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The Palestinian Authority began easing a first round of lockdown measures in May, but since then it has recorded a surge of new infections
First one is set for Monday; 3 more in coming months
People are demanding the resignation of the conservative government
President Trump said last week he is considering banning the wildly-popular Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app as a way to punish Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic
Erdogan's declaration comes after a top Turkish court revoked a 1934 Turkish decision that turned the sixth-century Byzantine monument into a museum
Critics say it will hamper lawyers' independence
An investigation has been launched into the incident in the Niger Delta region
Britain's first post-Brexit international trade secretary Liam Fox and Kenya's former WTO general council chair Amina Mohamed threw their hats in the ring in the final hours before the 1600 GMT deadline
Lazarus Chakwera , 65, comfortably beat Peter Mutharika with 58.5 per cent of the vote, marking the first time in African history that an election re-run led to the defeat of an incumbent
Authorities considering reimposing restrictive measures in Tehran to contain a resurgence of the disease
Yemen is already gripped by what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed, an estimated four million people displaced by war
Earth's average surface temperature for July 2019-June 2020 was 1.3C above pre-industrial levels, the standard benchmark for global warming
China obstructs travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas by US diplomats, journalists and tourists, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday
Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old US Army specialist at Fort Hood in Texas, went missing more than two months ago
Bruno Dey stands accused of complicity in the murder of 5,230 people when he worked at the Stutthof camp
Pope Francis throws his support behind a UN Security Council resolution calling for a halt to conflicts to facilitate the fight against the coronavirus pandemic
The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast that average daily oil demand will drop by eight million barrels per day this year, a decline of around eight percent from last year
The Health Ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours —the biggest daily spike since the first case was detected in late January
Beijing imposed a draconian national security law days earlier
The decision by the US carrier comes as steps to reopen the US economy coincide with a major surge in COVID-19 cases
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