Ottawa, May 23 (IANS) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government was ready to track the contacts of those who test positive for COVID-19 by making tracing calls every day.
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Washington, May 23 (IANS) Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he regrets his remarks that if African-American voters back President Donald Trump's re-election, then they "ain'
BOGOTA, May 22 (Reuters): Disturbing images of bodies of dozens of coronavirus victims awaiting burial on the streets of Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil has motivated a businessman in neighboring Colo
OTTAWA, May 22 (Reuters): Canada will ramp up COVID-19 testing and contact tracing as it gradually lifts restrictions and is working closely with Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on a mobile phone a
GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters): Some 80 million children worldwide could be at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio due to disruption of routine immunisation during the COVID-1
LISBON, May 22 (Reuters): Portugal's doors are open to tourists, the country's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Friday, one of the first European countries to welcome back visitors fro
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 22 (Reuters): An Airbus plane with 99 on board crashed into a residential area of the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday while on approach to the airport, with at least one passenger sur
GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters): The United States called on the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to begin work immediately on investigating the source of the novel coronavirus, as well as its handling o
PARIS, May 22 (Reuters): The pilot of a crashed Pakistan International Airlines jet sent a Mayday and told controllers the aircraft had lost power from both its engines on its second attempt to land, accor
SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters): When a man in Seoul tested positive for the new coronavirus in May, South Korean authorities were able to confirm his wide-ranging movements in and outside the city in minutes, inc
KAWASAKI, Japan, May 22 (Reuters): Two paramedics jump out the back of an idling ambulance with Tokyo plates, carefully lowering an elderly woman on a stretcher. The patient, her small face covered with an
BEIJING, May 22 (Reuters): China said on Friday it will continue to strengthen anti-pollution controls and meet its environmental targets for 2020, but warned that the coronavirus pandemic would weigh on e
MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters): Russia denied on Friday a U.S. accusation that it had repeatedly violated the Open Skies treaty, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, and said it was Washin
GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters): The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 (Reuters): Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be home quarantined for 14 days after an officer who attended a meeting with him this week tested positive for the new coronavirus,
HONG KONG, May 22 (Reuters): A proposal to impose national security laws in Hong Kong could see mainland intelligence agencies set up bases in the global financial hub, raising fears of direct enforcement
LONDON, May 22 (Reuters): Billionaire financier George Soros said the European Union could break apart in the wake of the new coronavirus pandemic unless the block issued perpetual bonds to help weak membe
RIYADH, May 22 (Reuters): The family of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday that they had forgiven the men who murdered their father, paving the way for a legal reprieve for five defendan
Reuters Oxford University and AstraZeneca plan to recruit around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine which on Thursday received U.S. backing worth up to $1
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 22 (Reuters): A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with around 100 passengers and crew crashed on Friday in a residential area of the southern city of Karachi, with many feared d
