The US needs it for all of the epidemiological work that needs to be done to protect Americans today and tomorrow, Pompeo asserted.

The decision by close Trump ally Attorney General Bill Barr effectively reversed 18 months of work by the department and FBI under Barr's predecessors.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Trump, who this week made his first trip out of Washington in more than a month, relies on a federal supply of coronavirus tests so that he can maintain a more traditional schedule, while Biden has been isolating at home for nearly two months.

The annual meeting between Indus Commissioners was postponed after New Delhi proposed deferment of consultations due to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown.

Luke Alexander Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, were among 17 people captured by the Venezuelan military.

Italy's total death toll from COVID-19 since its outbreak came to light on February 21 now stands at 30,201. Only the United States and Britain have seen more deaths from the virus.

Turkey formally charged Turkish private jet operator MNG Jet's four pilots and a executive with 'migrant smuggling', a crime carrying a maximum sentence of eight years in jail.

The move by US to give gree cards to foreign nurses and doctors is likely to benefit a large number of Indian professionals.

More than 145,000 cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported so far, with 10,222 added in the last 24 hours.

Rajvinder Singh, owner of the popular Apna Bazaar in California's Pleasanton, had allegedly increased the prices of grocery items during Covid-19.

The 20.5 million jobs lost in April fell disproportionately on African Americans, Latinos, low-wage workers and people with no college education.

A government tally showed 10,669 new cases over the last 24 hours, fewer than Thursday's record of 11,231 bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 187,859.

Mike Pompeo said he has seen a significant amount of evidence that suggests that the lab was underperforming, that there were security risks at the lab and that the virus could well have emanated from there.

Roughly 65 per cent or 626 of the total 970 recoveries in the UK have been reported in its overseas territories or other dependent islands and territories, even as they account for a mere 0.6 per cent of the total recorded cases.

Each year a variety of events, including bird watching are held across the globe to raise awareness on World Migratory Bird Day observed on May 9.

Merkel emphasized the special importance of US support for Germany after WW2 and the ties between the two countries that developed after, a government spokesperson said.

President Trump, who had publicly attacked the case against Flynn and has frequently castigated the FBI, said he was "very happy" for his former aide.

China’s total number of Covid-19 cases now stands at 82,887, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,633, the national health authority said.

Worldwide, the virus has infected at least 3.9 million people and killed more than 270,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University based on data reported by governments.

The first phase of easing lockdown began as the government announced removing restrictions by allowing more business to open and operate from dawn to 5pm.

"We will certainly celebrate this anniversary extensively and solemnly, as usual," Vladimir Putin said, pledging that Russia would hold its traditional Red Square military parade and commemorative processions at a later date.

The US-based rights group, citing a source with ties to the royal family, said Prince Faisal bin Abdullah, a son of late monarch King Abdullah, was detained by security forces on March 27 while self-isolating due to the coronavirus pandemic at a family compound northeast of the capital Riyadh.

Celebrations of this year's Victory Day were muted after the Kremlin grudgingly agreed to postpone plans for a grand parade with world leaders due to coronavirus

President Xi Jinping's comments came as China faced global criticism for its initial inaction to act against the novel coronavirus

Russia's coronavirus taskforce said that 104 people had died overnight, bringing the national death toll to 1,827.

Overall deaths rose to 26,478 from 26,299 on Friday and the number of diagnosed cases rose to 223,578 from 222,857 the day before, the ministry said.

China has faced criticism both at home and abroad for downplaying the coronavirus and concealing information about the outbreak when it first emerged in the central city of Wuhan in December.

Officials reported 16 more have died from the disease, taking the total number of death to 959, while 2,607 have recovered.

Police opened fire after some among the around 300 protesters threw stones and started firing guns and trying to enter the governor's house, said Mohammad Arif Aber, a spokesman for the provincial governor of Ghor.

Latest reports have shown Khuzestan red along with a few other provinces, including the capital Tehran and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom, where Iran reported its first cases in February.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Sobhita's statement comes after a series of her behind-the-scenes pictures from the shoot were surfaced online.