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;

A finance minister of a province in Germany has committed suicide apparently after becoming ‘deeply worried’ over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Volker Bouffier, the premier of Germany's Hesse state said that finance minister Thomas Schaefer was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. 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. Schaefer had been working ‘day and night’ to help companies and workers deal with the economic impact of the pandemic.

China's legislature on Thursday approved controversial national security laws for Hong Kong. Delegates of China&rsquo;s National People&rsquo;s Congress broke out into applause in Beijing&rsquo;s Great Hall of the People after voting through a draft decision that paves the way for sweeping anti-sedition laws to be directly enacted in Hong Kong. The legislation, aimed at stamping out protests that have racked the city for the past year, would ban &ldquo;any acts or activities&rdquo; that endanger China&rsquo;s national security, including separatism, subversion and terrorism. The legislation would also allow &ldquo;national security agencies&rdquo; &ndash; potentially Chinese security forces &ndash; to operate in Hong Kong.

Continuing his Twitter rant against China, US President on Thursday said, all over the world the coronavirus, a very bad 'gift' from China. His tweet came minutes after issuing a statement on the US crossed 1 lakh coronavirus deaths. Trump said the US has reached a very sad milestone and extended his sympathy and love to the families of victims, for everything that they stood for.

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order targeting social media firms, the White House has confirmed. The move comes after he threatened to shut down social media platforms he accused of stifling conservative voices. The latest dispute emerged after Twitter added fact-check links to his tweets for the first time. The details of the executive order have not been made public and it is unclear what regulatory steps the president can take without new laws passed by Congress.

The US Labour Department has announced that 2.1 million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last week. Since mid-March, more than 40 million Americans have lost their jobs - that's about a quarter of the US workforce. Last month, the unemployment rate hit nearly 15%, which is the highest since the Great Depression. These latest numbers come as all 50 states begin to ease Covid-19 restrictions in some form and businesses nationwide slowly start to reopen. The United States' Covid-19 death toll has passed 100,000, the highest in the world.

In an exclusive interview with CNN-News18, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka wants to maintain good relations with both India and China as the two countries find themselves involved in another border standoff. Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka follows a non-aligned foreign policy with all nations and both India and China are valued friends. There have been considerable concerns in India over China's growing presence in the Indian Ocean region. India has been trying to expand maritime cooperation with Sri Lanka, to check the growing Chinese assertiveness in the region.

After Twitter's slap in the wrist to US president Donald Trump with fact-check flags on his tweets, its boss is taking Trump head on. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a series of tweets reinforced his stance on pointing out "incorrect and disputed information about elections globally". Dorsey's tough stance comes a day after Trump threatened to shut social media over Twitter fact-checking him. Dorsey also appealed to "leave Twitter employees&nbsp;out" of the feud as he stated that their accountability lay with him.

As if Elon Musk's son's name wasn't confusing enough, they've gone ahead and added a roman numeral to it. The baby will be called X &AElig; A-Xii. The announcement was made by his mother, Canadian singer Grimes on Twitter. She said the roman numerals looked 'cooler'&nbsp;Twitter's response to the name change is hilarious!

The government may impose anti-dumping duty on imports of a certain type of rubber used in various industries. The domestic industry has approached the commerce ministry to investigate the alleged dumping of the product from China, European Union, Japan and Russia. Dumping of the product from these countries is impacting the domestic industry.&nbsp;In international trade parlance, dumping happens when a country or a firm exports an item at a price lower than the price of that product in its domestic market.

The death of a black man in US who was pinned down by a white Minneapolis police officer has sparked widespread outrage and protests. The cop pinned down the victim, George Floyd, with his knee on his neck on Monday as he yelled "I cannot breathe". Four police officers have been terminated after the incident. The video of the incident showed the cop continuing to hold down Floyd with his knee for several minutes, with Floyd pleading and asking for water.

SpaceX's landmark launch to the International Space Station -- the first crewed mission to blast off from US soil in almost a decade -- was postponed on Wednesday due to bad weather. The mission was called off just 20 minutes before the launch. Officials cited the threat of lightning, among other factors. It means a wait of at least a few more days for the first crewed launch on an American rocket since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. They will try again on Saturday. If successful, the launch will be the first time the feat has been performed by a privately-owned company.

