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President Trump accuses the Geneva-based UN agency of becoming a puppet of China amid the coronavirus pandemic. US withdrawal to take effect on July 2021.

President Jair Bolsonaro has been downplaying the severity of the global pandemic while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country. More than 65,000 Brazilians have died from COVID-19, and over 1.5 million have been infected.

“The pandemic has also highlighted vulnerabilities to new and emerging forms of terrorism, such as misuse of digital technology, cyber attacks, and bio-terrorism,” he says.

Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions says US has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on Soleimani’s convoy.

"The imagery in my recent editorial cartoon describing state government overreach in Kansas with images of the Holocaust was deeply hurtful to members of a culture who’ve been dealt plenty of hurt throughout history," says Dane Hicks.

“We live in a multipolar world, we live in a multi-confessional world and we need to respect the feelings of believers,” said chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif says Tehran and Beijing will release the details of the deal when it is finalized.

The mask was available for a short time before the online retail giant removed the anti-Semitic item following complaints from shoppers.

Around 7,000 people seek to take part in "flight to nowhere" experiences offered by Taipei's Songshan Airport.

Spokesman for the Iranian mission to the United Nations says any attempt by the US to prevent Iran's lawful trading with any country of its choosing would be an act of "piracy, pure and simple."