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SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk's company. With test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken poised to take over manual control if necessary, the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked automatically, no assistance needed. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2MhlVRW

The new law under which China can establish the presence of its security forces in Hong Kong for the first-time evoked strong protests from thousands of local people. The protests were expected to be intensified in the coming weeks. China says the new law is aimed at throttling secession, subversion, terrorism, foreign interference or activities that threaten national security. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dndX5u

"Connected by the Indian Ocean, united by the Indian Samosa! Looks delicious, PM @ScottMorrisonMP! Once we achieve a decisive victory against COVID-19, we will enjoy the Samosas together. Looking forward to our video meet on the 4th," the Prime Minister said in a tweet. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eBCdRS

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Another night of unrest in every corner of the country left charred and shattered landscapes in dozens of American cities Sunday as years of festering frustrations over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of police boiled over in expressions of rage met with tear gas and rubber bullets. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZQzU9i

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Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, reopened on Sunday after being closed for over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36LW5ih

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US President Donald Trump wants to reformat G7, the group of seven advanced economies in the world, to make it a G10 or G11 that would include India, Australia, South Korea, and Russia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZUkQrc

Curfews were imposed in major US cities Saturday as clashes over police brutality escalated across America with demonstrators ignoring warnings from President Trump that his govt would stop the violent protests "cold." Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta were among two dozen cities ordering people to stay indoors overnight as more states called in National Guard soldiers to help control the civil unrest from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ckAw9Q

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Curfews were imposed in major US cities Saturday as clashes over police brutality escalated across America with demonstrators ignoring warnings from President Trump that his govt would stop the violent protests "cold." Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta were among two dozen cities ordering people to stay indoors overnight as more states called in National Guard soldiers to help control the civil unrest from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ckAw9Q

US President Donald Trump wants to reformat G7, the group of seven advanced economies in the world, to make it a G10 or G11 that would include India, Australia, South Korea, and Russia. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36IGW1l

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The massive protests sweeping across U.S. cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge crowds will lead to a new surge in cases of the coronavirus. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eyjVk9

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Floyd died on Monday in Minnesota after a police officer put his knee on Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes. The officer was arrested on Friday and charged with third-degree murder. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XNQqEb

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The country has officially logged 1,769,776 cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, the tracker by the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Sunday). from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3etGgzo

As recently as 2017, an understanding between Washington and Beijing allowed the United Nations on three occasions -- involving separate sets of economic sanctions -- to project international unity in the face of the North Korean nuclear threat. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ciy2sn

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Drugmakers sprinting to deliver potential Covid-19 vaccines say they're facing a new hurdle: declining infection rates that could make it hard to test their shots. If the disease ebbs further in some regions, not enough people will be exposed to the coronavirus to make studies possible. Researchers may have to consider deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with the virus. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dgpALv

The white Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck as he begged for air was arrested on Friday and charged with murder, and crowds broke overnight curfews imposed to try to stem violent protests over police killings of African Americans that have spread to cities across the US. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XgyVxy

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The white Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck as he begged for air was arrested on Friday and charged with murder, and crowds broke overnight curfews imposed to try to stem violent protests over police killings of African Americans that have spread to cities across the US. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XgyVxy

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The Shandong's commissioning last year by Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored the country's rise as a regional naval power at a time of tensions with the US and others over trade, Taiwan and the South China Sea. It is the second Chinese aircraft carrier to enter service after the Liaoning, which was originally purchased as a hulk from Ukraine and entirely refurbished. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gxJSlQ

In his proclamation, announced on Friday, POTUS stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is engaged in a wide‑ranging and heavily resourced campaign to acquire sensitive US technologies and intellectual property, in part to bolster the modernization and capability of its military. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eyaHV6

New York City, the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, will begin reopening in a phased manner on June 8, bringing about 4,000,000 employees back to work, Governor Andrew Cuomo has said. "Remember that reopening does not mean we're going back to the way things were...It is reopening to a new normal," governor Andrew Cuomo has said. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TVPtc6

Researchers conducted genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus and its similar variants in animals, and confirmed that its closest relative is a coronavirus that infects bats. In the study they said the ability of the virus, SARS-CoV-2 to infect humans was gained by exchanging a critical gene fragment from a coronavirus that infects a scaly mammal called a pangolin. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XfyV0z

Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XFOYnq

In his proclamation, announced on Friday, POTUS stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is engaged in a wide‑ranging and heavily resourced campaign to acquire sensitive US technologies and intellectual property, in part to bolster the modernization and capability of its military. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eyaHV6

Trump's announcement came amidst escalating confrontation between the US and China over trade, the origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Beijing's security crackdown in Hong Kong and the communist giant's aggressive military moves in the disputed South China Sea. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36G0Gme

Trump's announcement came amidst escalating confrontation between the US and China over trade, the origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Beijing's security crackdown in Hong Kong and the communist giant's aggressive military moves in the disputed South China Sea. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36G0Gme

Restaurants in Los Angeles county -- which has suffered more than half of California's virus deaths -- will be allowed to offer dine-in services with capacity limited to 60 per cent. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eyrnMl

The epicenter of the South American coronavirus outbreak, Brazil saw 1,124 deaths in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said. It also had a record number of new cases -- 26,928 in one day -- bringing the total number of infections to 465,166. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3euQBuY

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an in-person summit of G7 leaders that US President Donald Trump has suggested he will host despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the Politico website quoted her spokesman as saying Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xe2xLO

The United States recorded 1,225 coronavirus deaths on Friday, bringing its total to 102,798 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TTM6SR

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an in-person summit of G7 leaders that US President Donald Trump has suggested he will host despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the Politico website quoted her spokesman as saying Friday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xe2xLO

Thousands of protesters stormed the perimeter of Barclays Center in New York as protests spread across the United States over the killing of George Floyd, a Minneapolis black man who died after being pinned by the neck under a white police officer's knee. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TPh7aI

SpaceX's "Demo-2" mission from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this weekend will be the first flight with astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule built by entrepreneur Elon Musk's commercial space company. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Bdpjed

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Twitter on Friday flagged a post by US President Donald Trump on the unrest in Minneapolis as 'glorifying violence', saying the tweet violated its rules but would not be removed. ​​The president had tweeted that the military was being sent in to the embattled midwestern city as authorities there struggle to control unrest over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2MbIQy6

"In the holy chalice, it isn't bread and wine. It is the body and blood of Christ," said the Rev. Georgios Milkas, a theologian in the northern city of Thessaloniki. "And there is not a shred of suspicion of transmitting this virus, this disease, as in the holy chalice there is the Son and the Word of God." This is proven, he said, through "the experience of centuries." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2AfWOfF

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Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been ousted from his ethnic Malay political party in the latest twist of a power struggle with his successor, but he has vowed to challenge the move. ​​​​The 94-year-old Mahathir, along with his son and three other senior members, were expelled from the Bersatu party on Thursday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gxGAPn

The Ministry of National Health Services reported that 25,309 cases were diagnosed in Sindh, 22,964 in Punjab, 8,842 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 3,928 in Balochistan, 2,100 in Islamabad, 658 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 227 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. On the positive side, the ministry said, 22,305 patients have been recovered so far from the virus. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dfuvMH

"We must avoid it. The pandemic has demonstrated our fragility. Despite all the technological and scientific advances of recent decades, we are in an unprecedented human crisis, because of a microscopic virus," the UN Secretary General said on Thursday to the high-level event on Financing For Development. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cgjUzQ