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People sunbathe around the fountains in trafalgar Square in central London on September 18, 2020, as the fine weather in the south of England continues. (AFP)

Europe’s big cities announce tighter restrictions as COVID-19 cases soar

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was inevitable that the country would see a second wave of the coronavirus

President Martin Vizcarra (left) arriving to give a statement in Congress where he is facing an impeachment trial, in Lima on September 18, 2020. - Vizcarra remained defiant Friday as Peru's congress began an impeachment debate ahead of a vote that analysts say he is expected to survive as his opponents in congress are likely to fall short of the votes needed to oust him. Vizcarra, in power since 2018, came under fire after leaked audio recordings in which he is heard telling aides to hide details from congressional investigators of his office's controversial hiring of a popular singer as a paid cultural advisor. (AFP)

Peru president Vizcarra survives impeachment vote amid virus turmoil

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The political turmoil rocking Peru has briefly distracted attention from the pandemic, which has left hundreds of thousands sick

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. (AFP)

US court turns down challenge to Trump's H-1B visa ban

Lanzhou's health commission said Friday that sheep, cattle and pigs were most commonly involved in the spread of the bacteria. (Representationla Image: AFP)

Thousands test positive for bacterial disease after China lab leak

Amy Dorris told Britain's The Guardian that Trump sexually assaulted her in his VIP suite at the US Open tennis tournament in New York -- claims he denied via his lawyers.(Image: Twitter@IndefiniteHD)

Former model alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her

Keith Krach (right), US Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, talked with Taiwan officials after landing at the Sungshan airport in Taipei on September 17, 2020. A top US diplomat landed in Taiwan on September 17, the highest-ranking State Department official to visit in 40 years, in a further sign of Washington's willingness to defy China and its campaign to isolate the self-ruled island. (Image: Twitter/@iingwen)

China begins military drills amid US envoy's second high-level visit to Taiwan

Both the incidents of passengers flying with COVID-positive certificates to Dubai from India on Air India Express flights happened during the last couple of weeks, the officials noted.(Representational Image: PTI)

Dubai suspends Air India flights for bringing COVID-positive passengers

The new test, based on the design of a DNA test developed by professor Christofer Toumazou at Imperial College London, received approval for clinical use at the end of April after successful trials.

UK’s one hour rapid test gives highly accurate COVID-19 results: Lancet study

People wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus visit the Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

South Korea to fine church for causing country’s largest virus cluster

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is introduced during the keynote address for the State Bar of New Mexico's annual meeting in Pojoaque, N.M. The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP File)

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist icon, dies at 87

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IPL 2020

Bad day for Virat Kohli with RCB loss to KXIP and two dropped catches

After dropping two catches, RCB skipper Virat Kohli, undoubtedly one of the best when it comes to run-chasing, failed with the bat, managing just a run off five balls before he was caught off a Sheldon Cottrell delivery. (Photo | PTI)

KL Rahul beats Sachin’s 'fastest 2,000 runs' as he scores top IPL score by an Indian

KXIP skipper KL Rahul’s 132, off just 69 deliveries, is the highest score built up by an Indian player in an IPL innings. (Photo | PTI)

Cricketer-commentator Dean Jones dies of cardiac arrest in Mumbai hotel

Dean Jones played 52 Tests and 164 ODIs for Australia and was part of the 1987 World Cup winning team. (Photo | AFP)

KXIP posts 206/3 with skipper KL Rahul smashing an unbeaten 132 against RCB

Kings XI Punjab Captain KL Rahul scored 132 off 69 balls, that was laced with 14 boundaries and seven sixes. (Photo | PTI)

Full Scorecard Kings XI Punjab VS Royal Challengers Bangalore Match 6, Kings XI Punjab win by 97 runs, DREAM11 IPL 2020, T-20 Match

Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Match 6, DREAM11 IPL 2020, T-20 Match

Will Dhoni find his form before the CSK vs Delhi game Friday?

"MS is one of the players that hasn’t played much cricket in the last year-and-a-half. Everyone expects MS to come out and do what he has done in the past. It doesn’t just happen, it takes a bit of work,” CSK Coach Stephen Fleming said ahead of Friday’s IPL match against Delhi Capitals. (Photo | PTI)

Mumbai breaks UAE jinx in IPL with win led by skipper Rohit’s 80

Mumbai Indians player Jasprit Bumra celebrates the wicket of Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Eoin Morgan with his teammates during IPL 2020 cricket match, at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, in Abu Dhabi of United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. (Photo | PTI)

Full Scorecard Kolkata Knight Riders VS Mumbai Indians Match 5, Mumbai Indians win by 49 runs, DREAM11 IPL 2020, T-20 Match

KKR VS MI Match 5, DREAM11 IPL 2020, T-20 Match

Rohit gives KKR a run for their money, powers Mumbai Indians to 195/5

Rohit got going after smashing pacer Pat Cummins (0/49) for two sixes, both his trademark pull-shots. (Photo | PTI)

