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Biden blasted President Donald Trump for working to block emergency funding for the cash-strapped US Postal Service, which would handle tens of millions of ballots this fall.

The recordings and a surveillance video clip, broadcast by news organizations, track the killer's trail through several towns.

The study noted that while bats do a lot of good for the world such as pollinating plants, eating disease-carrying insects, and dispersing seeds of tropical forest trees, they are also natural carriers of coronaviruses.

In Britain, volunteers in a trial at the University of Oxford are set to be given on Thursday the first dose of a potential vaccine based on a virus found in chimpanzees.

Officials in the city of Sakura, 50 km east of Tokyo, mowed the tulip beds at "Sakura Furusato Hiroba" and cancelled an annual tulip festival.

Children who cannot live at home for reasons such as abuse, neglect or their parents' divorce are usually cared for at residential-care facilities in Japan.

Hassett also acknowledged that a decline in second-quarter US gross domestic could be the biggest on record.

The impact of lost tourism revenues, falling remittances and travel and other restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic are expected to leave some 130 million people acutely hungry.

Alberta Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw said a total of 484 cases of the coronavirus in the province were tied to the Cargill plant, including 360 workers. One worker at the plant has died.

Dubai is now under strict 24-hour lockdown but is ideally positioned for the "stay at home" coronavirus challenge.

Health authorities have said this would allow a reopening of the economy, while maintaining guidelines on disinfection and preventing the spread of the virus in people's daily lives.

Authorities in Wuhan initially tried to cover up the outbreak, punishing doctors who had raised the alarm online, and there have been questions about the government's recording of infections as it repeatedly changed its counting criteria at the peak of th...

Earlier, the city of Wuhan admitted missteps in tallying its death toll as it abruptly raised the count by 50 percent following growing world doubts about Chinese transparency.

The search and rescue team for a capsule carrying the NASA astronauts could not reach the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan due to coronavirus lockdown.

China has taken steps since February to restart its economy by recalling workers to factories and easing travel restrictions due to coronavirus.

Abe said the emergency would be in place until May 6 and was aimed at reducing traffic during the Golden Week holiday season around the start of May.