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Senators Urge Trump to Temporarily Suspend H-1B, Other Work Visas as Unemployment Reaches All Time High

The H-1B work visa for foreign technology professionals is highly popular among Indians and a large number of Indians also opt for the EB-5 investors visa.




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Georgia Police Arrest Two for Shooting Death of Unarmed Black Man

The two white men were identified by police as Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Gregory McMichael, 64, who both live in Brunswick.




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US Companies Got Emergency Govt Loans Despite Having Months of Cash

Some of the companies that took loans said publicly they were financially secure, with some seeing increased demand for their products around the time they asked for the aid.




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Caught on Video, NYPD Social Distancing Patrols Turn Violent

One newly surfaced video of social distancing enforcement gone wrong in New York City shows a police officer running at a black man and throwing him to the ground for mouthing off.




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'The Govt is Failing Us': Laid-off Americans Struggle in Coronavirus Crisis

Alejandra has not heard anything from the state -- though she has gotten a fundraising email from Republican Senator Rick Scott, who set up the current unemployment system during his tenure as governor.




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Pakistani Man Shoots Wife Dead for Not Serving Him Hot Meal for Sehri, Arrested

The father of the deceased filed a complaint with the police alleging that his 19-year-old daughter was killed by her husband for failing to serve him a hot meal for Sehri in the ongoing month of Ramzan.




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World Red Cross Day 2020: All That You Need to Know

World Red Cross day is observed on May 8 on the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.




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New Study Finds No Benefit from Malaria Drug HCQ for Coronavirus Treatment

Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.




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Google Doodle Brings Back Video Game Pac Man Live Today

While PAC MAN is controlled using the arrow keys on keyboard or by clicking on the maze; Ms. PAC MAN can be controlled with the WASD keys.




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World Thalassaemia Day 2020: Date, Theme and Significance

The World Thalassaemia Day 2020 theme is '’the dawning of a new era for thalassaemia: Time for a global effort to make novel therapies accessible and affordable to patients'.




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Most Coronavirus Patients May Lose Sense of Smell by Third Day of Infection, Reveals New Study

The findings indicated that a decreased sense of smell may be an indicator of patients early in the disease course as well as those who may go on to develop more severe symptoms.




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UN, Partners Launch $6.7 bn Appeal for Vulnerable Countries to Fight Food Insecurity, Gender Violence

On March 25, the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan was launched, but with humanitarian needs continuing to rise, the updated plan is calling for $6.7 billion for the remainder of 2020.




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Solemn Europe to Mark World War II Anniversary Despite Coronavirus Damage

Large-scale parades that had been envisaged to commemorate the victory over the Nazis have been downsized as the world grapples with coronavirus crisis.




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Hotter, Humid Weather May Not Halt Spread of Covid-19: Study

Temperature and latitude are not associated with the spread of COVID-19 disease, according to a global study that found school closures and other public health measures are having a positive effect on containing the novel coronavirus.




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Partially Paralysed Chinese Woman Buried by Son Saved Alive After 3 Days in Grave

Her son was apparently fed up with having to constantly take care of her, Chinese state media reported. Rescuers said the woman was faintly calling for help as she was freed.




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'Dedicated to Health & Medicine': Father-Daughter Doctor Duo of Indian-origin Die of Covid-19 in US

Satyender Dev Khanna and daughter Priya Khanna who worked at the Clara Maass Medical Center in New Jersey succumbed to Covid-19.




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'Beverages With Less Than 40% Alcohol Are Halal, Can Drink Them': Pak Cleric's Comments Invite Ire

Controversial Pakistani cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi made the comments in an interview with an online portal when he was asked to respond to some fatwa allegedly issued by clerics in Saudi Arabia that beverages containing 40 per cent alcohol or less are halal (permissible).




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Museum, Amusement Parks & Cinemas to Reopen in Denmark from June 8 as Govt Eases Virus Restrictions

In the third phase of its reopening plan, Denmark will also increase the maximum number of people allowed to meet in public to between 30 and 50, up from a 10-person limit.




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Singapore Coronavirus Infections Touch 21,707 with 20 deaths: Health Ministry

Singapore on Friday reported 768 new cases of coronavirus, mostly among the foreign nationals living in dormitories, taking the total number of infections in the country to 21,707 with 20 deaths, the health ministry said.




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'Can Learn from Smallpox for Covid-19 Response': Remembering Humanity's Triumph Over a Virus, 40 Yrs On

On May 8, 1980, representatives of all World Health Organization (WHO) member states gathered in Geneva and officially declared that the smallpox-causing variola virus had been relegated to the history books, two centuries after the discovery of a vaccine.




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In a Town Split by a Border, Coronavirus Rules Vary From Door to Door

As European countries begin to ease their restrictions on public life at a varied pace, with some allowing businesses to reopen while others remain on lockdown, the different rules are sowing confusion for travelers.




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To Mask or Not to Mask? World Leaders Scrutinised Over Covering Face Amid Pandemic

As a consensus has emerged that masks, even homemade ones, do help -- though levels of protection vary -- political leaders have had to adjust their messaging.




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Men, Money, Plan & Guts: An Incursion Into Venezuela, Straight Out of Hollywood

The Maduro administration has blamed the attack on the US government, which has denied a connection to Goudreau or his Florida-based security company SilverCorp.




