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The total, up from $61.7 million in April, was disclosed as Trump prepared for Saturday's smaller-than-expected rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his first major campaign event since the coronavirus pandemic shut down.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Canada's former ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, meanwhile, urged Ottawa to take a more aggressive stance with Beijing.

The mandate also asks U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to examine government responses to peaceful protests, including accusations of the excessive use of force, and deliver findings in a year's time.

Thursday's 1,50,000 new cases were the highest in a single day so far.

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said India was insistent on keeping their tariffs and 'we're dogged in insisting that we're going to get a fair deal'.

A total of 450,004 people have died from the disease out of 8,395,929 cases reported across the world since COVID-19 emerged in China late last year.

The new case is a man in his 60s who flew in from Lahore in Pakistan, via Doha and Melbourne on June 11, and is in quarantine.

The small municipality of Gallivare, 1,000 km (620 miles) north of the capital and home to about 17,000 people, said on its web page the spread was out of control and dangerous.

L1 visas are reserved for experienced professionals such as managers and executives (L-1A) and those with specialised knowledge in the company’s processes (L-1B).

Rifaat al-Assad, 82, may not be in the dock for judgement, having been hospitalised last December during his trial with internal bleeding.

The study, published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, noted that 1.7 billion people across the world, comprising 22 per cent of the global population, have at least one underlying condition that puts them at increased risk of severe COVID-19 if in...

The problem is that there is no other market to take China’s place as an engine of world growth. India has potential, but is too disorganized, Berlien said.

At a rally for Fuller on Saturday, his sister, Diamond Alexander, said that the initial determination by officials that her brother hanged himself did not make sense.

The vaccine induced neutralising antibodies in "above 90 per cent" of people who were tested 14 days after receiving two injections, two weeks apart. There were no severe side effects reported, the company said in a statement.

Trump used the occasion to thank the US military in the successful fight against the novel coronavirus. The pandemic has so far killed 116,000 Americans and over two million have tested positive.