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The EU called on Washington to reconsider its decision to permanently cut funding to the World Health Organization. US President Donald Trump has accused the WHO of being too lenient with China, where the coronavirus emerged last year [Yuri Gripas/Reuters] US President Donald Trump faced a broad backlash on Saturday over severing ties with the UN's health agency during a pandemic, as the coronavirus surged in Latin America while Europe further reopened from lockdown.

Church steps in to help nearby mosque comply with German physical distancing rules by hosting part of its worshippers. The Martha Lutheran church hosted Muslim prayers in Arabic and German [Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters] A church in Germany's capital, Berlin, has helped a nearby mosque comply with physical distancing guidelines by hosting Friday prayers, in a move hailed as " an amazing sign of solidarity".

PIA plane crashes close to airport, killing 92 people. Authorities have identified 19 bodies. by Asad Hashim Islamabad, Pakistan  - At least 97 people have been killed after an Airbus A320 passenger airliner crashed into a residential neighbourhood while on approach to the airport in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. At least two male passengers of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-8303 from the eastern city of Lahore to Karachi survived the crash on Friday, a health ministry spokeswoman told Al Jazeera. There were at least 91 passengers on board the plane, according to an official passenger manifest shared with Al Jazeera by the officials. Health ministry spokeswoman Meeran Yousuf told Al Jazeera by telephone that 97 people have died, with 66 bodies kept at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi's largest government hospital and 31 at Civil Hospital Karachi, another le...

A heroic mother, Feroza Omar, has gained world recognition after breastfeeding 20 orphans babies following gunmen attack in Dasht-e-Barchi maternity hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan which left 24 women dead including new born babies.

US hopes to have one or more vaccines ready by January - a timeline that outpaces that given by many health experts.

Senate Republicans have pledged to block measure, and Trump has promised a veto if it were to reach his desk.

Local official said an entire block in one camp, housing about 5,000 people, was shut off after a confirmed case.

 A Chinese Covid-19 researcher, Dr. Bing Liu, 37, who was on the verge of making breakthrough in his research has been murdered in his Pennsylvania home in Saturday.

Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday.

Many citizens of United States of America have taken to twitter to vent their anger and blast President Donald Trump for keeping to his promise and holding online church on Sunday to pray against Coronavirus.

The US military acknowledged Thursday that 11 soldiers were wounded in an Iranian missile strike on a US base in Iraq, despite previously saying that there had been no injuries.

Iran’s armed forces chief of staff has warned that “any new mischief” by the United States will be met with “a more crushing and decisive response.”

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on the insanity of the assassination of the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), saying Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani should have been killed “many years ago.”

long-serving tourism minister Manuel Marrero took office Saturday as the country resurrected a post last held by Fidel Castro.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened to close two strategic military bases used by the United States in Turkey after Washington warned of sanctions over Ankara buying Russian arms.

A majority of the House of Representatives now supports the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for high crimes against his country .

A missile recently unveiled by Hezbollah is capable of destroying all kinds of military battleships, a twitter account affiliated to the Lebanese resistance movement says.  A photo released by an activist shows the missile that was recently unveiled by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, which he said is capable of destroying all military battleships.

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced Shia cleric and human rights activist Sheikh Mohammed al-Habib to 12 years in prison and imposed a travel ban on him, as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on members of the religious community.

Robert Mugabe, former Zimbabwean president is dead. He died at the age of 95.

An American author and former diplomat says a recent Hezbollah operation against the occupied territories sent a warning to the Israelis that they “cannot hide anymore,” and that the Lebanese resistance group is no longer “on the receiving end” of the Tel Aviv regime’s raids. The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement warns Israel against any future attacks on Lebanon.