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Chinese ventilator makers desperate for parts as global demand for machines hits 1 million

  China has asked Switzerland to provide more components for ventilators as domestic producers face an “impossible” task of expanding supply to meet...

WhatsApp Reduces Forward Message Limit to 1 Chat at a Time to Curb Fake News During COVID-19 Outbreak

  With a view to limit the circulation of fake news and misinformation through its platform, WhatsApp on Tuesday narrowed down the limit...

COVID-19 : Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma, donates 500 ventilators, gloves to Nigeria, 53 nations 

    Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma, has made additional donations, including 500 ventilators to Nigeria and 53 other African countries to help fight...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Moved to Intensive Care

  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to the intensive care unit after being hospitalized for COVID-19. The prime minister drew...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for coronavirus

  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital for tests on Sunday night, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus, the...

U.S Senator Calls For The Resignation of WHO DG

  Sen. Martha McSally is calling on the World Health Organization director general to step down over what she deems his assistance in...

The End of an Era: KLM Says Farewell to Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet

  After nearly fifty years, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is retiring the Boeing 747 Jumbo  passenger Jet. KLM’s final 747 Flight KL686 Boeing...

CORONAVIRUS WATCH: Prisoners in New York are being offered $6 an hour to dig mass graves

    The state of New York is offering prisoners at Rikers Island jail $6 per hour — and personal protective equipment if...

Journalist Maria Mercader Dies at 54 After Testing Positive for Coronavirus

  Maria Mercader, a CBS News veteran who worked for over 30 years as a reporter and talent director,  died on Sunday after...

Japan-bound aircraft carrying COVID-19 medical supplies crashes in Philippines, 8 on board feared dead

  A Japan-bound plane conveying coronavirus medical supplies from the Philippines has crashed after taking off, killing all the eight people on board, a...

29-year-old newspaper suspends print edition after its reporter contracts COVID-19 

      After one of its reporters tested positive for the coronavirus, Viet Nam News, the country’s largest English-language newspaper, has suspended...

High Number of Chinese Tourists Responsible for Italy’s Coronavirus Woes – US Task Force

  Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Thursday that Italy has been impacted particularly badly...

British Prime Minister  Boris Johnson Says Tests Positive For Coronavirus

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has in a dramatic style announced he is suffering from coronavirus. Johnson said he had tested positive...

US Embassy, State Department Scramble to Arrange Flights For Stranded Citizens in Nigeria

  The United State’s Mission in Nigeria has urged all citizens stranded in the country to enroll in the Smart traveler Program to...

US offers $15m for arrest of Venezuela’s president Maduro, indicts him on drug trafficking charges

  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with federal drug trafficking crimes as part of a far reaching U.S. investigation stretching from...

Anyone caught intentionally spreading coronavirus would be charged as terrorist

  People who intentionally spread the coronavirus could face criminal charges under U.S federal terrorism laws, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official has...