For the first time, world records 1 million coronavirus cases in 100 hours Global coronavirus infections passed 14 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking the first time there has been a surge of 1 million cases in under 100 hours.

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Trump 'wants to do everything possible to keep peace for people of India, China' United States President Donald Trump has said he wants to do everything possible to keep peace for the people of India and China, according to the White House spokesperson.

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Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others hit in major hack The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers in a massive hack -- who according to cyber police were trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin.

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US revokes controversial order that would have seen foreign students deported The Trump administration has abandoned an order to force out foreign students in the aftermath of widespread condemnation of the move and pressure from colleges and major businesses.

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Russian bounties: Pompeo speaks with Russia's Lavrov about Afghanistan Washington has been in an uproar over reports that Russian intelligence paid bounties for Taliban-linked fighters to kill US forces in Afghanistan.

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Severe floods in China leave over 38 million affected, 141 dead or missing Authorities raised the country's flood response level from level III to level II, the second-highest level.

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The pandemic is just one challenge. Emergency workers have to fight nature's vagaries too. Floods, forest fires, dust clouds... the list goes on. WION's Executive Editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you more about this new crisis.

Gravitas: Natural disasters don't stop for a virus

China has urged more than a dozen provinces to take precautions against another round of heavy rain in the next few days after turbulent weather brought floods to large swathes of the country this month.

Heavy downpours trigger flash floods in large swathes of China

Torrential downpours have caused widespread disruption across southeastern China. More than 2.6 million people have been affected by heavy rain in Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and other southern provinces. Watch report.

Rain triggers flash floods in Southern China: 20,000 people evacuated so far

Typhoon Lekima has affected at least six and a half million people in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Fujian, since making landfall last week.

Typhoon Lekima affects more than 6 million people in China

Rescuers were busy evacuating people stranded or trapped by floods on Tuesday, as torrential rains battered many parts of China. In Guilin City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, shipping service to and from Maozhou Island was suspended due to a severe flood, making the island isolated from the outside world.

Stranded people evacuated from rain-triggered floods across China

'Heavy downpours have already wreaked havoc in central and southern China, flooding several major cities and causing over 200 deaths'

China floods: Public anger erupts over government handling of disaster

Winds of up to 125 kilometres per hour struck Yancheng city and outlying suburbs, destroying houses

78 dead, 200 badly hurt in heavy floods in eastern China

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