In a discovery that could offer some clues in a decades-old mystery, human bone fragments have been found in a Vatican-owned property in Rome. The development has raised speculations about possible links with the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, who went missing in 1983 when she was 15 years old. Orlandi was the daughter of a Vatican employee, and her disappearance remains one of the most high-profile cases that has so far eluded any answers.

A hundred Italian doctors have died of the novel coronavirus since the pandemic reached the Mediterranean country in February. Italian&nbsp;doctors&nbsp;federation&nbsp;said on Thursday that&nbsp;four doctors died in the last 24 hours.&nbsp;Some 30 nurses have died from the virus.&nbsp;The toll includes retired doctors who had voluntarily returned to work during the outbreak.&nbsp;They were among some&nbsp;8,000 medical&nbsp;staff&nbsp;to volunteer&nbsp;last month for an emergency coronavirus task force.&nbsp;

India on Thursday rejected a reference to Jammu and Kashmir by China in the UN, asserting that the union territory "has been, is and shall continue" to be its integral part. Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said India expects China to refrain from commenting on matters internal to India and the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.&nbsp;Srivastava was responding to a query on the remarks by the Chinese spokesperson.

The UN Security Council is set to hold a secret meeting on the Covid-19 pandemic amid divisions on recognising its origin and international action. The Dominican Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council, said that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will brief the meeting on his call for a global ceasefire, the pandemic's impact on peacekeeping operations and the humanitarian response. China and Russia were reported to be opposed to the meeting, while the US wanted China be named as the source of the pandemic. The initiative for the meeting came from nine of the 10 non-permanent members of the Council led by Germany. South Africa did not join the effort.

The head of the hospital central to Wuhan's efforts to treat coronavirus patients said on Thursday that 'another outbreak of this large scale was unlikely'.&nbsp;Zhang&nbsp;Dingyu, who is the chief of Jinyintan Hospital, said the virus will not disappear and that sporadic cases mean that 'now we need to have a ward or an area to deal with this disease'&nbsp;Wuhan's unprecedented lockdown was a model for countries trying to stop the coronavirus.&nbsp;

Bangladesh has imposed a complete lockdown&nbsp;in Cox's Bazar district -- home to over a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar -- to halt the spread of coronavirus, officials said Thursday.&nbsp; Experts have warned that the disease could spread quickly through the cramped, sewage-soaked alleys where the persecuted Muslim minority are housed in canvas and bamboo shacks.&nbsp;No cases have been confirmed in the camps so far. Bangladesh has reported 200 coronavirus&nbsp;cases nationwide in the last five days, including 20 deaths.

The German city of Frankfurt has started a mobile test facility on a bus to visit employees and residents of nursing homes and other community care facilities that house people with limited mobility.&nbsp;The results of the testing will be available after 24- 72 hours, according to officials.&nbsp;City officials expect to carry out some 8,000 tests in around 50 facilities.&nbsp;

Two planeloads of Eastern European farmhands arrived on Thursday in Berlin and Duesseldorf amid strict precautions to protect the country from the new coronavirus as an ambitious German program to import seasonal workers to help work the fields got underway.&nbsp;Seasonal workers had been caught up in the country's ban on travel after the outbreak of the coronavirus, leaving a massive deficit in personnel available to pick asparagus, which has already sprouted, and plant other crops in German fields, which employed some 300,000 such workers last year.&nbsp;

China's foreign ministry on Thursday backed World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus amid a spat with Taiwan.&nbsp;Tedros accused Taiwan of instigating racist personal attacks on him at a briefing on Wednesday, prompting Taiwan's foreign ministry on Thursday to strongly protest.&nbsp;At China's insistence, Taiwan has been barred from the UN and the WHO and even stripped of its observer status at the annual World Health Assembly.&nbsp;At the same time, it has one of the most robust public health systems in the world.&nbsp;

China's foreign ministry on Thursday said it would further verify reports that Chinese masks bought by Finland were unfit for hospital use. Bejing said the masks&nbsp;were bought through middlemen.&nbsp;China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately needed items to struggling governments, hoping to build political ties and defuse criticism that it allowed the disease to spread early on.&nbsp;The Finnish government said Wednesday that two million masks purchased from China were also unsuitable for use in hospitals, calling it a "disappointment".&nbsp;

Iran's health ministry on Thursday said 117 new deaths from the novel coronavirus took the total to 4,110 in one of the&nbsp;countries&nbsp;worst hit by the pandemic.&nbsp;But ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said the latest figures showed there was a downward trend in the number of new coronavirus infections.&nbsp;1,634 new cases have been identified, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 66,220.&nbsp;

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.

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