U.S. President Donald Trump‘s announcement he was cutting U.S. funding for the World Health Organization prompted criticism Saturday, as spiking infection rates in India and elsewhere served as a reminder the global pandemic is far from contained.

Trump on Friday charged that the WHO didn’t respond adequately to the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the U.N. agency of being under China‘s “total control.” The WHO wouldn’t comment on the announcement but South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize called it an “unfortunate” turn of events. “Certainly, when faced with a serious pandemic, you want all nations in the world to be particularly focused … on one common enemy,” he told reporters.

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Twitter disables Trump campaign's George Floyd video tribute

President Donald Trump points from the rooftop of the Operational Building at NASA before the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020. (PhotThe three minute and 45 second clip is a montage of photos and videos of peaceful marches and police officers hugging protesters interspersed with some scenes of burning buildings and vandalism, set to gentle piano music and Trump speaking.Last month, Twitter placed fact-check warnings on two tweets from Trump's own account that called mail-in ballots “fraudulent” and predicted problems with the November U.S.

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Lauding 'force' against protests, Sen. Cotton raises profile

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Trump threatens military action to quell protest over George Floyd death

For a sixth day protesters gathered in cities across the U.S. to demonstrate against racism, and the death of George Floyd.

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Trump heads to rural Maine but won't escape demonstrators

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Coronavirus treatment: Medical journal Lancet withdraws study flagging HCQ risks

The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19, after the paper's authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data.

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Google: State-based hackers targeted Donald Trump, Joe Biden campaigns

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Jimmy Fallon Shreds Trump Over Plummeting Approval Rating In ‘Tonight’ Monologue

Jimmy Fallon was uncharacteristically serious as he kicked off Thursday night’s at-home edition of “The Tonight Show”, addressing the protests that have been erupting across the globe in response to the death of George Floyd.

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ACLU sues Trump administration over police force on protesters near White House

TOPSHOT - Police officers wearing riot gear push back demonstrators shooting tear gas next to St. John's Episcopal Church outside of the White House, June 1, 2020 in Washington D.C., during a protest over the death of George Floyd. - President Trump

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Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions

Two papers relying on hospital records of COVID-19 patients have been retracted because the company that purportedly analyzed the raw data won’t allow their validity to be independently validated.

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Raw feelings abound as Senate turns back to Russia probe

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Immigrants anxious as they await Supreme Court DACA decision

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COVID-19 study linking hydroxychloroquine, death risk retracted from medical journal

Three of the authors of an influential article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients retracted the study on Thursday, citing concerns about the quality of the data behind it.

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Piers Morgan And Rudy Giuliani Go Head To Head In Heated Exchange: ‘You Sound Completely Barking Mad’

It was a real war of words between Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani this week.

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Brexit: Government won’t rule out US trade deal allowing chlorinated chicken into UK

Downing Street won’t rule out a Brexit trade deal with Donald Trump allowing chlorinated chicken onto British shelves.

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Trump praises Boris Johnson over vaccine fight as Transatlantic tensions simmer

Donald Trump today praised Boris Johnson amid the coronavirus pandemic despite simmering Transatlantic tensions over Covid-19 and racism.

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Brajendra Navnit is India's new ambassador to WTO

Navnit who was till recently served as a joint secretary in the prime minister's office will replace the current ambassador JS Deepak in Geneva for a period of three years

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White House scrambles amid fears of coronavirus resurgence during George Floyd protests

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GOP reckons with polarizing candidates amid civil unrest

WASHINGTON – The Republican Party is facing a reckoning over some of its most divisive candidates. So far the results are mixed, and that's dicey for the GOP as a country shuddering from coast-to-coast civic unrest hurtles toward November elections.

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Protests eclipse pandemic, but White House fears resurgence

WASHINGTON – For weeks, President Donald Trump has been eager to publicly turn the page on the coronavirus pandemic. Now fears are growing within the White House that the very thing that finally shoved the virus from center stage — mass protests over the death of George Floyd — may bring about its resurgence.

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Trump photo op, talk of military force amp up GOP challenge

WASHINGTON – The mumbling and dodging this week by Republicans came straight from the GOP playbook that helped the party endure President Donald Trump’s cringe-inducing choices.

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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises

WASHINGTON – Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.

