After years of wrangling since the referendum in 2016, theUnited Kingdomformally left theEuropean Unionat the end of January. “Leavers” were jubilant…
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Former US ambassador to Germany and current Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, has been working closely with German authorities…
The people residing in Manaus, a city situated in the Brazilian Amazon, have been living through a daily horror story. Everyday, mass graves are dug…
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May 8
A herder drives camels on Badain Jaran Desert on May 1, 2020 in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Getty)
A visitor in a plexiglass lock talks to a resident at Les Jardins d'Astrid, a rest home in Maurage, La Louviere, on April 29, 2020, as the visits to residents of rest homes are possible from today in Wallonia. (Getty)
Students eat their lunch on desks with plastic partitions as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Dajia Elementary School in Taipei on April 29, 2020. (Getty)
Resident Johanna Pfeiffer, 96, looks on from her room as singer Alf Weiss performs live at the Hermann Radtke Haus nursing home during the novel coronavirus crisis on April 29, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)
Lisa Fascilla, with children Nina and Alex receive a beer delivery from Karen and Mark Heuwetter and their two dogs Buddy and Barley on May 03, 2020 in Huntington Village, New York. (Getty)
Protesters rally from their cars as they call for the state to lift stay-at-home orders and reopen the economy in downtown Richmond, Virginia near the State Capitol complex on May 6, 2020.(Getty)
Politicians all over the world have embraced war metaphors to describe the global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is…
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US attacks on Iran's bridges widen the divide
