The Philippine Senate has called for an investigation into the reported deaths of at least nine high-profile prison inmates, including drug lords, amid claims their deaths — allegedly due to coronavirus — were faked so they could escape custody, the Philippine Star reported on Tuesday.
CARACAS – It has now been four months since the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns began in Venezuela with no apparent end in sight. The Maduro regime recently extended lockdowns again last week.
An increasing number of young professional women in India are turning to commercial surrogacy to survive economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Times of India (TOI) reported on Monday.
Kim Jong-un reportedly berated members of his communist “Workers’ Party” on Monday for “serious problems” in the construction of the Pyongyang General Hospital and ordered his senior officers to “replace all the officials responsible” for the “careless” budgeting around its construction.
Doctors have blamed a surge in new coronavirus cases in the southern city of Marseilles on people coming to France from North Africa.
Two State Department cables in 2018 warned that a new laboratory in Wuhan did not have enough trained personnel to operate it safely while it was studying SARS-like coronaviruses isolated from bats.
Russian spies have targeted U.S., U.K., and Canadian organizations trying to develop a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, according to British security officials.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping demanded Communist Party leaders “brave challenges” on Sunday in the face of nationwide floods affecting 27 provinces, urging “more effective flood control measures” but not appearing to specify or offer any help personally to his underlings.
Public health officials are keeping the British people in the dark about the location of new coronavirus outbreaks to prevent “community tensions” and “hate crimes”.
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A Scotland-wide ‘Clap for Nicola’ event is being organised for Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister and the leader of the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP).
European Finance Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni has warned that the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic may be hurting the economies of European Union states more than was previously forecast.
The Agriculture Ministry of Indonesia announced this weekend the creation of an “antivirus necklace” made of eucalyptus that could allegedly kill the Chinese coronavirus, later walking back its properties, but not before the nation’s health minister claimed it could boost the wearer’s “psychological mentality.”
China’s most belligerent state newspaper, the Global Times, published a column on Monday declaring that American democracy has failed and the world sees America in the aftermath of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as a “helpless, underdeveloped country.”
Bali’s provincial government organized a mass prayer ceremony attended by over 1,000 people “seeking blessings” as Indonesia’s top tourist destination prepares to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, local news outlet Coconuts Bali reported on Monday.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said he is backing President Donald Trump because he is “the only one” who can get the American economy back up and running after the coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese police whisked Xu Zhangrun out of his home on Monday after years of writing scathing critiques of dictator Xi Jinping, reports alleged, and shortly after police began calling his wife and claiming he was soliciting prostitutes.
Ed Davey, the acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, reported Brexit Leader Nigel Farage to Kent Police for allegedly breaking the national quarantine rules for having a pint in a pub on Saturday.
A Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) has sharply criticised Scotland’s left-separatist devolved government for allowing pubs to open ahead of places of worship as the country emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
(AFP) — Thousands of residents in several high-rise apartments in Melbourne went into lockdown for at least five days Saturday, as officials struggle to control a virus outbreak in Australia’s second-biggest city.
LONDON (AP) — The pints are being poured and the unkempt hairdos are being cut and styled as England embarks Saturday on its biggest lockdown easing yet.
A lawmaker in Buenos Aires province, Argentina – where the nation’s capital is located – presented a bill on Monday that would require individuals to opt out of donating blood plasma if they are diagnosed with Chinese coronavirus and survive the infection.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq announced a “total lockdown” of its capital province, Erbil, on Sunday, in an attempt to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
People arriving from Pakistan brought half of all the imported coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom since March, a report has found.
An asylum seeker who stabbed six people including a police officer at the Glasgow hotel where he was being accommodated free of charge has been named as Badreddin Abadlla Adam.
PARIS (AP) — France is holding the second round of municipal elections in 5,000 towns and cities Sunday that got postponed due to the country’s coronavirus outbreak.
The suspect in a stabbing spree in Glasgow, Scotland, was a Sudanese man who had complained of being “very hungry” at the hotel which was housing him and other asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Britain’s Royal Air Force says the first in a series of flights taking coronavirus aid to Africa has departed for Ghana with materials for a field hospital with capacity for nearly 100 people.
North Korean officials shut down the city of Chongjin, the third-largest in the country, over a growing Chinese coronavirus outbreak there, Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed on Wednesday.
The House Republican report contained damning facts on how China worked to obscure the coronavirus outbreak.
A majority of Americans fear a second wave of the Chinese coronavirus, and most say they would change their behavior by practicing social distancing, halting gatherings with family and friends, and ultimately resuming self-quarantining, an Axios/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday revealed.
Chinese Communist Party media revealed a boom of 79 cases of Chinese coronavirus discovered in Beijing on Sunday, insisting the situation would not become a “second Wuhan” despite the nation’s capital going into “wartime” mode against the pandemic.
The German city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony has seen a fresh wave of hundreds of Chinese coronavirus infections, with some blaming them on an alleged illegal party to mark the end of Ramadan.
Women are worshipping the Chinese coronavirus as a goddess in parts of India, leaving offerings to the supposed deity, local media revealed this week.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo announced on Tuesday that his country had joined with Australia, European Union members, and other countries to propose a complete overhaul of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) in light of its poor handling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
About 60 percent of “mysterious deaths” recorded in Nigeria’s northwestern Kano state in recent weeks “were traced” to the Chinese coronavirus, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported on Monday.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Iran’s largest dissident organization, revealed that, by its tally, over 50,000 people have died in the country as a result of the Chinese coronavirus as of Sunday.
Police in India’s northern Rajasthan state are investigating messages between three staffers at a private hospital in which they allegedly talked about refusing to attend Muslim coronavirus patients.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced this weekend that he is considering withdrawing his nation from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), the U.N. agency accused of helping China cover up the extent of the coronavirus pandemic.
Activists defaced and scaled Abraham Lincoln’s statue in Parliament Square, London, at a Black Lives Matter rally held in defiance of Britain’s anti-coronavirus regulations.
