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China has vowed to take “all necessary countermeasures” if the United States penalises banks doing business with officials who implement Beijing’s new national security law on Hong Kong.

An armed member of Canada’s military has been arrested after driving a pick-up truck through the gates of an estate where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lives.

Face covering has been made compulsory in Texas as coronavirus cases skyrocket in the State.

More than three dozen U.S. states were seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases, according to a Reuters analysis on Thursday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued an executive order that all Texans don face coverings in public in counties with 20 or more COVID-19 cases.

At least 162 bodies have been found after a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases per day in the U.S. climbed to an all-time high of more than 50,000 on Thursday, with the infection curve rising in 40 out of 50 states in a reversal that has largely spared only the Northeast.

Congress has approved a bill rebuking China over its crackdown in Hong Kong.

The US House of Representatives has approved new Hong Kong-related sanctions after Beijing imposed a security law that was condemned by countries around the world.

US President Donald Trump, who has long resisted wearing a mask in public, has said he likes face coverings and they make him look like the Lone Ranger.

Up to three million Hong Kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship, Boris Johnson has said.

Hong Kong police have made their first arrests under a new “anti-protest” law imposed by Beijing, as crowds marked 23 years since the end of British rule.