Dew will play significant role in which way a match will go, says Finch

“The dew will play a big part in the tournament. The last three games, the game at Sharjah and our game in Dubai, there was more dew than expected,” said RCB opener Aaron Finch, who is playing in the IPL after two seasons, having missed last year’s edition to prepare for the ODI World Cup. (Photo | PTI)

Gallery

Saudi’s annual Hajj pilgrimage will start this Wednesday amid growing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)

This year, Hajj pilgrims to be given sterilised pebbles

This year, Hajj pilgrims to be given sterilised pebbles

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Saudi’s annual Hajj pilgrimage will start this Wednesday amid growing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)

This year, Hajj pilgrims to be given sterilised pebbles

The protests in Portland have drawn international attention to race relations in the USA. The standoff between federal agents and protesters turned into a violent fight at night on Thursday. (AP)

In Pictures| Standoff with federal agents continues in Portland

This cute group of penguins are making most of Singapore city’s zoo while it’s locked down for public. (Handout photo released by Wildlife Reserves Singapore)

For these penguins in Singapore’s city zoo, lockdown is flippin' fun

A man walks by Teatro Marcello in Rome which is unsually empty due to coronavirus epidemic(AP)

Coronavirus fear leaves streets of Rome empty

Neighbours

This handout photograph taken on February 1, 2020 and released by Zhang Hai, shows medical workers preparing to take away the body of Zhang Lifa, the father of Zhang Hai, after he died from the COVID-19 coronavirus in a hospital in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. - Some families accuse the Wuhan and Hubei provincial governments of concealing the outbreak when it first emerged there late last year, failing to alert the public, and bungling the response, allowing Covid-19 to explode out of control. (AFP)

Families of virus victims accuse China of blocking COVID lawsuits

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (left) and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. (AFP)

Sri Lanka's proposed Constitution Amendment faces resistance within ruling party

US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (Photo: AP)

US special envoy for Afghan talks Zalmay Khalilzad in India today

Sri Lankan navy plugs fuel leak on fire-stricken oil tanker Vaccine race: China inoculates thousands before trials are completed UN council members urge Myanmar to stop clashes in Rakhine state

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Asia

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton, left, poses as he is turned over to the Bureau of Immigration at the Joint US Military Assistance Group detention facility in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon city, Philippines on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The Philippine president recently pardoned Pemberton in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony. (AP)

Philippines deports US Marine pardoned for transgender killing

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, receives flowers from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga after Suga was elected as new head of Japan's ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election, in Tokyo. (AP)

Shinzo Abe's entire cabinet resigns as Suga set to become Japan's new PM

Nasal swab sample is collected from Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, right, at a testing site in Hong Kong Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Hong Kong began a voluntary mass-testing program for coronavirus Tuesday as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city's third outbreak of the disease. (HKGIS via AP)

Hongkongers steer clear of China's mass coronavirus testing plans

A vendor wearing a face mask holds an umbrella as she stands before a food stall at a market in Seoul. (AFP)

South Korea to temporary ease virus curbs in Seoul ahead of festival

Travel restrictions have eviscerated the tourism-reliant economy, while Thais have founded themselves stuck due to quarantine requirements in other countries (Twitter@KenyaShipper)

Thailand's plane cafes are helping customers pretend they are in the sky

Relatives of 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea by Chinese authorities, are escorted by lawmakers and their assistants as they head to attend a press conference in Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. They called for their family members to be returned to the territory, saying their legal rights were being violated. (AP)

China brands Hong Kong citizens held at sea 'separatists'

A worker disinfects a vehicle while a civilian has his temperature checked as a precaution against the new coronavirus in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea has issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent COVID-19 outbreak: US

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, a Chinese People's Liberation Army H-6 bomber is seen flying near the Taiwan air defense identification zone, ADIZ, near Taiwan on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. The second high-level U.S. envoy to visit Taiwan in two months began a day of closed-door meetings Friday as China conducted military drills near the Taiwan Strait after threatening retaliation. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

Taiwan scrambles jets for second day as Chinese fighter jets buzz island

Middle East

President Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Friday. (AFP)

Trump announces 'normal ties' between Israel and Bahrain

U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader sign a peace agreement between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar. The Taliban say the long-awaited peace talks with the negotiating team selected by the Afghan government are to begin on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar. The announcement on Sept. 10, came in a statement from the Taliban in Qatar, where the insurgents maintain a political office, and also as an announcement from Qatar's foreign ministry. (AP File)

Taliban, Afghan government to restart peace talks in Doha

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu(L), US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan(R)smile as they participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates arrived September 15, 2020 at the White House to sign historic accords normalizing ties between the Jewish and Arab states. (AFP)

A new Mideast: Israel signs pacts with UAE, Bahrain in White House ceremony

Kerala nurse, a corona warrior in Oman, succumbs to COVID Netanyahu announces second nationwide lockdown as cases surge in Israel Young wrestler's execution in Iran draws shock and condemnation

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America

A man and woman, estimated to be in their late teens or early 20s, were killed. (Image: Twitter/@hunter_jonathan)

