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The virtual meeting, hosted by Britain, aims to raise $7.4 billion for immunisation programmes stalled by the pandemic, and launch a new fundraising drive to support potential COVID-19 vaccines.

The admission comes in a week where the government has faced criticism by a statistics watchdog over incomplete test data, pressure over turnaround times for test results and teething issues with a new test and trace programme.

Bayer inherited this and other lawsuits two years ago as a result of its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto.

Trump, who has gone against the advice of many medical authorities in promoting the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a guard against catching Covid-19, has ended the 'regimen safely and without side effects'.

Tensions between Washington and Beijing have spiked, as Trump and his aides have complained about China's early handling of the coronavirus outbreak and its treatment of Hong Kong.

The report says non-white people, older people, males and others with underlying conditions are more likely to die of the virus. The fact that became the starting point for the inquiry is now presented as its conclusion.

The British Prime Minister supported the right to protest, in a lawful and socially-distanced way, after the killing of George Floyd bu police in the United States stirred widespread anger.

Peaceful protesters just outside the White House gates were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets. It was all, apparently, so Trump could visit the church.

According to the scientists, including those from Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, the findings shed light on how the drug causes serious effects on heart rhythms.

Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, urged China to respect norms and use diplomacy and existing mechanisms to resolve its border questions with India.

George Floyd's brother added that he called Joe Biden. 'I asked Vice President Biden -- I never had to beg a man before -- but I asked him, could he please, please get justice for my brother,' he said.

US President Donald Trump said he would postpone a G7 summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India.

Countries in Latin America are bracing for difficult weeks ahead, especially Brazil, where the poor have been hit particularly hard.

The pandemic is spreading across Brazil under a cloud of confrontation, as governors and mayors implement restrictive measures while President Jair Bolsonaro, who has pinned his hopes of re-election on a booming economy, has berated them for imposing what...

President Donald Trump said Friday he was severing US ties with the WHO, accusing it of failing to do enough to combat the initial spread of the virus.

Democrats in the state's House of Representatives said Andrew Lewis declined for several days to publicly disclose his COVID-19 diagnosis.