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Top White House officials and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress will try again on Tuesday to narrow gaping differences over a fifth major coronavirus relief bill to help stimulate the economy and possibly provide new aid to the unemployed.

The scientific committee on the disease said in a statement that France has the situation under control but it is precarious with a surge of virus circulation this summer.

Stylist Julia Wanja picks her way delicately through piles of food waste, discarded masks, rubber gloves and other rubbish at Nairobi's Dandora dumpsite, looking for used hair extensions she can clean and resell to customers.

Ehsan Fayed keeps reliving the day her husband was killed in a 2005 bombing in which Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik alHariri was assassinated, waiting for justice that may never come.

Australia's secondmost populous state Victoria said on Tuesday military personnel will be deployed to enforce COVID19 isolation orders, with anyone caught in breach of those rules facing tough new fines.

Isaias regained hurricane strength on Monday night just hours before it was due to make landfall in the Carolinas and head up the U.S. East Coast toward Washington, Philadelphia and New York, the National Hurricane Center said.

A Libyan military commander who spent decades living in Virginia is now responding to two federal lawsuits accusing him of atrocities in his military campaigns.

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The Treasury Department is projecting government borrowing of $947 billion in the current JulySeptember period, which would be a record for the quarter but down from the alltime high of $2.75 trillion in this year's second quarter .

President Donald Trump threatened to sue Nevada after Democratic lawmakers passed a bill on Sunday that would send mailin ballots to every voter ahead of November's presidential election in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

The UK Foreign Office said Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had approved the appointment of Barton as the Permanent Under-Secretary of the new ministry.

Mexican students will be educated in the next academic year through a homelearning program broadcast by major networks such as TV Azteca until a drop in coronavirus infections allows for schools to be reopened, the government said on Monday.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti resigned on Monday, blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state.

The government will act if the coronavirus spreads through London as it has done in other parts of Britain, junior business minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Monday.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Monday that early August would a decisive period for preventing a largescale spread of the coronavirus, state broadcaster VTV reported, after a reemergence of the virus after more than three months.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Monday that early August would a decisive period for preventing a largescale spread of the coronavirus, state broadcaster VTV reported, after a reemergence of the virus after more than three months.