Template:In the news

COVID-19 pandemic

Disease

Virus

By location

Impact

Vaccines

Portal

Comet NEOWISE seen from Germany

• A security breach in the administration system of Twitter results in many prominent accounts promoting a bitcoin scam.
• At least sixteen people are killed in border clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces.
• Comet NEOWISE (pictured) is visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere.

Ongoing:

• China floods
• George Floyd protests

Recent deaths:

• Lalji Tandon
• Tim Smith
• Andrew Mlangeni
• Shane Tuck
• Jack McIlhargey
• Barry Jarman

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