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Newsnow Desk: Chancellor Angela Merkel announced steps on Wednesday to ease the coronavirus lockdown in Germany but at the same time launched an "emergency brake" mechanism allowing for…

Newsnow Desk: Venezuelan state television broadcast on Wednesday a video of captured American Luke Denman, in which he said he was instructed to seize control of Caracas's airport and bring…

Newsnow Desk: As night falls, worshippers file into the Abdullah bin Masood mosque, in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, hurrying up the steps to attend newly recommenced congregational…

Newsnow Desk: At least nine people have been killed and several hundred admitted to hospitals after a gas leak at a chemicals plant on the east coast of India, police said on Thursday. An…

Newsnow Desk: In a surprise move, Air Arabia, a Sharjah-based low-cost airline, has opened regular passenger flight bookings on its online reservation portal with effect from June 1. The…

Newsnow Desk: As France counts the toll from the Covid-19 pandemic, Muslims in the country have sometimes struggled to find space in cemeteries to bury their loved ones. FRANCE 24 talks to…

Newsnow Desk: The international aviation governing body on Tuesday said it is opposed to social distancing during flights, claiming that “evidence” suggests that the risk of transmission on…

Newsnow Desk: With the general election just six months away, and the global economy in shambles because of the coronavirus, there is increasing urgency inside the White House and among…

Newsnow Desk: Italians are claiming they have made the world's first coronavirus vaccine that work on humans, Science Times reported on Tuesday. "According to the tests carried out at Rome's…

Newsnow Desk: The General Assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) has approved the request of the UAE government and its Executive Committee to postpone Dubai Expo 2020 to…