Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad lost a power struggle to a little-known ex-interior minister on Sunday in a surprising outcome of a Parliament vote. Muhyiddin Yassin will be sworn in on Sunday as the new Prime Minister, according to the Malaysian Palace.&nbsp;Muhyiddin's coalition is dominated by the multi-ethnic country's Muslim majority and includes the United Malays National Organisation, a scandal-plagued party.&nbsp;Muhyiddin, a former Mahathir ally, had joined forces with UMNO in a bid to win power. His coalition also includes a hardline Muslim party that is pushing for Islamic laws. The current crisis began when Mahathir and Anwar's&nbsp;alliance, which stormed to a historic victory two years ago collapsed a week ago.

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad lost a power struggle to a little-known ex-interior minister on Sunday in a surprising outcome of a Parliament vote. Muhyiddin Yassin will be sworn in on Sunday as the new Prime Minister, according to the Malaysian Palace. Muhyiddin's coalition is dominated by the multi-ethnic country's Muslim majority and includes the United Malays National Organisation, a scandal-plagued party. Muhyiddin, a former Mahathir ally, had joined forces with UMNO in a bid to win power. His coalition also includes a hardline Muslim party that is pushing for Islamic laws. The current crisis began when Mahathir and Anwar's alliance, which stormed to a historic victory two years ago collapsed a week ago.

The death toll around the world due to coronavirus crossed 35,000 mark on Monday evening, with Italy heading the list casualties. Out of the 35,097 deaths 10,779 have died in Italy.&nbsp;While&nbsp;the number of cumulative cases rose to 737,929, US lead&nbsp;with 143,055, as per data from the Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Centre.&nbsp;Spain was second with 7,340 deaths, followed by China with 3,308.&nbsp;Meanwhile, 156,652 people around the world have&nbsp;recovered, with nearly half of them in China.

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle&nbsp;have made it clear that will be asking the US government&nbsp;for help with security costs. The couple issued a statement after US President on Twitter states that the US will not pay for their protection.&nbsp;A spokeswoman for the couple said, "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have no plans to ask the US government for security resources. Privately funded security arrangements have been made". The controversy erupted after it became public that they&nbsp;had recently relocated to Los Angeles.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is self-isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus, took to social media once again and in a significant departure from the Conservative Party roots and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's infamous declaration that "there is no such thing as society", the British Prime Minister&nbsp;delivered a contradictory message as he asked public to follow social distancing norms to help collectively control the spread of the deadly virus. &ldquo;We are going to do&nbsp;it,&nbsp;we are going to do it together. One thing I think the coronavirus crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society," he said in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday evening.&nbsp;

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&nbsp;is in&nbsp;quarantine after an aide on parliamentary affairs tested positive for coronavirus.&nbsp;Netanyahu's&nbsp;office said the step was a precaution and is being taken even before the epidemiological investigation has been concluded. So far, 4,347 Israelis have tested positive for the coronavirus, with the vast majority of cases mild and 134 recoveries. Sixteen patients have died and 95 are in serious condition.

Seven days after it was confirmed that he had tested positive for coronavirus,&nbsp;Britain's Prince Charles came out of self-isolation on Monday.&nbsp;The 71-year-old heir to the British throne had been self-isolating on the Queen's Balmoral estate in Scotland after he had been tested by the National Health Service in&nbsp;Aberdeenshire&nbsp;last week.&nbsp;His Clarence House royal office said the prince was in "good health" and was following the government's restrictions as he carries on working from home.&nbsp;His wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, had tested negative for the deadly virus at the same time, but the 72-year-old had also been self-isolating separately in Balmoral.&nbsp;

China's manufacturing sector has steadily resumed production, with 98.6 per cent of major industrial firms resuming work amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Monday. Around 89.9 per cent of employees in industrial companies with an annual revenue of more than $2 million have returned to their workplaces.&nbsp;In Hubei, where the pandemic originated in its capital Wuhan last December, the average work resumption rate of industrial firms has&nbsp;surpassed 95 per cent so far.&nbsp;Meanwhile, 76 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide have also resumed operations.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Shopkeepers in the city at the centre of China's virus outbreak started reopening on Monday but customers were scarce. This after authorities lifted more anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. Some 70-80% of shops in Chuhe Hanjie pedestrian mall in Wuhan were open Monday, but many imposed limits on how many people could enter. Customers have been made to wear masks, cooperate with fever checks and show the health code before they are allowed to enter the shopping area.

The lockdown in the UK to try to slow the spread of coronavirus could go on for six months and the country may not return to its normal way of life until the autumn, according to a&nbsp;key government doctor. Deputy chief medical officer for England, Dr Jenny Harries, said at Downing Street&rsquo;s daily press conference, that the effectiveness of the current restrictions would be reviewed at the end of the original three-week period.&nbsp;She added that&nbsp;lifting lockdown too soon could risk second wave of infection.

US President Donald Trump insists that the United States government won&rsquo;t pay for the security of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, if they live in the United States. Unconfirmed reports say the couple and their 10-month-old son Archie recently flew to Los Angeles, where Meghan was raised. Responding to reports that the couple has moved to California, Trump tweeted on Sunday saying, he was a great friend and admirer of the Queen &amp; the United Kingdom, but added that the US will not foot the bill for Harry and Meghan's security. The former royals have been based in Vancouver, since late last year. Last month, Canadian authorities said they would stop paying for the couple&rsquo;s security once they ceased to be working royals.

