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Supreme Court dealt defeats on issues dear to Trump's supporters- it expanded equal protection rights to gay and transgender and sustained protections for certain undocumented immigrants that Trump had sought to end.

Seven-day mortality rates declined to 8.6 per cent compared to 12 per cent in a previous safety study of the first 5,000 transfused patients, the researchers said.

China has become a key element in the 2020 presidential campaign with President Donald Trump and his supporters seeking to make the administration’s tough stance with Beijing a main foreign policy selling point.

Farooq was found dead outside his Green Lane house in north London in September 2010, a month after another senior MQM leader, Raza Haidar, was assassinated in Karachi.

The preliminary report comes as the country's capital tackles a resurgence of COVID-19 cases over the past week linked to the massive Xinfadi food centre, which houses warehouses and trading halls in an area the size of nearly 160 football pitches.

Many researchers have been hunting for clues as to why some people infected with the coronavirus get very ill and others, less so.

A total of 982,012 COVID-19 tests, including 31,500 in the last 24 hours, were conducted in the country, the ministry said.

Steroids can suppress immune systems, warned the deputy physician-in-chief at New York's largest healthcare system, Northwell Health where, he said, physicians are using steroids on a case-by-case basis.

The logo of the more than 130-year-old brand features an African American woman named after a character from 19th century minstrel shows. The offensive caricature is rooted in a stereotype of a friendly black woman working as a servant or nanny for a whit...

The Dutch operations of the company have been facing protests and demonstrations for over a week. According to the Netherlands-based workers' union, employees are demanding job security from the management.

CureVac might be able to apply for approval early next year, said Klaus Cichutek, President of German vaccine regulator PEI.

Smartphone apps have been touted as a high-tech tool in the effort to track down potential COVID-19 infections.

Companies and academic institutions also warn of a 'reverse brain drain', in which foreign students simply take their American education to benefit another nation's economy.

In the United States, which has over 116,000 deaths, testing is still ramping up months after the start of the outbreak.

The Manila court found Maria Ressa, her online news site Rappler Inc. and former reporter Reynaldo Santos Jr. guilty of libeling a wealthy businessman.

President Donald Trump's administration allows that there are new flare-ups in coronavirus caseloads in some states but insists there will be no shutdown of the economy if a second full-blown wave arises.