s regional director for Europe, said that “we see from reports both […]

MUnsplash/Brian Yurasits/A face mask found during a beach cleanup in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA. A face mask found during a beach cleanup in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA. The fight against plastic pollution is being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, as the use of disposable masks, gloves and other protective equipment soars, but UN […]

Pilgrims social distancing as a coronavirus preventative measure while circumambulating around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the centre of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, during Hajj, July 29, 2020. (AFP) Saudi Arabia’s authorities arrested 936 people who tried to enter Holy sites during Hajj without prior authorization, the General Directorate of Public Security […]