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Medical workers attend to a COVID-19 patient at the Sao Jose municipal hospital, in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. (AP)

Brazil passes Italy and Spain in confirmed coronavirus cases

Brazil's Health Ministry registered 14,919 new confirmed cases in the prior 24 hours, taking the total to 233,142

17 May 2020 2:16 PM IST

Protesters march after a rally at the Glynn County Courthouse to protest the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. (AP)

Hundreds demand justice for Arbery at Georgia rally

Protesters demand the removal of two district attorneys accused of dragging their feet in arresting the suspects

17 May 2020 2:08 PM IST

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a man to be tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in a neighborhood in Wuhan. (AFP)

Lack of immunity makes China vulnerable to second wave of virus...

Doctor Zhong Nanshan, senior medical advisor of the Chinese government and pivotal in China's corona fight explains

17 May 2020 1:57 PM IST

Former US President Barack Obama. (AFP)

Leaders aren't even pretending to be in charge: Obama

Obama also highlighted how the health crisis has underscored racial inequality in America

17 May 2020 9:43 AM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (AP)

New Zealand cafe denies entry to its PM to ensure social distancing

As New Zealand eases out of coronavirus lockdown, cafes were allowed to reopen on Thursday, but are required to maintain...

17 May 2020 9:16 AM IST

A health worker collects a swab sample from a member of parliament a day before budget session at parliament in Kathmandu. (AP)

Nepal reports first coronavirus death

Nepal, which has a population of 28 million, has conducted only fewer than 100,000 tests so far

17 May 2020 8:48 AM IST

Bosnian riot policemen stand outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sarajevo, Bosnia, ahead of the commemoration Mass for Croatian pro-Nazis killed at the end of World War II. (AP)

Bosnia Church holds Mass for Croatia's pro-Nazi WWII regime

The Mass provoked outrage from most political parties, Jewish leaders the Serbian Orthodox Church and anti-fascist NGOs

16 May 2020 4:38 PM IST

A medic uses a thermal screening device on a boy during a door-to-door survey to detect COVID-19 cases in Nagaon district in Assam. (PTI)

Medics around the world face hostility over virus stigma

In countries like India, Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere, doctors and nurses are intimidated and treated like pariahs...

16 May 2020 3:56 PM IST

US president Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House. (AP)

Just don't want to talk to Xi Jinping right now: Trump

The US's criticism on how Chinese leadership handled the coronavirus outbreak has led to a spat between both the...

16 May 2020 12:51 PM IST

A Yemeni doctor talks to a patient receiving treatment and lying on a bed at a hospital in Aden, Yemen. (AP)

Yemen's fragile health sector struggles to keep virus spread in check

WHO says its models suggest that half of Yemen's population of 30 million could be infected and more than 40,000 could...

16 May 2020 12:31 PM IST

US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he departs the White House on Marine One. (AP)

In US, pandemic planning becomes political weapon

Trump has repeatedly said that the blame for inadequate supplies and machines to cope with an outbreak lay with his...

16 May 2020 11:56 AM IST

A worker in protective gear sanitizes the exterior of Saint John in Lateran Basilica, in Rome. (AP)

Italy to allow international travel from June 3

In a bid to contain the contagion, Italy was the first European country to impose nationwide restrictions in March

16 May 2020 11:16 AM IST