UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Source: AAP The United Kingdom reported 41,385 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, a daily record, as a rapidly spreading variant of the coronavirus increases infection rates and the holiday weekend ...
Zhang Zhan reportedly went on a prolonged hunger strike while in detention and is said to be in poor health.(AP: Kin Cheung) A Chinese court has handed a four-year jail term to a citizen journalist ...
President Vladimir Putin has told Russians that a national coronavirus lockdown is not necessary.(AP: Alexei Druzhinin) Russia has admitted its national coronavirus death toll is more than three times higher than previously reported, making it ...
President Donald Trump has signed a new coronavirus relief package.(AP/Patrick Semansky) US President Donald Trump has signed into law a $US2.3 trillion ($3.02 trillion) pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of ...