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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts.

(Barbados Today) “From all indication, LIAT will be liquidated,” Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced yesterday.

BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Malawi’s opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera was yesterday declared the winner of a re-run presidential election, a dramatic reversal of incumbent Peter Mutharika’s discredited win 13 months earlier in a process that analysts viewed as a triumph for democracy in Africa.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have figured out how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have been able to support microbial life in the past.

(Reuters) – Dr. Gopi Patel recalls how powerless she felt when New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital overflowed with COVID-19 patients in March.

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) – Pine trees are bursting into flames. Boggy peatlands are tinderbox dry.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Justin Bieber has filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against two women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

BLANTYRE, (Reuters) – Malawi President Peter Mutharika, facing likely defeat when the result of this week’s presidential election is announced, said today there had been voting irregularities including violence and intimidation against his party’s election monitors.

LUBBOCK, Texas,  (Reuters) – The United States recorded at least 40,870 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, the largest single-day increase of the pandemic, according to a Reuters tally, bringing the total number of Americans to who have tested positive to at least 2.475 million.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan is grounding 262 airline pilots suspected of dodging their exams following inquiries into their qualifications, the aviation minister said yesterday in a move that has caused global concern.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – The novel coronavirus, now spreading through the smaller towns of Brazil’s interior, risks returning to major cities in a so-called “boomerang effect,” as a lack of specialized medical treatment forces patients into larger urban centers.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday Washington was imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong, but he did not name any of those targeted.

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said yesterday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company’s policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information, including those from politicians.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico City’s chief of police was shot and injured and two of his bodyguards killed in a dramatic assassination attempt early yesterday that he quickly blamed on one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian President Ivan Duque yesterday called Venezuela a public health “time bomb,” and said the lack of reliable information about the status of its neighbour’s coronavirus outbreak was a worry as his administration tries to control its own infections.

LONDON/GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization-led coalition fighting the coronavirus needs $31.3 billion over the next 12 months to develop and roll out tests, treatments and vaccines, it said today.

LUBBOCK, Texas,  (Reuters) – The governor of Texas temporarily halted the state’s reopening on Thursday as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations surged and the country set a new record for a one-day increase in cases.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping Democratic police reform bill yesterday, sending the measure to the Senate despite opposition from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The attorney general for the District of Columbia yesterday filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Chevron Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for “systematically and intentionally misleading” consumers about the role their products play in causing climate change, the latest action by a U.S.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will ground a third of its 434 pilots on suspicion that they hold “dubious” licences and flying certificates, a company spokesman said yesterday, prompting concern from international safety and transport bodies.