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Shenzhen has become the first city in China to ban its residents from eating dog and cat meat after passing a groundbreaking new law in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Animal activists have demanded the Chinese […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has issued a “shoot to kill” order to police for anyone violating the coronavirus quarantine lockdown. “Shoot them dead,” Duterte ordered in an impromptu address on national television on Wednesday night. […]

President Vladimir Putin has deployed a planeload of medical supplies to the United States to help fight against the coronavirus outbreak. The Russian plane, filled with much-needed equipment, left Russia for the USA on Wednesday […]

The murky origins of the coronavirus in China are becoming even less clear, as a Wuhan doctor who was among the first to alert other medics to the existence of the novel coronavirus has now been declared […]

The cast of the pandemic movie ‘Contagion’ staged a ‘virtual reunion’ to record a series of public service announcements to fight ‘misleading, inaccurate messages’ about the coronavirus. British actress Kate Winslet, whose character died half […]

Former prime minister Matteo Renzi has warned that Italy must reopen its schools at the start of May or risk causing mass protests and riots. Renzi, the leader of the Italia Viva party who led the […]

The novel coronavirus killed more than 42,000 people in the city of Wuhan alone, according to locals at the epicenter of the pandemic — a figure which is more than 10 times the official number […]

Finance minister Thomas Schaefer was found dead near Frankfurt on Saturday after reportedly killing himself over fears of the impact the coronavirus crisis will have on the German economy, according to reports. He was 54. […]

People in Italy are becoming restless with some calling for ‘revolution’ and organising supermarket raids due to food shortages. The country has been in lockdown for almost three weeks, but now Italians are starting to […]