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The last five-year period has been the warmest five years on record, said the Geneva-based United Nations agency, which counts 193 member states.

The two-term lieutenant governor said his three days as governor were "fully packed." A conservative Democrat, Mixson made close to 200 appointments before Republican Bob Martinez was sworn in as governor.

Philip Barton, who was previously posted in the country in the 1990s and had named his daughter 'India', presented his credentials to President Ram Nath Kovind as the UK's new High Commissioner here at a virtual ceremony.

The school year in the East African country runs from January to November, when it climaxes with the end-of-term exams. But Education Minister George Magoha said the curve of COVID-19 infections was expected to flatten only by December.

Loans that appear to breach the letter or spirit of the rules may not be forgiven, and the Treasury plans to conduct a full review of loans of more than $2 million.

Authorities in the financial hub have ordered schools to remove books for review under the new law, which has criminalized certain opinions such as calls for independence or autonomy.

The popular drug, called Mediator, became one of France's biggest modern health scandals, and the trial is wrapping up Monday after more than six months of proceedings targeting both Servier and France's medicines watchdog.

Normally ice reflects more than 80 percent of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere, but as algae appear, they darken the ice so that it absorbs the heat and melts more quickly.

Two Greenville County sheriff's deputies noticed a disturbance at Lavish Lounge just before 2 a.m., and saw a large crowd running out of the building, Sheriff Hobart Lewis said at a press conference.

Vietnam and the Philippines have also criticised the planned Chinese drills, warning they could create tension in the region and impact Beijing's relationship with its neighbours.

Trump in recent weeks has increasingly lashed out at “left-wing mobs," used a racist epithet to refer to the coronavirus and visited the nation’s southern border to spotlight progress on his 2016 campaign promise to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

The recent surge, most pronounced in southern and western states, has alarmed public health officials, who urged caution ahead of a July 4th holiday weekend to celebrate the Declaration of Independence of the United States in 1776.

The late-stage trial was expected to start next week, but there is no clarity about how long the delay will last, the report said. The company is still aiming to start the trial in July, according to the report.

Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, told a Geneva news conference that felines, ferrets and "even tigers" have been infected with the disease.

The study, submitted to the journal Foundations of Data Science, suggests it is possible to make reasonably accurate predictions of how easing measures might affect the spread of the virus up to two weeks in advance.

The jump comes after the city of 14 million sought to hold new daily cases at fewer than 20 since the government lifted a state of emergency on May 25, only t.