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China's New Prototype Spacecraft Returns to Earth, After Completing a Number of Assignments: Official

The spacecraft -- which was launched Tuesday -- arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of the key test.




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China Says It Supports Who-led Review Of Global Pandemic Response

Countries like France, Germany and Britain have urged greater transparency from China over its handling of coronavirus, while the US and Australia have called for international inquiry.




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Joe Biden Allies Told to Attack Trump's Stimulus as Veiled 'Cronyism'

The memo gives Biden campaign representatives new language to use in their attacks on Trump and shows a campaign honing an increasingly aggressive tone ahead of the Nov. 3 election.




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Iran Earthquake Kills at Least One, Sparks Panic in Capital

A shallow 4.6 magnitude quake hit near the city of Damavand, about 55 kilometres east of Tehran.




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Afghanistan Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Afghanistan has recorded more than 100 deaths from the virus out of more than 3,700 confirmed cases.




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Iranians Urged to Take Coronavirus 'Seriously' as Cases Stay High

Experts and officials both in Iran and abroad have cast doubts over Covid-19 figures, saying the real number of cases could be much higher than reported.




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Wuhan Market Had Role in Coronavirus Outbreak, But More Research Needed, Says WHO

It was not clear whether live animals or infected vendors or shoppers may have brought the virus into the market, a WHO expert said.




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Milan a Ticking Coronavirus 'Bomb', Viroligist Warns

Lombardy region, which has recorded more than 80,000 infections, is the epicentre of Italy's outbreak, one of the worst in Europe in terms of deaths and infections.




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South Africa to Grant 19,000 Inmates Parole to Curb Coronavirus Spread

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the parole would apply to low-risk inmates who have passed their minimum detention period.




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COVID-19: Indian-American Senator Appointed Member Of Committee to Address Washington's Economic Recovery

Senator Manka Dhingra is an Indian-American attorney and the first Sikh elected to any state legislature in the United States.




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Coronavirus Pandemic Destroys 20.5 Million US Jobs in April in Historic Collapse

The job loss according to the US Labor Department destroyed nearly all the positions created in the prior decade




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Chinese Envoy Says Open to Probe of Origins of Coronavirus: Report

China has dismissed as groundless U.S. and Australian questioning of how it had handled the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had been open and transparent, despite growing scepticism about the accuracy of its official death toll.




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'No Surprise': Trump Plays Down New Unemployment Record as US Loses 20.5 Million Jobs in April

The unprecedented collapse in April driven by the coronavirus fallout sent the unemployment rate to 14.7%, well beyond the peak hit in late 2009 during the global financial crisis.




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Melinda Gates Slams Trump Administration's Handling of Covid-19, Gives it 'D-minus'

She asserted that more money is required for testing and vaccine development in the US and across the world.




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Wuhan Market Where Covid-19 Virus May Have Started Shouldn't be Closed: WHO

WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek said live animal markets are critical to providing food and livelihoods for millions of people globally and authorities should focus on improving them rather than outlawing them.




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Canada Loses Record 2.0 Million Jobs in April, Unemployment Rate Surges to 13.0%

Most non-essential businesses have been shut since mid-March as officials urge people to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but in recent weeks, some of the 10 Canadian provinces have started to gradually reopen their economies.




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Spanish Cat Who Died of Pre-existing Respiratory Condition Tests Positive for Coronavirus

The cat, named Negrito, was the sixth feline to be detected with the disease globally. It belonged to a household in the Barcelona area where several family members had caught the virus.




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Trump Says Some White House Personnel Now Wearing Masks after Staffer Tested Positive

Trump, asked if those who serve him food would now cover their faces, told Fox News in an interview that such White House staff had already started wearing face masks.




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Coronavirus Could Kill 1,90,000 Africans and 'Smoulder' Across the Continent for Years

As many as 44 million of the continent's 1.3 billion people could be infected during the same period, the UN health agency estimated, based on its prediction model of 47 African countries.




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Coronavirus-hit Iran Holds Friday Prayers For First Time in Months

Iran urged citizens to take social distancing 'more seriously' as it announced more than 1,500 new cases of coronavirus infection.




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Trump Praises Attorney General William Barr for Dropping Michael Flynn's Case

The action on Thursday was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.




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Venezuela Incursion Carried Out by 'Rogue Group', US Govt Had Nothing to Do With it: Trump

Trump said the incursion 'was not a good attack,' carried out by a 'rogue group' that included Venezuelans and 'people from other countries.'




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Shortages of Coronavirus Test Materials 'Critical': UN Lab Chief

The tests the lab sends out use the nuclear-derived RT-PCR technology, which is now common for new coronavirus detection and can give results within hours.




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US Driving Wedge Between Communist Party, Chinese People Over Covid-19: China

US is currently weighing punitive actions against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.




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Japan Lowers Bar to Coronavirus Testing, Drops Temperature Guideline

Japan's guidelines had previously specified that those who had had a fever of 37.5 Celsius or more for four consecutive days.




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Kremlin Says Putin And Britain's Johnson Backed Renewed Dialogue in Phone Call

The Kremlin said Putin and Johnson had congratulated one another on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the allied victory in World War Two.




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Trump to Get Tested Daily For COVID-19 After Valet Tests Positive

US President Donald Trump will have to get tested for COVID-19 every day after a military aide who acts as his valet tested positive.