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ROME: As a national lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic is drawing to a close, Italy on Saturday posted a decrease in new infections, according to...

PARIS: The French government has decided to extend the state of health emergency until July 24 to fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Minister of Health...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds conducted a flyover on Saturday in Washington D.C., Northern Virginia and Prince...

OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced a ban on some 1,500 makes and models of military-grade "assault-style" weapons...

PYONGYANG: Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of a phosphatic fertilizer...

NEW YORK: New York is still the state hit the hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, with 308,314 confirmed cases and 24,039 deaths, as the...

MOSCOW: Russia has reported a daily record of 9,623 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 124,054 as of...

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that the COVID-19 outbreak still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways on Saturday extended the cancellation of all passenger train services till May 17 in line with the extended lockdown...

New Delhi: India on Friday extended its nationwide lockdown by two weeks (till May 17) with effect from May 4, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a...