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Abe wants Japanese companies to build 2,000 ventilators to add to an unused stock of 4,700 already in hospitals.

China will take necessary countermeasures and the US must bear the consequences, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

In a speech after being sworn in for her second and final term in office, Tsai said relations between Taiwan and China had reached an historical turning point.

As official statistics revealed more than 11,000 coronavirus deaths in British nursing homes, the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said testing capacity has been inadequate for most of the pandemic.

Cybercrime has spiked during the epidemic with many people forced to work and shop online.

Both Netanyahu and his rival-turned-partner Benny Gantz announced their appointments for the new government, the most bloated in Israeli history with an expected 36 ministers.

individual activities such as swimming, fishing or surfing are allowed, provided social-distancing is respected, but sunbathing or staying on a beach for hours is not permitted.

Trump suspended US contributions to the WHO on April 14, accusing it of promoting China's 'disinformation' about the coronavirus outbreak and saying his administration would launch a review of the organisation.

Official estimates show some 200,000 people in Hong Kong lived in cubicles or 'cage-homes' that were 50-square feet or less.

In an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast on Thursday, Trump said he was very disappointed with China's failure to contain the disease and that the pandemic had cast a pall over his January trade deal with Beijing, which he has previously hailed...

A reporter got a close-up look at how different governments handled the developing pandemic. Some were more impressive than others.

Moore, 100, struck a chord with locked-down Britain by walking around his garden with the help of a walking frame to raise almost 33 million pounds for the National Health Service.

At least six security personnel were killed when a roadside bomb close to the border with Iran on May 9.

The president has argued that state and municipal governments have gone overboard in social isolation measures to restrict the disease's spread and that it is overly damaging to the economy.

The US issued last week a new rule limiting visas for Chinese reporters to a 90-day period, with the option for extension, that takes effect Monday.

Dozens of scientists are waiting in quarantine for the all-clear to join a year-long Arctic research mission aimed at improving the models used for forecasting climate change.