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BREAKING: South Africa’s COVID-19 Lockdown Extended By 2 Weeks

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that SA’s lockdown will be extended by two weeks. The lockdown was implemented to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial lockdown would have only been for 21 days, but Ramaphosa, in a televised address to the nation on Thursday evening, said SA was at the beginning of a monumental struggle and could not...

COVID-19: Hundreds Of Bodies Buried In Mass Grave On New York Island

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Workers wearing hazmat suits have been spotted burying caskets in a mass grave on New York's Hart Island as the number of burials quadruples amid the coronavirus pandemic and the city's death toll rises to more than 4,200. Hart Island sometimes referred to as Hart's Island has a grisly history and started being used as a cemetery during the civil...

BREAKING: Motor-Racing Legend Stirling Moss Dead At 90

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Motor-racing legend Sir Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90 following a long illness. Recognised as one of the greatest drivers of all time, Moss won 212 of his 529 races but was also known as the best driver never to win a Formula One title. In his seven seasons he won 16 races and the closest he came...

UK’s COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Injection Starts [VIDEO]

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The first volunteers for the coronavirus vaccine trial have received their first doses as scientists desperately try to fight the illness which has now claimed the lives of 18,738 in the UK. Scientists at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, have begun the first human trial in Europe by administering the trial injections, which were developed in under three months, to more...

UPDATE: 4 Minneapolis Policemen Fired After Death Of Unarmed Black Man

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Four Minneapolis police officers were fired, on Tuesday, over the death of an unarmed black man seen in a video lying face down in the street, gasping for air and groaning, “I can’t breathe,” while a white officer knelt on his neck for several minutes. Hours after the officers’ dismissals were announced, thousands of protesters filled the streets around the...

US Impose Visa Ban On Nigerian Election Riggers

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The US says it has imposed visa restriction on some individuals for their actions during the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections. In a statement on Monday, Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, said actions have also been taken against some persons in the run-up to the September and October 2020 governorship elections in Edo and Ondo. The identities of those affected by...

World’s Second Richest Man Bill Gates Loses Father

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William H. Gates II, the father of Microsoft co-founder and the world's second-richest man Bill Gates, has died at the age of 94, the family announced on Tuesday. In a moving message, his son paid tribute to an 'amazing and dignified man' who was a 'quiet influence on almost everything I have done in life.' The lawyer, philanthropist, and U.S. Army veteran...

China MOCKS President Trump Coronavirus Diagnosis

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The editor of an influential Chinese state-run newspaper has mocked Donald Trump after the US President and first lady Melania Trump both tested positive for the coronavirus. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a major Chinese tabloid and mouthpiece of the Communist Party, said that President Trump and his wife 'have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19'. He claimed...

Trump Given Experimental Antibodies From Mice That Are NOT Available To Public

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Donald Trump has been given an experimental coronavirus antibody cocktail not available to the public and made from mice as part of his treatment for coronavirus.  The cocktail, developed by US drugmaker Regeneron, is also starting to be used in recovery trials in the UK and was described as 'very positive and very potent' by an Oxford professor this morning. As...

Trump Is Doing ‘Very Well’ And In High Spirits, Says Doctor

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President Donald Trump is doing 'very well' and in high spirits, while undergoing an experimental treatment for coronavirus, his doctors say. Trump's personal physician Sean Conley offered an update on his condition outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday morning alongside several other members of the president's medical team. 'This morning, the president is doing very...

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