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Lufthansa will seek to avoid a grounding and insolvency, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Sunday.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen oversaw the first public test flight of a new locally designed and made advanced jet trainer on Monday, part of her government's plan to boost defenses in the face of a growing challenge from China.

China's economy and its hundreds of millions of consumers are now looking more attractive to many businesses and investors searching for high-growth opportunities.

The move is part of China's push in technology and will wean the country off U.S. satellite technology.

New cases are surging in states across the South, West and Midwest. Seven states hit record cases on Saturday.

A reproduction rate of 2.88 means that out of 100 people who contracted the virus, a further 288 other people will get infected.

President Donald Trump wanted his first mega rally in three months to be a sold-out lovefest that would revive his struggling reelection campaign. That's not what happened.

The wall of money flowing into banks has no precedent in history: in April alone, deposits grew by $865 billion, more than the previous record for an entire year.

"This was an atrocity," chief U.K. counter-terrorism officer Neil Basu said, describing unarmed police officers as having subdued the assailant.

The government on Sunday said it would introduce changes to the Enterprise Act on Monday to allow it to intervene if a business involved in a pandemic response became a target of a takeover.

Socotra, a UNESCO World Heritage site due to its unique natural environment, is located in the shipping lane linking Asia to the Europe via the Red sea and Suez Canal.

A strike was intended to open a new arena of resistance, but organizers said only 8,943 union members participated in a city-wide poll, falling short of the 60,000 threshold to go ahead.

Spain reopened its borders to British tourists on Sunday in a bid to kickstart its economy while Brazil and South Africa struggled with rising levels of coronavirus infections.

The office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is investigating Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and obtained a conviction of his past lawyer, Michael Cohen.

President Donald Trump said he will replace Geoffrey Berman as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton. Berman refuses to quit.

A federal judge on Saturday denied a request by the Department of Justice to halt the sale and distribution of a forthcoming memo by former Trump national security advisor John Bolton.

Carnival Cruise Line, which is owned by the world's largest cruise company, Carnival Corp., had previously announced plans to resume some U.S. operations on Aug. 1.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Friday that the company will have to postpone its annual shareholder meeting which was scheduled for July 7 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The National Institutes of Health has halted its clinical trial of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after finding that the treatment provides no benefit to COVID-19 patients.

Brazil has passed 1 million coronavirus cases and approached 50,000 deaths, a new nadir for the world's second worst-hit country as it struggles with a tense political climate and worsening economic outlook.