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PARIS (AP) – As France prepares to start letting public life resume after eight weeks under a coronavirus lockdown, many parents are deeply torn over a question without a clear or correct answer: Should I send my child back to school?

Italy’s Catholic bishops’ conference (CEI) announced this week that an accord has been reached with the government for the re-initiation of public worship, with a series of restrictions.

Queen Elizabeth II marked the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day with an address to the British Commonwealth honouring the sacrifice of the fallen.

Chinese security officials threatened a Wuhan man trying to build a monument dedicated to Chinese coronavirus victims, the Epoch Times reported on Tuesday.

China renewed its backing of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday, with a senior Chinese diplomat saying there will be no inspection of the Wuhan origins of the coronavirus until Beijing says so – and only then after the pandemic is beaten.

In the course of its days-long sputtering tirade against U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese state media on Tuesday blasted Pompeo’s Christianity and claimed the entire Trump administration has been “kidnapped” by evangelicals.

Chinese state media outlets published several reports on Tuesday and Wednesday hinting at a foreign, Western origin for the Chinese coronavirus, including confirmation of cases in California in February and remarks by a New Jersey mayor who said he felt sick last year.

Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued the COVID-19 virus could be a product of the lab but, at the same time, “naturally occurring.”

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday sided with the Chinese Communist Party and rejected claims by Washington that a secretive laboratory in the southern China city of Wuhan spawned the global coronavirus epidemic.

United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.

Banks will introduce a bill on Tuesday to prevent China from making “predatory” investments in American firms during the coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese state media on Monday was brimming with upbeat accounts of travelers crossing the country and flooding into tourist attractions to celebrate May Day, a major holiday for the Communist country.

Chinese state media on Monday claimed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was merely bluffing when he said on Sunday there is “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus originated at a laboratory in Wuhan, China. 

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus writes that the new lawsuit by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt may help Americans get answers about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak that China’s Communist Party is clearly trying to hide. From Fox News: Last week, reports showed that

Taiwan has “not yet” received an invitation to a meeting this month of the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) lead decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, the government said on Monday.

Foreign states are mounting “utterly reprehensible” cyber-attacks against British universities researching the coronavirus, according to security sources. 

(AFP) — Europe on Sunday prepared for a further cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions following signs the pandemic may be slowing, after Spaniards flocked to the streets to jog, cycle and rollerskate for the first time after 48 days of confinement.

The intelligence community has not ruled out the coronavirus was a bioweapon, but there is more belief that it was research that escaped.

A Chinese man whose father died of coronavirus on February 1 after being admitted to a Wuhan hospital for an unrelated issue told Al Jazeera this week he blames the Wuhan government for the death.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intentionally destroyed evidence and covered up news about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to the “endangerment of other countries”, a leaked intelligence report has found.

Dr. Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) representative in China, told Sky News on Friday that the Chinese have refused W.H.O.’s repeated requests to participate in an investigation of the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday lamented a lack of global leadership in the fight against the Chinese coronavirus while pointing to a poor response to his call for extra funds to underwrite the battle.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday issued a rare, unanimous Intelligence Community (IC) statement on the origins of the novel coronavirus, confirming that the IC is investigating whether the outbreak “began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”

Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, has warned that Britain is “nowhere near the end” of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

China’s state newspaper China Daily – typically one of the least belligerent in the stable of Communist Party-run outlets – published a column Thursday claiming that America had a history of “bacteriological warfare” to imply the possibility the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was created by the U.S. military.

A Chinese firm conducting trial coronavirus vaccine research is reportedly looking for foreign human guinea pigs to step up and volunteer to test their work.

Australia’s refusal to retreat from its call for a global inquiry into the causes of the coronavirus pandemic continued to draw a furious response from Beijing on Wednesday, with Chinese media claiming Australia is forever making trouble, “a bit like chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes.”

Residents of the city of Wuhan, source of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, expressed doubts about the Chinese government’s claim on Monday that absolutely no one is currently hospitalized with Chinese coronavirus.

Claims a maximum security laboratory in China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan is the source of the deadly global pandemic were vigorously denied Monday night for the second time in a little over a week by the institute’s director.

China remains the single largest beneficiary of the United States’ various student visa programs — sending more of its young nationals to the U.S. every year than Europe and Africa combined.

Trump said at a press briefing the administration is conducting “serious investigations” to hold China accountable for the coronavirus.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has informed a company that used a taxpayer grant to provide U.S. tax dollars to the Wuhan lab in China–from which some authorities believe the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic emanated–that the Wuhan lab is formally being investigated by U.S. officials.

China has rejected calls for an independent international investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, according to a recent BBC report.

China’s state media urged the world on Sunday to ignore “sinister” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s assertions that the Communist Party could have stopped the Chinese coronavirus outbreak from becoming a pandemic, deeming him “the worst U.S. secretary of state in its history.”

The UK will no longer recognise the number of coronavirus deaths reported by China over fake data fears from the country.

Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Rudy Giuliani, personal legal counsel for President Donald Trump, accused the President Barack Obama administration in 2014 of funding the Wuhan laboratory in which the coronavirus is believed to have originated.