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Authorities on Friday said the new coronavirus has infected about 500 people in China’s prisons, almost half outside the province at the centre of the epidemic. According to official figures, China has had more than 75,400 cases of…

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will sweep Nevada Democratic Party caucuses on Saturday, according to several media projections. At nine percent of the precincts reporting, the 76 year-old Sanders held…

Xiao Yao doesn’t know when or where he caught the new coronavirus. He suspects it happened on his train journey home to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Jingzhou city, in central China’s Hubei province. The 27-year-old, who works…

Mexico extradited the son of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to face drug charges in the United States, leading to fears his powerful gang may retaliate. Ruben Oseguera was handed over to U.S. authorities Thursday…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has warned Russia to stay out of the 2020 presidential elections after US officials had told him Moscow was trying to aid his campaign. “The intelligence community is telling us…

The queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II has stripped her grandson Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle fof the Duch and Duchess of Sussex titles and banned them from using it for any commercial purposes after 31st of March, 2020. The…

The Utah state senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults, reducing penalties for a practice with deep religious roots in the predominantly Mormon state. The bill, which would…

US President Trump’s friend, Roger Stone was sentenced to three years and four months in prison on Thursday for lying to Congress and witness tampering. Trump…

Two passengers of a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have died after contracting a deadly coronavirus that has infected more than 600 people on the vessel,…

China reported the biggest drop in new cases from the coronavirus outbreak in nearly a month on Thursday. The National Health Commission said that more than 74,500 people have now been infected nationwide by the virus, which…

China on Wednesday ordered three reporters from The Wall Street Journal to leave the country over what Beijing deemed a racist headline. The United States promptly…

Britain’s oldest person Hilda Clulow has died at the age of 111. Her family announced that Hilda passed away with her family and friends by her side at the…

US President Donald Trump has thrown himself into another quid pro quo mess, after he promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his…

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is riding high in the US Democratic race, while former Vice President Joe Biden is miserably sinking in national preference for the Democratic…

Queen Elizabeth and other senior royal officials have told the Duke and Duchess of Sussex they won’t be allowed to use the Sussex Royal label after quitting royal life.…

An eight-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by 16 men including her relatives over three years has died in hospital. The tragic youngster passed away in hospital in Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu,…

Palestinian youths have launched a campaign on Twitter to show solidarity with China, reinforcing an international trend on social media to back China’s ongoing fight against the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia,…

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and the world’s richest man, said Monday that he was committing $10 billion to a new fund to tackle climate change. In a post to his 1.4 million followers…

Britain issued severe flood warnings Monday, advising of life-threatening danger after Storm Dennis dumped weeks’ worth of rain in some places. One woman swept away by the floodwaters was feared dead. To the east, Dennis’…

Justin Fashanu, Britain’s first and only out gay male professional footballer, is to be posthumously inducted into the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame later this week. Fashanu will be recognised at a ceremony on Wednesday…

A Russian court ordered an undiagnosed local woman to return to coronavirus quarantine on Monday after she fled days earlier, from what she described as dismal conditions. The 32-year-old woman had been quarantined in St…

More than a dozen infected Americans from a coronavirus-riddled cruise ship off Japan flew on evacuation flights to the US with other passengers on Monday, as the epidemic claimed more lives in China to take the death toll…

Saudi fighter jet crashed in conflict-torn Yemen, the Riyadh-led military coalition supporting the government announced Saturday, as the Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they downed the plane. The Tornado aircraft came down on…

Rima settles in a chair at an upscale Riyadh cafe, looks around carefully, and seeing no one she recognises, drags on her electronic cigarette and exhales a cloud of smoke. “I feel that smoking in public is a part of exercising…