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A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally. (Image credit: NPR)

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally. (Image credit: NPR)

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally. (Image credit: NPR)

Gantz, Lapid, Sa’ar and Liberman accuse government of selectively enforcing lockdown as10,000 join ultra-Orthodox burial procession

A broad coalition of protesters took to the streets in cities and towns across Russia, despite an increasing police clampdown, to support jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny and to voice growing anger at the Kremlin.

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China’s economy started the new year on a weaker footing as new coronavirus outbreaks and pandemic-containment measures sapped factory production and weighed on the country’s services recovery.

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Six Chinese fighter aircraft and a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Sunday, the island’s defence ministry said, in an unusual admission of U.S. military activity. Tensions have spiked