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She expressed dismay after the US president exaggerated the new virus outbreak in New Zealand as a "huge surge" that Americans would do well to avoid.

Neither the US nor the Chinese government confirmed the talks but the deal mandates meetings every six months after it takes effect, which would be Saturday.

Analysts said easing concerns about the future of the China-US trade pact and healthy China data also provided some cheer to investors.

With much of the world caught in a cycle of dispiriting outbreaks and economically crushing lockdowns, all eyes are on the race for a vaccine.

Health Secretary Alex Azar is in Taipei for a three-day visit to promote shared democratic values and the island's success in taming the coronavirus.

It will be just the second country to cross that grim threshold, after the United States, where the death toll is now over 150,000.

A scientific committee advising the French government warned that the country could lose control of its spread "at any time."

Deborah Birx added that sticking to guidelines -- such as wearing a mask, maintaining personal hygiene and observing social distancing -- was crucial.

The garden was redesigned by Rachel Lambert Mellon and US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961.

CEOs Tim Cook of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google were grilled for more than five hours.

China joined the US and UAE this month in launching a mission to Mars, taking advantage of a period when Mars and Earth are favourably aligned.

Kim was addressing a conference of veterans on the 67th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended Korean War hostilities.

The global economic outlook remains clouded, putting the brakes on a months-long stocks rally.

WHO says Brazil and India had recently reported highest daily increases, while figures remain worryingly high in the US and South Africa.

The US, the hardest-hit country by the virus, added one million new cases in just over two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Economists suggested the weak data could spur US lawmakers to push on with fresh stimulus measures as their previous package comes to an end soon.

Trump's Democratic challenger Joe Biden, whom he derides as "weak," "sleepy" and mentally incompetent, leads by double digits in some polls.

The Chinese mission has been named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven") in a nod to a classical poem that has verses about the cosmos.

Reports said Mitch McConnell would soon unveil a $1 trillion plan after overcoming some differences with the White House.

The female nursing staff gave fatal doses of insulin to 7 non-diabetic veterans.

The accusations came even before the publication of a long-awaited British parliamentary report into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit vote.