President Donald Trump on Sunday extended the voluntary national shutdown for a month, bowing to public-health experts who told him the coronavirus pandemic could claim over 100,000 lives in the US. Trump, who has largely avoided talk of potential death and infection rates, cited projection models that said potentially 2.2 million people or more could have died had the country not put social distancing measures in place. The U.S. had more than 139,000 COVID-19 cases reported by Sunday evening, with more than 2,400 deaths. "The peak, the highest point of death rates, remember, this is likely to hit in two weeks. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before victory is won - that would be the greatest loss of all", said Trump from the Rose Garden.

Pakistan Army has deployed troops across the country, including Pakistan occupied Kashmir to assist civilian authorities in containing the spread of Covid-19. The deployment was approved by Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar&nbsp;Javed&nbsp;Bajwa on the request of the Interior Ministry. Pakistan is under lockdown&nbsp;with&nbsp;only hospitals, shops selling food items, medical stores, and food and medicine manufacturing industries open. 12 people have succumbed to Covid-19, and 25 have recovered&nbsp;in the country that has seen over 1200 infections.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will remain in self-imposed isolation even though his wife, who had contracted the coronavirus, has recovered. Although Sophie Trudeau received the all-clear from her physicians on Saturday, the prime minister said, he had been sharing a roof with someone who tested positive, and added that he will be following all the protocols and the recommendations by Health Canada.

The US government's topmost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;Dr. Anthony Fauci, while speaking on CNN's &lsquo;State of the Union&rsquo; on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the US government weighs rolling back guidelines on social distancing in areas that have not been hard-hit by the outbreak at the end of the nationwide 15-day effort to slow the spread of the virus.&nbsp;&lsquo;I would say between 100,000 and 200,000&nbsp;deaths,&nbsp;Fauci, who is&nbsp;director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,&nbsp;was quoted as saying.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

A finance minister of&nbsp;a&nbsp;province in Germany has committed suicide&nbsp;apparently after becoming &lsquo;deeply worried&rsquo; over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus.&nbsp;Volker&nbsp;Bouffier, the premier of&nbsp;Germany's Hesse state said that finance minister Thomas Schaefer&nbsp;was found dead near a railway track on Saturday.&nbsp;Hesse is home to Germany's financial capital Frankfurt, where major lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have their headquarters. The European Central Bank is also located in Frankfurt.&nbsp;Schaefer&nbsp;had been working&nbsp;&lsquo;day and night&rsquo;&nbsp;to help companies and workers deal with the economic impact of the pandemic.&nbsp;

The Jack Ma Foundation and the Alibaba Foundation have donated essential medical supplies to India along with six more countries -- Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Collectively, these seven countries will receive a total of 1.7 million face masks, 1,65,000 test kits as well as protective clothing and medical equipment such as ventilators, forehead thermometers. With this announcement, the two foundations have now donated essential medical supplies to 23 Asian countries, totalling 7.4 million masks, 4,85,000 test kits. The first batch of medical supplies for India arrived in Delhi on Saturday night and was received by the Indian Red Cross Society.
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Pope Francis on Sunday backed the UN secretary general's call for a cease-fire in all conflicts across the globe to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.&nbsp;Francis spoke during his traditional Sunday blessing.&nbsp;He cited UN chief Antonio Guterres' appeal this week for a global truce 'to focus together on the true fight of our lives' against the virus.&nbsp;He also cited the virus risks posed to inmates, and said his thoughts are with those unable to self-isolate, citing in particular those in elderly homes, and military barracks.&nbsp;

Spain confirmed another 838 deaths in 24 hours from coronavirus on Sunday, which is a new daily record bringing the total number of deaths to 6,528. According to health ministry figures the number of confirmed cases in Spain has now reached 78,797 -- after an increase of 9.1 percent in one day -- as the country battles the world's second most deadly outbreak.

Spain's Princess Maria Teresa of the house of Bourbon-Parma has become the first royal to succumb from the novel coronavirus. 86-year-old Teresa was a cousin of Spain's King Felipe VI and died after contracting COVID-19.&nbsp;
Hear death comes as cases in Spain continue to climb&nbsp;at an alarming rate.&nbsp;The number of deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours is 832.
Other royals who have publicly confirmed positive tests for the COVID-19 virus include&nbsp;Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne and&nbsp;62-year-old Prince Albert II of Monaco.&nbsp;
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Warning Britons as he self-isolates himself in quarantine, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the coronavirus crisis will get worse before it gets better. Johnson's letter is being sent to every UK household along with a leaflet detailing government rules on leaving the house and health information. Boris Johnson, who tested positive for Covid-19, says stricter restrictions could be put in place if necessary. The number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has now crossed 1,019, with 260 deaths announced on Saturday.

The United States has announced emergency humanitarian financial aid of $274 million to 64 countries who are at most risk to combat coronavirus. US Secretary Mike Pompeo said, India will receive $2.9 million, to help prepare laboratory systems, activate case finding and event-based surveillance, and support technical experts for response &amp; preparedness.

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