Sri Lanka increases coronavirus-curfew zones after spike in cases
Authorities in Sri Lanka increased the coronavirus-related curfew zones to 56 police divisions on Sunday, to check the virus spread through community-level transmission. So far, the island nation has reported 7,521 COVID-19 cases. The virus death toll rose to 15 on Saturday after a 56-year-old heart patient died in the North...
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COVID-19: US Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff tests positive
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Prez Trump understands power of Indian-Americans, says campaign official
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UN: Nuclear weapons ban treaty to enter into force
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US sets coronavirus infection record; deaths near 224,000
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Russian oil tanker suffers explosion, 3 crew members missing
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Trump had offered me post of Secretary of State: Nikki Haley
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Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee passes away at 78
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Slovenian foreign minister tests positive
Slovenia's Foreign Minister Anze Logar has tested positive for the coronavirus. The Foreign Ministry says Logar has displayed no symptoms of the disease and is self-isolating in the next 10 days. The official STA news agency says Logar was on a tour of the Baltics earlier this week and attended a session...
FBI joins investigation into fatal Illinois police shooting
The FBI will join Illinois State Police in investigating a police shooting in suburban Chicago that killed a Black man who was a passenger in a vehicle and wounded the Black female driver, a prosecutor announced Friday. Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim said he asked the U.S. Justice Department to...
Nov 3 poll choice between super recovery and Biden depression: Trump
US President Donald Trump on Friday said this election for Americans is a choice between a "super recovery" by his administration and a "depression" by his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Hitting the campaign trail from the battleground State of Florida, a day after the final presidential debate, Trump said "Biden proved...
Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week's grab that it's jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA's first attempt at such a mission. The...
Americans are learning to die with coronavirus: Biden
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday said Americans are not learning to live with COVID-19, but learning to die with it as the pandemic has dwarfed anything that the country faced in recent history and is not showing any signs of slowing down. More than 220,000 Americans have lost their...
Top Trump adviser wants more nations to field asylum claims
One of President Donald Trump's top priorities on immigration if he wins a second term would be to use agreements with Central American governments as models to get countries around the world to field asylum claims from people seeking refuge in the United States, a top adviser said. Stephen Miller, a...
Pak to remain in 'grey' list of FATF till Feb 2021
Pakistan will remain in FATF's 'grey' list till February 2021 as it has failed to fulfil six key obligations of the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog that include failure to take action against two of India's most wanted terrorists — Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed, officials said...
