Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday lifted targeted lockdown on two major regions in the country citing improved testing for the coronavirus across the country. In the over half-an-hour address...

Sixteen people, including a police officer, are dead in Nova Scotia, Canada, following the worst shooting rampage in Canadian history, police have said. The suspect, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51,...

New York’s daily coronavirus deaths dropped to 540, the lowest in almost two weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. But he warned that the recent improvement should be viewed with some caution,...

Smokers are 14 times more likely to contract coronavirus compared with those who do not smoke, the head of a Turkish anti-addiction group told Anadolu Agency. Professor Mucahit Ozturk, president of anti-addiction...

Saudi Arabia has announced Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr prayers will take place at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. This was disclosed by Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest...

US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he is halting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The US president said funding would be...

Former US presidential hopeful, Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden’s campaign to take on Donald Trump in November’s election. Senator Sanders pulled out of the contest to be the Democratic...

Israel’s former Chief Rabbi, Eliahou Bakshi-Doron, died on Sunday at the age of 79 from the Coronavirus, COVID-19. The former rabbi was known for promoting religious dialogue. He served as the Chief...

New coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 2,000 on Friday, the highest daily tally to date. The total confirmed dead from the virus in the U.S. is now 18,586, just behind Italy, which at 18,849...

Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his presidential campaign on Wednesday. His exit clears Joe Biden’s path to the Democratic nomination and a showdown with President Donald Trump in November. Bernie...

Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, has declared a one-month state of emergency in response to the rapidly increasing number of Coronavirus infections in big cities of the country. The Prime Minister...

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, Downing Street has said. Boris Johnson was admitted to St Thomas’...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests after showing persistent symptoms of Coronavirus 10 days after testing positive for it. Johnson’s office said he was hospitalized...

China has sold nearly four billion masks to foreign countries since March to curb Coronavirus spread, officials said Sunday. Despite Chinese cases dwindling, Beijing has encouraged factories to increase...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Sunday pardoned more than 5,000 prisoners to prevent the new coronavirus from contaminating Moroccan prisons, the Justice Ministry announced. The monarch “granted a pardon...

President Donald Trump on Saturday warned that America’s ‘toughest week’ of the coronavirus crisis is coming , predicting that there will be deaths as the number of Covid-19 cases surges...

French police have arrested three Sudanese nationals in a terror probe after a stabbing spree in the southeast left two people dead, investigators said on Sunday. A 33-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker...

There are now more than  6,700 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Africa. This is according to the latest data by the Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa. The breakdown shows that...

There are now more than 3,200 confirmed cases of coronavirus across Africa. Data also shows that 134 people have died of the virus on the continent. This is according to the latest data by the Africa Center...

The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the United States is now more than 104,000 as at Saturday morning. This is according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. The tally...