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Another virus has gripped India, and it’s not Coronavirus, it's the African Swine Fever (AFS), the Indian state of Assam has warned Central Government about the rapid spread of African Swine Fever in the state which has killed 2,500 pigs. On Sunday, Veterinary Minister Atul Bora had said the disease was detected towards the end of February this year at a village in Xizang province of China bordering Arunachal Pradesh

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Even if you are using one of the world’s best phones, you can’t record slow motion above 1,000 frames per second but a new record-holding camera can record up to 70 trillion frames per second. The name of the technology is compressed ultrafast spectral photography (CUSP). It uses extremely short pulses of laser light, each one lasting just one femtosecond, technology is developed by Professor Lihong Wang

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A schoolboy in the Indian city of Delhi has been arrested as police started investing an Instagram group chat that allegedly discussed rape, sexual objectification, and slut-shaming of schoolgirls. The boy named 20 other group members as the police seized his mobile for further investigation. A 19-year-old college student in Delhi filed a complaint against the group when she discovered her pictures were shared in the chat group

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Three frontline healthcare workers in Russia have fallen from the hospital windows in the last few weeks with two confirmed deaths, raising some serious concerns about healthcare staff in the country. Alexander Shulepov, a doctor working in the Voronezh is currently in serious condition after falling from a hospital window, Shulepov and his friend posted a video online saying they were forced to continue work despite testing positive for coronavirus

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President Donald Trump said defaulting on debt is a “rough game,” amid calls from some Republicans that the United States should refuse to pay its debt obligations to China as a retaliatory measure for its mishandling of the CCP virus outbreak.

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Nigeria is starting a “gradual” easing of Covid-19 lockdowns in three major states today (May 4) but data shows the timing could not be worse. Since Apr. 27, when Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari announced the plans to lift the lockdown, the country’s Covid-19 case count has increased by nearly 50%.

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Seoul (CNN) North Korea fired gunshots at a South Korean guard post in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer area which separates the two countries, on Sunday, and the South fired back, according to its military. The North Korean gunfire hit the wall but did not injure anyone or cause any discernible damage to the guard post or its equipment, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

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Benjamin Netanyahu could be barred from forming a government after Israel’s high court began assessing petitions that seek to obstruct the prime minister because he is under criminal indictment. In January, the high court also declined to rule on whether Netanyahu could form a government under indictment, essentially deferring the decision to the electorate in March’s election.

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Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, is scheduled to join Australia’s national cabinet meeting, along with Australian state premiers, on Tuesday to discuss the proposal. “Because both countries are on a similar path in terms of controlling the virus, it looks increasingly possible that we can form a trans-Tasman bubble, although we recognize it’s going to be a unique challenge to create a safe border,” Roberts said.

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CNBC's Jim Cramer warned Monday that the U.S. economy may be too weak right now to handle another trade fight with China and discouraged the Trump administration from imposing a new wave of tariffs against Beijing. "I think it's really important to recognize that the president now seems to want to raise tariffs with 30 million people unemployed.

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Global coronavirus cases jumped above 3.6 million on Monday as the death toll reached 250,000. USA tops the list with more than 1.2 million COVID19 infections and deaths above 69,000. Global economies are trying to reopen as more than 10 countries on Monday announced easing in lockdown restrictions

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At least 12 countries began easing restrictions on public life on Monday, as the world tries to figure out how to bring life back to normal without creating opportunities for the coronavirus to spread. Most of the countries easing their restrictions are in Europe, including Italy, Spain, and Germany. India allowed businesses, local transportation and activities like weddings to resume in areas with few or no known infections

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India is developing a land pool nearly double the size of Luxembourg to lure businesses moving out of China, according to people with knowledge of the matter. A total area of 461,589 hectares has been identified across the country for the purpose. That includes 115,131 hectares of existing industrial land in states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh

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The U.K. has added to international pressure on China to answer questions over information it gave the world about the coronavirus outbreak. Asked Monday if China needed to explain how quickly it made the world aware of the extent of the virus, the U.K.’s defense minister said: “I think it does.” U.S. President Donald Trump has increasingly pointed the finger of blame at China

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It may be some time before tourists are traveling the globe again. But what if you could travel through designated, approved parts of it? Politicians from Australia and New Zealand are discussing the possibility of opening up borders to each other, creating a travel corridor or "travel bubble" between the two nations. Both countries almost completely shut their borders to foreigners in March, a huge blow to their tourism industries

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Russia reported 10,633 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, its fourth record single-day increase in a row, in what is becoming a major headache for President Vladimir Putin. The country's total number of cases is now 134,687, the seventh-highest number in the world, in a dramatic turnaround from the situation back in March. A total of 1,280 deaths has now been recorded, the country's coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement

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The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit near the city of Ponce, in a region where hundreds of homes were destroyed in a January temblor, the Associated Press reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties, the AP said. Cracks in homes were reported in the town of Guayanilla, where spokesman Danny Hernández said, “Everything shook really hard.”

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The new policy immediately bans the use, purchase, sale, transportation, and import of 1,500 models of assault weapons, like the AR-15, the military-style semiautomatic rifle that has been used in many mass shootings in the US — including the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Officials in both countries have traded conspiracy theories over Twitter about who is responsible for the public health crisis, with a Chinese official accusing the US military of bringing the coronavirus to China, and Donald Trump promoting, without evidence, the theory that a virology lab in Wuhan accidentally released the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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It's Friday morning in Alexandra township – a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg – and dozens of people are gathered in a field outside a food distribution point, hoping today might be the day they get something to eat. Children wait for food aid from their parents near Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, April 23.

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Bush's comments come as Democratic governors clash with Republican President Donald Trump over the White House's coronavirus response, and even drugs that could treat the virus are politicized. More than a million Americans have tested positive for coronavirus, and well over 60,000 people have died from the virus in the United States. The White House has said it expects total deaths to rise to 74,000 by August.

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SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their tense border on Sunday, the South’s military said, blaming North Korean soldiers for targeting a guard post. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said in a statement that North Korean troops fired several bullets at a South Korean guard post inside the heavily fortified border.

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The United States just had its deadliest day on record due to the coronavirus as states across the country begin to ease restrictions meant to curb the spread of the virus, according to data published by the World Health Organization. The U.S. saw 2,909 people die of Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to the recent data. That’s the highest daily Covid-19 death toll in the U.S. yet

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The tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in India is approaching 40,000, with a record of 2,644 new cases detected in the last 24 hours. The death toll from Covid-19 has gone up to 1,301 after 83 coronavirus-linked deaths were reported in 24 hours. Global coronavirus cases stand at 3.48 million as the death toll reached 244,791

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A damning dossier leaked from the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance claims that China lied to the world about human-to-human transmission of the virus, disappeared whistleblowers and refused to hand over virus samples so the West could make a vaccine. Intelligence gathering showed that China had “evidence of human-human transmission from early December,” but continued to deny it could spread this way until January 20, according to the dossier.

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