Cyprus has pledged to cover the holiday costs of anyone who tests positive for the virus after travelling there. It is part of a package of measures aimed at drawing visitors back to the island, which has reported few cases. The government said it would pay for accommodation, medicine and food for patients and their families. The country has 939 confirmed infections and 17 deaths.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets and accused him of making false claims. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen," Trump tweeted. Twitter targeted two tweets the president posted on Tuesday in which he contended without evidence that mail-in voting would lead to fraud and a "rigged election."

The United States on Wednesday surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths. Confirmed US deaths on Thursday stood at 100,047, with 17 lakh infections, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paused during a news conference to note the staggering toll of the "villainous virus," even as states cautiously re-open their shuttered, devastated economies.

Nepal parliament has delayed taking up the constitutional amendment for the new Nepal Map that was to be taken up by the House of Representative.&nbsp;The recently released new Nepal Map, which shows&nbsp;Indian territories&nbsp;as its territories, can get legal backing only after the constitution is amended.&nbsp;No reason has been given why Constitution Amendment Bill for Nepal Map was removed from the agenda. The initiative was taken by the government with the opposition Nepal Congress yet to endorse it in its central committee meeting.&nbsp; &nbsp;

China on Wednesday said that the situation at the border with India is "overall stable and controllable," and both the countries have proper mechanisms and communication channels to resolve the issues through a dialogue and consultation.&nbsp;The comments by the Foreign Ministry spokesman came in the backdrop of the continuing standoff between the militaries of India and China at the Line of Actual Control.&nbsp;Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao&nbsp;Lijian, during a media briefing, said that China's position on the border related issues is clear and consistent.&nbsp;

US president Donald Trump, on Wednesday, tweeted that the United States is &lsquo;ready, willing and able&rsquo; to mediate in India and China&rsquo;s border dispute.&nbsp;Trump said the US had already informed both countries of its decision to arbitrate. He also referred to the border tension as &lsquo;raging&rsquo;.&nbsp;Several areas along the LAC in Ladakh and North Sikkim have seen a military build-up by the Indian and Chinese armies, in a sign of escalating tension and hardening of positions by the two nations two weeks after they were engaged in separate face-offs.&nbsp;The nearly 3,500-km-long LAC is the de-facto border between the two countries.&nbsp;

A Chinese survey team on Wednesday became the first group to climb Mount Everest this year, part of a project to remeasure the exact height of the world's tallest mountain, state media reported.&nbsp;Data on snow depth, weather and wind speed is also being measured to aid in glacier monitoring and ecological protection, it said. The 53-member team could be the only people this year to climb the peak as both China and Nepal canceled the spring climbing season to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading among expedition teams.&nbsp;

Iran's newly elected parliament convened under strict social distancing regulations on Wednesday, as the country struggles to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.&nbsp;Iranian state TV said all 268 lawmakers who were in attendance had tested negative for the virus.&nbsp;Temperatures were taken before lawmakers entered the parliament and many arrived wearing facemasks.&nbsp;President Hassan Rouhani addressed the lawmakers, urging them to cooperate with his administration so that together Iranians can better "confront sanctions and the disease".&nbsp;Iran is grappling with the deadliest outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 7,500 fatalities out of over 139,500 confirmed cases.&nbsp;

For the first time, Twitter has flagged some of the US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s tweets with a fact-check warning. Trump claimed in tweets that mail-in ballots would be &ldquo;substantially fraudulent&rdquo; and result in a &ldquo;rigged election. Hours later, Twitter posted a blue exclamation mark alert underneath those tweets, prompting readers to &ldquo;get the facts about mail-in ballots&rdquo;. Trump lashed out at the company accusing it of interfering in the 2020 presidential election.

Most viruses and other germs do not spread easily on flights, the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said in its Covid-19 guidelines which do not recommend following social distancing between two passengers inside a plane or keeping the middle seat vacant. However, it noted that the air travellers were not risk-free especially in the time of a pandemic, and recommended Americans to avoid air travel as far as possible. The CDC said, air travel requires spending time in security lines and airport terminals, which can bring a person in close contact with other people and frequently touched surfaces. But instead of recommended social distancing inside commercial planes, the CDC has advised a series of preventive and hygienic measures to be taken by the airline pilot and crew to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

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