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New York state reported its lowest number of daily coronavirus deaths in weeks in what governor Andrew Cuomo described Saturday as a critical benchmark. ​​The daily death tally was 84 after a peak of 799 on April 8. Reducing the state's daily death count to fewer than 100 seemed almost impossible several weeks ago, the Democratic governor said. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XkmLm0

New York state reported its lowest number of daily coronavirus deaths in weeks in what governor Andrew Cuomo described Saturday as a critical benchmark. ​​The daily death tally was 84 after a peak of 799 on April 8. Reducing the state's daily death count to fewer than 100 seemed almost impossible several weeks ago, the Democratic governor said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XkmLm0

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead the daily coronavirus news conference on Sunday as the future of his senior adviser Dominic Cummings, who is under pressure over a journey made during the lockdown, hangs in the balance. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XsN35p

A New York Times front page filled start to finish with one-line obituaries in small print of a thousand victims of the coronavirus pandemic greeted readers on Sunday, as the United States lurched towards the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2zoH61q

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday welcomed the announcement by the Taliban and the Afghanistan government of a ceasefire to enable the Afghan people to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in peace, urging all parties concerned to seize this opportunity and embrace an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2LV9Mls

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday welcomed the announcement by the Taliban and the Afghanistan government of a ceasefire to enable the Afghan people to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in peace, urging all parties concerned to seize this opportunity and embrace an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2LV9Mls

Nepal reported 19 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the total number infections in the country to 603. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2AXvnrg

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Chinese Prez Xi Jinping said China's annual economic growth target could have been set around 6% had the new coronavirus epidemic not happened, as per state media. The Chinese govt on Friday omitted a GDP growth target for 2020 in its yearly work report unveiled at the start of the annual meeting of parliament, citing uncertainties brought on by the epidemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gbycVE

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Sunday said any lawsuits brought against China over the Covid-19 have “zero factual basis in law or international precedence”. Wang said that China was a victim of the global pandemic alongside other countries and had assisted others too. He said in addition to coronavirus,"...a political virus is also spreading in the US." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2AOAuK7

A preliminary report on the Pakistan International Airlines plane crash, in which 97 people were killed, has raised serious questions about the pilot's handling of the aircraft and what prevented the crew in the cockpit from informing the air traffic controllers about the troubles. Investigators are trying to find out if the crash is attributable to a pilot error or a technical glitch. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3efpaVM

The agency says 10,213 of them have recovered and been released from quarantine. It says 17 of the 25 new patients were locally infected while the rest eight came from overseas. South Korea eased much of its strict social distancing rules in early May before it saw a sudden uptick in the number of cases associated with nightclubs in Seoul's Itaewon entertainment district. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WYhim0

The faithful were preparing for worship from Asia to Europe, where the exit from virus restrictions accelerated with Spain announcing a resumption of foreign tourism and its top football league. But the disease continued its surge in large parts of South America, with the death toll in Brazil passing 22,000 and infections topping 347,000, the world's second-highest caseload. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WXjCth

Claims promoted by the Trump administration that the global coronavirus pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the central Chinese city are a “pure fabrication," the institute's director said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3egTi30

The world's largest Muslim-majority nation, with more than 240 million people, has reported nearly 22,000 infections and 1,350 fatalities, the most in Southeast Asia. It means no congregational prayers at mosques and open fields, no family reunions, no relatives bearing gifts for children. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2A0IZBE

In early May, Kim quelled intense rumors about his health by attending a ceremony marking the completion of a fertilizer factory in his first public activities in 20 days. But he hadn't again made any follow-up public appearance in about another 20 days until the state news agency said on Sunday that he led a meeting of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cZuixe

President Donald Trump played golf at one of his courses Saturday during the Memorial Day weekend as he urged US states to reopen after coronavirus-related lockdowns. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36p8SqV

President Donald Trump played golf at one of his courses Saturday during the Memorial Day weekend as he urged US states to reopen after coronavirus-related lockdowns. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36p8SqV

Instead of the articles, photographs or graphics that normally appear on the front page of The New York Times, on Sunday, there is just a list: a long, solemn list of people whose lives were lost to the coronavirus pandemic. As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States approaches 100,000, a number expected to be reached in the coming days, editors at the Times have been planning how to mark the grim milestone. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XDjCxZ

Joe Biden won the Democratic Party of Hawaii's party-run presidential primary on Saturday, which was delayed by more than a month because of the coronavirus. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ekmkiB

In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But Elon Musk's SpaceX defied expectations -- and on Wednesday hopes to make history by ferrying two NASA astronauts into space, the first crewed flight from US soil in nine long years. US President Donald Trump will be among the spectators at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to witness the launch. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36xNu2M