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Twitter flags Trump tweet on Minneapolis as 'glorifying violence'

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

Communion ritual unchanged in Orthodox Church despite coronavirus

"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

Malaysia's Mahathir ousted from party amid power struggle

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

Coronavirus cases in Pakistan cross 64,000-mark, death toll soars to 1,317

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

Covid-19 could cause $8.5 trillion loss in global output: UN Secretary General

"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

Fitness wearables provide early-warnings for Covid symptoms, study finds

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Covid-19 could cause $8.5 trillion loss in global output: UN Secretary General

"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 US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cgjUzQ

NSA: Russian agents have been hacking major email program

Exim is so widely used - though far less known than such commercial alternatives as Microsoft's proprietary Exchange - that some companies and government agencies that run it may still not have patched the vulnerability, said Jake Williams, president of Rendition Infosec and a former US government hacker. It took Williams about a minute of online probing on Thursday to find a potentially vulnerable government server in the UK from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XdrSWe

Chinese graduate students may be next hit by US-China tensions

The Trump administration may soon expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at US universities and impose other sanctions against Chinese officials in the latest signs of tensions between Washington and Beijing that are raging over trade, the coronavirus pandemic, human rights and the status of Hong Kong. Trump said he would make an announcement about China on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZM9dTd

NSA: Russian agents have been hacking major email program

Exim is so widely used - though far less known than such commercial alternatives as Microsoft's proprietary Exchange - that some companies and government agencies that run it may still not have patched the vulnerability, said Jake Williams, president of Rendition Infosec and a former US government hacker. It took Williams about a minute of online probing on Thursday to find a potentially vulnerable government server in the UK from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XdrSWe

Chinese graduate students may be next hit by US-China tensions

The Trump administration may soon expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at US universities and impose other sanctions against Chinese officials in the latest signs of tensions between Washington and Beijing that are raging over trade, the coronavirus pandemic, human rights and the status of Hong Kong. Trump said he would make an announcement about China on Friday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZM9dTd

South Korea reports 58 new virus cases

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun called for officials to examine working conditions at warehouses of online shopping companies, which have seen orders surge during the pandemic, and other congested workplaces where infection risks may be high. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dbHKOw

China says will ban pork imports from India to 'prevent swine fever': Report

The ban comes amid border tensions between Beijing and Delhi. Global Times reported that "the ban comes after tensions between the two countries flared up in Galwan Valley region," which it blamed on "India's recent, illegal construction of defence facilities on the border to Chinese territory". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TNb7zd

Top Chinese general says need to keep military option for Taiwan

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National Guard called to respond to Minneapolis violence

Minnesota governor Tim Walz called in the National Guard on Thursday as looting broke out in St. Paul and a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence after rioting over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man in police custody, reduced parts of one neighborhood to a smoking shambles. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3er5cHV

Trump says he likes 'great gentleman' PM Modi

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National Guard called to respond to Minneapolis violence

Minnesota governor Tim Walz called in the National Guard on Thursday as looting broke out in St. Paul and a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence after rioting over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man in police custody, reduced parts of one neighborhood to a smoking shambles. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3er5cHV

Trump feeling 'absolutely great' after taking hydroxychloroquine: White House

US President Donald Trump is feeling "absolutely great" after taking a two-week dose of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and will take it again if he thinks he is exposed to the coronavirus, a top White House official said. The drug is not FDA-approved for the treatment of Covid-19 but it has been identified as a possible treatment. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2MbgbZX

US joins G7 artificial intelligence group to counter China

The US has joined an international panel for setting ethical guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence. The Trump administration had earlier dismissed the idea. White House's chief technology officer, Michael Kratsios, told The Associated Press on Thursday it is important to establish shared democratic principles as a counter to China's record of "twisting technology" in ways that threaten civil liberties. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XIiE39

US tops 1,00,000 virus deaths as layoffs climb to 41 million

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