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An initial epidemiological survey shows the coronavirus strain detected at the Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijing came from Europe, a report in state-run Global Times said.

The highest court in the country left the door open for Trump to attempt again to rescind the program, ruling only that the administration had not met a procedural requirement and its actions were "arbitrary and capricious" under a federal law called the...

Kathryn Wheelbarger, who is highly regarded by national security experts in Trump's Republican Party and among Democrats, had been named by the White House on Feb. 13 to a senior intelligence position at the Department of Defense.

New York City will begin phase two of reopening on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday, citing continued improvements in coronavirus data.

The Chamber said the pandemic had clearly slowed progress for both governments, but there were reasons to be hopeful.

China is not the only country that has been given a sobering lesson in the persistence and wiliness of the coronavirus.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia welcomed contacts between the two nations to de-escalate the situation.

The World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature, in its report, called for urgent global action to address the key drivers which will cause future zoonotic disease outbreaks.

The announcement regarding body cameras overturns a policy that gave the New York Police Department-wide discretion on when it made the videos public.

Scientists believe the drug baricitinib could help suppress a potentially lethal immune response to COVID-19 called "cytokine storm" and reduce COVID-19's ability to reproduce in infected cells.

Several celebrities in Iran paid homage to her, including film director Tahmineh Milani who said she was unaware Marjan was sympathetic to the People's Mujahedin.

Iran will reimpose restrictions to stem a surge in coronavirus cases if health regulations are not observed, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday.

The mass protests that followed Floyd’s killing while in police custody, combined with the coronavirus pandemic and the recession, have left many Americans uncertain about the future.

In the report, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council that several items in US seizures of weapons and related materiel in November 2019 and February 2020 were "of Iranian origin".

Navy units and divers from the civil protection services are continuing to search the area for other possible victims.

Employees in China can volunteer to take one of two vaccine candidates being developed by affiliates of state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), said the newspaper, citing a written notice sent to the state-owned companies.