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BET Invites Donald Trump and Joe Biden for Presidential Forum

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Snapchat removes Trump account from Discover for inciting 'racial violence'

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West Point prepares for graduation, some cadets test positive

Cadets in formation at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (U.S. Department of Defense imagery)

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Doctors kept close eye on Trump's use of malaria drug

Trump showed little change in basic health measurements from 16 months ago

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Senate passes fix for small-business coronavirus relief

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Trudeau Stays Silent On Trump’s Behaviour As George Floyd Protests Spread

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t sharing what he thinks about U.S. President Donald Trump’s language and behaviour amid escalating anti-racism protests, despite facing pointed questions on Tuesday.

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Ex-defense chief Mattis rips Trump for dividing Americans

WASHINGTON – In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump's heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a “false conflict" between the military and civilian society.

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‘He tries to divide us’: Mattis blasts Trump in letter, suggests president is threat to Constitution

President Donald Trump makes a brief address Monday from the Rose Garden after the death of George Floyd last week in Minneapolis police custody has resulted in days of protests, some of them violent, in multiple American cities.

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Trump photo op, talk of military force amp up GOP challenge

WASHINGTON – The mumbling and dodging this week by Republicans came straight from the GOP playbook that helped the party endure President Donald Trump’s cringe-inducing choices.

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States jockey to host Trump as he accepts GOP nomination

WASHINGTON – Several states are vying to host President Donald Trump when he accepts his party’s nomination later this year, after Trump officially pulled the plug on North Carolina because of the state's concerns over the coronavirus.

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Doctors kept close eye on Trump's use of malaria drug

WASHINGTON – The White House medical team kept a close eye on President Donald Trump's heart rhythms, including at least one electrocardiogram, to watch for potential side effects when he took a two-week course of a malaria drug to try to prevent the coronavirus, his doctor reported Wednesday.

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WATCH LIVE: Former President Obama hosts town hall in the wake of George Floyd’s death

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Malaria drug fails to prevent COVID-19 in a rigorous study

Dr. Gabe Kelen, director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, explains how flattening the curve doesn’t necessarily mean a sooner end to the outbreak.

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White House: Trump church visit akin to Churchill WWII role

WASHINGTON – The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s visit to a nearby church where he held up a Bible was a “leadership moment” akin to Winston Churchill’s inspection of bomb-damaged London during World War II, a comparison that drew swift condemnation from the author of a new best-selling book on the former British prime minister.

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Obama steps up public role as U.S. confronts anti-racism, coronavirus crises

Former U.S. President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.

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West Point preps for graduation, some in class test positive

More than 15 members of West Point's graduating class tested positive for the coronavirus upon their return to the the U.S. Military Academy, which is preparing to host President Donald Trump for an unusual graduation ceremony that has been criticized as too risky during a pandemic.

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Hydroxychloroquine safe but not effective in preventing Covid-19, finds study

Just hours after the WHO announced that clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine will resume, the first major study into the drug's effectiveness reported that it was no better than a placebo in preventing symptoms of Covid-19 developing.

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Malaria drug fails to prevent COVID-19 in a rigorous study

A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in health workers and others closely exposed to people with the disease.

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper breaks with Trump, opposes using military for protests

The law gives the president to deploy the U.S. military across the country, but only under certain circumstances.

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Esper breaks with Trump, opposes using military for protests

The law gives the president to deploy the U.S. military across the country, but only under certain circumstances.

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India engaged with US on issue of H-1B visas: Harsh Vardhan Shringla

Harsh Vardhan Shringla said PM Narendra Modi had discussed the issue of H-1B visas, which the US plans to restrict. The talks occurred during US President Donald Trump’s visit to India

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Move over G7, it's time for a new and improved G11

US President Donald Trump is keen to expand G7 to include India, Russia, South Korea and Australia. Mint explores the reasons behind Trump’s moves and whether India should play ball

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Trump to bar Chinese passenger airlines from flying to U.S.: sources

U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration plans to bar Chinese passenger carriers from flying to the United States starting in mid-June as it pressures Beijing to allow U.S. air carriers to resume flights, three U.S. and airline officials briefed on the matter told Reuters.

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Trump threatens to halt Chinese Airline flights to US as relations fray

WASHINGTON : The Trump administration on Wednesday issued an order suspending passenger flights from China-based airlines, saying it was retaliation for Beijing barring American carriers from re-entering that market, in a continued escalation of tensions between the two nations.

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Boris Johnson condemns George Floyd killing, calls for 'lawful' protests

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday condemned the killing of George Floyd by police in the United States but declined to say whether he had spoken about the issue with key ally Donald Trump.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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