Mass shooting in Rochester leaves 2 dead, 14 wounded

Mill Creek Hotshots set a backfire to protect homes during the Bobcat Fire on September 13, 2020 in Arcadia, California. California wildfires that have already incinerated a record 2.3 million acres this year and are expected to continue till December. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to about 32,000 acres and is only 6% contained. (AFP)

Trump and Harris head for California as wildfires take campaign focus

Search and rescue personnel from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office look for the possible remains of a missing elderly resident in a mobile home park on September 11, 2020 in Ashland, Oregon. Hundreds of homes in Ashland and nearby towns have been lost due to wildfire. (AFP)

Search on for bodies in charred path of California wildfires

Image provided by NOAA shows the formation of Tropical Storm Sally. Tropical Storm Sally has formed off south Florida, becoming the earliest 18th-named tropical storm on record in a busy Atlantic hurricane season. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Paulette rolls toward Bermuda in US as Sally threatens Gulf Coast

Nora Dannehy, a federal prosecutor who was helping lead the investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has resigned from the Justice Department. (AP)

US prosecutor looking into origins of Trump-Russia probe resigns

A health-care worker talks with people outside a COVID-19 testing clinic in Montreal, Monday, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. (AP)

Canada reports zero COVID-19 deaths for the first time since March

Firefighters monitor a controlled burn along Nacimiento-Fergusson Road to help contain the Dolan Fire near Big Sur, California. (AP)

A change in weather raises hope as dozens still missing in Oregon

Signs are held up showing Breonna Taylor during a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. The city of Louisville will pay several million dollars to the mother of Breonna Taylor and install police reforms as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from Taylor's family, The Associated Press has learned. (AP)

Louisville to pay $12 million settlement over Breonna Taylor's death

Europe

Ksenia Fadeyeva, 28, the head of Alexei Navalny's Tomsk headquarters and the city council candidate in September 13 regional elections, distributes campaign leaflets in the Siberian city of Tomsk on September 7, 2020. (AFP)

Two Navalny allies win vote in Russian city where he was poisoned

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

French, Swedish labs also confirm Navalny’s Novichok poisoning: Germany

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says he's breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: "Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still can't do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day." (Navalny instagram via AP)

'Poisoned' Putin critic Navalny shares hospital photo of himself

Satellite data shows smoke from US fires has reached as far as Europe Navalny aides say Novichok found on water bottle in hotel room Russia to supply 100 million doses of virus vaccine to Hyderabad-based drug company

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Africa

Mohamed's office announced late Thursday the appointment of Mohamed Hussein Roble, a Swedish-trained civil engineer and political neophyte.Image: Twitter/@AbikarDr)

Somalia names new PM, announces plan for national elections

A dead elephant is seen in Hwange National park, Zimbabwe, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. A spokesman for Zimbabwe's national parks said on Wednesday, Sept. 2 the number of elephants dying in the country's west from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22 and more deaths are expected. (AP)

Zimbabwe investigating deaths of 22 elephants, more expected

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaking during a televised announcement from Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. (AFP)

Venezuela says 'American spy' captured near oil refineries

Women employed by Floch Depollution collect contaminated algae on the Bois de Amourettes beach, Mauritius, on September 2, 2020. - The second phase of cleaning consists of collecting contaminated algae on the coast and placing barriers to collect any oil that the solid waste can spill back into the sea. The bulk carrier MV Wakashio crashed into a reef last month spewing more than 1,000 tonnes of oil into pristine waters that are home to mangrove forests and endangered species. (AFP)

Mauritius oil spill: Ship operator to pay $9.4 million to restore marine environment

Customers have their nails done near the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday Sept. 16, 2020. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled to address the nation later in the day, as case numbers and death from Covid-19 hit the lowest in months. (AP)

South Africa says 12 million citizens 'probably' had coronavirus

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, ousted as president of Mali last month in a military coup, has flown to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment, the new junta said on September 5, 2020. Family and airport sources confirmed that Keita, who left hospital on September 3, 2020 after treatment for a mini-stroke, had flown out of the country on September 5, 2020. (AFP)

Ousted Mali president Keita leaves country as transition talks begin

The balloting was held amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the commission said it took all necessary measures so voters could cast their ballots. (AFP)

Egypt to prosecute some 54 million who boycotted elections due to pandemic

Australia and New Zealand

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern. (Image:Facebook/Jacinda Ardern)

New Zealand sees first case-free day in five weeks

Protesters confront police at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on September 5, 2020, during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the state's strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Australia's Melbourne to remain in lockdown despite protests

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, second right, addresses the media on the first day of her election campaign in Rotorua, New Zealand, Monday, Sept 7. 2020. Ardern said that her government will create a new public holiday to celebrate the Maori New Year if it is reelected next month. (AP)

New Zealand government to honour Maori New Year if reelected

New Zealand to lift virus curbs in most of country on September 21 Anti-lockdown protests erupt in Australia just as cases start to come down Antarctica is still free of coronavirus. Can it stay that way?

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