At least 15 people died after a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south eastern Peru. About 100 guests were attending the wedding party when the mudslide broke through the walls of the hotel in Abancay. Firefighters, police and residents worked through the night to rescue people still trapped under rubble, mud and rocks.  The bride and groom survived unscathed. 

At least 15 people died after a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south eastern Peru. About 100 guests were attending the wedding party when the mudslide broke through the walls of the hotel in Abancay. Firefighters, police and residents worked through the night to rescue people still trapped under rubble, mud and rocks. The bride and groom survived unscathed.

A US civil servant who revealed the affair between former US President Bill Clinton and&nbsp;former White House intern&nbsp;Monica Lewinsky&nbsp;has died.&nbsp;70-year-old&nbsp;Linda Tripp&nbsp;passed away after suffering from pancreatic cancer.&nbsp;Tripp, who worked at the Pentagon and had a friendship with Lewinsky despite their 24-year age difference, learnt that the younger woman had had a sexual relationship with the President and began secretly recording their conversations in 1997.&nbsp;Tripp turned the tapes over to the special prosecutor leading a broad investigation into the Clinton administration.&nbsp;Tripp was fired from her job at the Pentagon on the last day of the Clinton administration in 2001.

&nbsp;As signs of normalcy return to Covid-19 epicentre Wuhan, this farmer is left with thousands of kilograms of produce. This is the story of the only choice he has.

Urging people to maintain social distancing to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned that the situation in the country due to the pandemic could worsen in the days to come. Khan said it is a misconception that this pandemic is sprea&shy;ding slowly in the country as the number of deaths has been low so far and it will not spread rapidly.&nbsp;He&nbsp;said&nbsp;people had to adopt social distancing by themselves as lockdown was not a solution and the government and police could not keep people in their homes by force.&nbsp;As of Thursday, the confirmed number of cases in the country increased to 4,409 with 64 deaths.

The Saudi-led coalition began a unilateral ceasefire in Yemen's long war on Thursday, saying it hoped the initiative to prevent coronavirus in the impoverished country would lead to a wider political solution.&nbsp;The Iran-backed&nbsp;Houthi&nbsp;rebels have not made any comment on the coalition's declaration of a two-week pause in the five-year conflict.&nbsp;If the ceasefire does hold, it would be the first breakthrough since the warring parties agreed to&nbsp;a&nbsp;UN-brokered ceasefire in the port city of Hodeida during talks in Sweden in late 2018.&nbsp;

As the world comes to a grounding halt, the National Orchestra of France used the magic of technology to weave together the sight and sounds of its musicians, who filmed themselves playing alone in their homes into a seamless, rousing whole.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;seems to be working in Italy and Spain, Europe's two worst coronavirus-hit countries.&nbsp;It has taken between three and four weeks since the two countries announced lockdowns for the daily rate of deaths and infections to start showing a downward trend. While both countries have seen cases going down, there is no clear indication on when the lockdown&nbsp;will ease up. Spain&nbsp;has thus far reported nearly 1.5&nbsp;lakh&nbsp;cases, and Italy has reported nearly 1.5 lakh&nbsp;cases becoming the second and third most affected nations in the world.&nbsp;

Russia on Thursday reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases of coronavirus, pushing its national case total to 10,131.&nbsp;The number of coronavirus-related deaths rose by 13 to 76.&nbsp;For now, Moscow remains a hot spot &mdash; with the vast majority of cases and resources to combat the disease. Authorities unveiled a new home-test delivery service for residents. Users can purchase the kits for around $25 a piece.
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Italy&nbsp;may start to lift current lockdown restrictions by the end of April if the spread of the disease in the country continues to slow.&nbsp;Prime minister Giuseppe Conte&nbsp;, however cautioned, that restrictions would only be eased gradually, adding that Italy could not lower its guard to the threat of the virus.&nbsp;On Wednesday, there were 542 coronavirus-related deaths in Italy, lower than 604 the previous day. The death toll now stands at 17,669.
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US president Donald Trump has said that as many as 10 drugs are currently under clinical trial in the US as part of the administration's "unprecedented" effort to find a therapeutic solution to the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. He added that the American doctors, the lab technicians and the pharma companies are coming up with things that will help in the near future against Covid-19.

The coronavirus infection has now reached the Amazon indigenous tribes that are vulnerable to foreign diseases due to little contact with the outside world. Brazil has confirmed at least seven coronavirus cases among the indigenous population. according to local media reports. The first was a 20-year-old woman from the Kokama ethnic group who was confirmed positive a week ago. Brazil is home to an estimated 800,000 indigenous people from more than 300 ethnic groups.

Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus, according to a study published on Wednesday, in journal Science.&nbsp; However, dogs, chickens, pigs and ducks are not likely to catch the infection.&nbsp;The study was aimed at identifying which animals are vulnerable to the virus so they can be used to test experimental vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The research has&nbsp;prompted&nbsp;the WHO to take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets.&nbsp;BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday posted a video message saying, a cat could not get or give coronavirus and there was no need for people to abandon their pets.
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Saying there would be &lsquo;many more body bags&rsquo; without international unity, The World Health&nbsp;Organisation&nbsp;on Wednesday urged the United States and China to join forces to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Following criticism from US President Donald Trump that the UN health body &lsquo;blew it&rsquo; and was &lsquo;very China centric&rsquo;,&nbsp;WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing in Geneva&nbsp;that the&nbsp;Washington and&nbsp;Beijing&nbsp;should come together and fight this dangerous enemy.&nbsp;

The United States recorded nearly 2,000 coronavirus deaths for a second day in a row, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University till Wednesday evening. The record-breaking figure of 1,973 deaths on Wednesday came after the previous day's toll of 1,939. The total number of fatalities in the US have gone up to 14,695. The US death toll now exceeds that of Spain, which has suffered 14,555 deaths, but has not surpassed Italy, whose toll stands at 17,669.

More than six weeks after Saudi Arabia reported its first case, the coronavirus has infected several members of the kingdom's royal family. New York Times has reported that as many as 150 royals in the kingdom are now believed to have contracted the virus. 84-year-old King Salman has reportedly secluded himself in an island palace near Jeddah on the Red Sea, while the kingdom's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has retreated with many of his ministers to a remote site on the same coast. Saudi Arabia so far has reported 41 deaths from the coronavirus and 2,795 confirmed cases.

At least 11 Indians have died of coronavirus infection in the United States with another 16 testing positive. Covid-19 infection has claimed more than 14,000 lives and afflicted more than four lakh people in the US. All Indian citizens who have died due to the deadly infection in the US are male. Ten of them are from New York and New Jersey area while four of them are said to be taxi drivers in New York City.

The leader of a self styled political revolution, Senator Bernie Sanders, ended his Democratic Presidential race on Wednesday. A democratic socialist&nbsp;Bernie's drop out from the race establishes Vice President Biden&nbsp;as the presumptive nominee to challenge President Trump. A voice of the working class, Bernie in his live streamed&nbsp;video to his supporters said, "Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on.'

China's top anti-corruption body has opened an investigation against property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, who has been highly critical of the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis. The state's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection accused&nbsp;the magnate&nbsp;of serious violations of discipline and the law.&nbsp;Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday that the magnate's friends say they have lost contact with Zhiqiang&nbsp;since March 12 after an article he wrote criticizing the way in which Chinese government responded to the outbreak was widely shared online.&nbsp;Zhiqiang&nbsp;had described the Covid-19 crisis as a 'crisis of governance'&nbsp;and said that the lack of freedom of press and expression in the country further exacerbated the situation caused by the outbreak.
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Germany&rsquo;s Cabinet on Wednesday approved legislation that will make it easier for authorities to prevent foreign takeovers of strategically important companies. The plans pre-date the coronavirus crisis, but come as the German government has vowed to 'stand by local companies' in the face of investors who might now hope to acquire firms cheaply. The new rules, which require parliamentary approval, will lower the threshold for examining and blocking potential takeovers. Authorities will be able to examine whether an acquisition will lead to a 'foreseeable impairment' of public order or security, rather than an 'actual threat' to it at present.

Global trade growth is expected to plummet by up to a third in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday. Warning that the numbers would be "ugly", the apex trade body said world trade is expected to fall by between 13 per cent and 32 per cent in 2020.&nbsp;There were a wide range of possibilities for how trade would be hit by the 'unprecedented' health crisis.&nbsp;However, WTO chief Roberto Azevedo warned the downturn 'may well be the deepest economic recession or downturn of our lifetimes'.&nbsp;

Egypt on Wednesday extended its night-time curfew across the country for two more weeks to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly said all preventive measures his government has taken last month would be extended till April 23. Egypt has closed schools, universities, mosques, churches and archaeological sites including the famed Giza Pyramids. Egypt has reported 1,450 coronavirus cases so far, including 94 deaths.

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