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The US Department of State has announced it is lifting the recommendation for US citizens to avoid all travel abroad in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.more

Worldwide economic recovery will be faster if the future coronavirus vaccine is made available to everyone as a public good, World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday.more

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter removed content posted by accounts linked to US President Donald Trump on Wednesday due to breaching the Covid-19 false information policy. In the video, Trump maintained that children were "almost immune" to the coronavirus.more

Several experts in different fields have told CBC News they don't expect the Canada-U.S. border to reopen this year.more

The first mission to send NASA astronauts into orbit on a commercially owned spaceship came back down to Earth today with the splashdown of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in the Gulf of Mexico.more

President Donald Trump has announced he is banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the US. He told reporters he could sign an executive order as early as Saturday.more

The Long Island family in New York announced the death of their German Shepherd, which was the first dog in the US to test positive for Covid-19. He started having trouble breathing in mid-April.more

"The business owners are black" - such signs appear on the windows of some premises in Washington. This is happening on the wave of the social campaign "Buy at Black People". Proponents of the initiative explain that it is "to help reduce social inequalities, the sources of which date back to the times of slavery and segregation."more

Strong rain, heavy winds and flash floods are expected over a 100-mile stretch of Texas' Gulf Coast. more

A lottery winner made good on a handshake promise made nearly 30 years ago by sharing his millions with a friend. more

The World Health Organization is seeing intense transmission of the coronavirus in relatively few countries, its chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday.more

A drive-by shooting at a funeral home has left 14 people wounded after mourners were ambushed on Chicago's South Side, as the city is rocked by yet another day of shocking violence. more

The US government will pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a future coronavirus vaccine, which two laboratories are working on in cooperation: German Biontech and American Pfizer - announced in a joint statement of both companies.more

President Donald Trump has warned the US pandemic may "get worse before it gets better", as he revived his virus briefings with a more scripted tone.more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has backed the UK's tough stance on Beijing, urging the international community to create an alliance against China's "bullying."more

Dozens of consignors auctioned off priceless pieces of space and tech memorabilia this week — including a rocket engine that carried Neil Armstrong to the Moon and an assortment of meteorites recovered from remote locations across the globe.more

The number of new cases of coronavirus rose by almost 260,000 in 24 hours - the largest single-day increase since the pandemic began, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.more

A teacher and former beauty queen has been jailed for sending lewd pictures to a 15-year-old student. Ramsey Bearse, who previously taught at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Cross Lanes, West Virginia in the US, was first arrested in December 2018 by the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office.more

The chain has rebalanced the diet of some of the cows by adding lemon grass in a bid to limit bovine contributions to climate change. By tweaking their diet, Burger King said Tuesday that it believes it can reduce a cow’s daily methane emissions by about 33%.more

Technological security is now one of the dimensions of national security, so Europe cannot afford dependence on unreliable suppliers controlled by authoritarian governments - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki writes today in 'Daily Telegraph'.more

Liz Truss, Minister for International Trade, denied that Great Britain is preparing to lower food safety standards in order to reach a trade agreement with the US. She indicated that "a common market with a third country does not mean inferior food."more

A threat to the Polish economy are potential global turbulence after a possible deterioration of the epidemic situation, perturbations after the November presidential election in the US and possible hard Brexit at the end of the year - assessed PKO BP economist Piotr Bujak.more

President Donald Trump, who since the outbreak of the epidemic has argued that the masks do not provide sufficient protection, founded one of them for the first time yesterday during a visit to the Walter Reed National Military Center, according to US media.more

In the largest Polish consular districts in the United States, New York and Chicago, most of the Polish electorate already voted in the second round of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland. All votes must be cast by mail or in person at the latest by 21:00.more

A series of leading UK supermarkets have told Business Insider that they will never sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef from the US, in a blow to those pushing for UK food standards to be dropped in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Trump.more