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Pope Francis said that people are more important than the economy, as countries decide how quickly to reopen their countries from coronavirus controlled lockdowns.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday condemned the killing of George Floyd, an African American man whose death in police custody on Monday was captured on video and has led to serious ongoing protests in Minneapolis.

Floyd died on Monday after Derek Chauvin, a white policeman, knelt on his neck for several minutes as Floyd moaned and yelled: “I can’t breathe.” A video of the incident shows Floyd pleading with police and eventually appearing motionless as the policeman’s knee remained on his neck.

Thirty countries and multiple international partners and institutions have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) an initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all.

European Union Committee for Human rights writes a letter to Indian Home minister Amit Shah 'expressing serious concern' about the recent arrests of students and Human rights defenders. The...

Twitter has, for the first time, flagged and hidden a tweet by United States President Donald Trump, saying he violated Twitter's rules about glorifying violence. The Tweet posted on...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has called the death of a black man George Floyd at the hands of a white policeman "a state-sanctioned murder".

The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that countries in which coronavirus appears to be in retreat could still face an "immediate second peak" if they let up too soon on measures to halt the outbreak.

More than 600 physicians in the United States sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling the coronavirus pandemic controlled lockdowns a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing negative health consequences” to millions of non-COVID-19 patients.

Saltanat Akbari, a 107-year-old Iranian woman who was infected with the coronavirus has recovered, Fars news agency has reported.

“We are celebrating the joyous feasting of Eid al-Fitr amid growing concern over the difficult conditions Muslims and the world at large are going through due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,” said Dr Al-Othaimeen, turning to Allah to grant the broader Muslim community and all humanity salvation and refuge from the deadly outbreak of coronavirus and to bring life back to normal.

The University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine trial has only a 50-percent chance of success as coronavirus cases ebb in the UK, the professor co-leading the development of the vaccine told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.