Record coronavirus daily death toll in Brazil: Live updates

India's coronavirus infections surpassed 200,000 after cases jumped by 8,909 on Tuesday in one of the highest single-day spikes.

Brazil reported 1,262 deaths from COVID-19 in the 24 hours to Tuesday night, another daily record.

More than 6.3 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed around the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 380,000 people have died, including more than 106,000 in the US. More than 2.7 million have recovered from the disease.

Here are the latest updates:
Wednesday, June 3
09:30 GMT - Germany to lift travel ban for EU, Schengen countries and UK 
Germany will lift a travel ban for European Union member states plus Britain, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland from June 15 as long as there are no entry bans or large-scale lockdowns in those countries, the foreign minister has said.
Speaking to reporters Heiko Maas said all countries concerned met those criteria except Norway due to an entry ban and Spain,

Cyclone Nisarga: India metropolis of Mumbai braces for rare storm

Cyclone Nisarga, which intensified into a severe cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea, is making landfall along India's western coast, threatening the financial hub of Mumbai and forcing evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
"[The] landfall process started and it will be completed during the next three hours. The northeast sector of the eye of the severe cyclonic storm Nisarga is entering into the land," India's meteorological department said on Wednesday.
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Landslides kill at least 20 in India's Assam state

Nisarga dropped heavy rains and winds gusting up to 120km (75 miles) per hour as a category 4 cyclone near the coastal city of Alibagh, about 98km (60 miles) south of Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra state and home to more than 18 million people.
At least 100,000 people, including coronavirus patients, were moved to safer loca

UK’s Johnson offers visa relaxation to 3 million Hong Kong people

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the United Kingdom will consider revisions in its immigration rules, giving more Hong Kong residents a path to residency and citizenship, amid China's plan to impose a new national security law in the city.
"If China imposes its national security law, the British government will change our immigration rules," Johnson wrote in an opinion piece published in the South China Morning Post on Wednesday.
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Pompeo declares Hong Kong 'no longer autonomous' from China

Johnson's column in the paper was published as Hong Kong continues to clamp down on dissent and pro-democracy activities, including the prohibition, for the first time, of the annual June 4 vigil honouring victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. A controversial bill that will criminalise "disrespect" of China'

Live updates: As protests push past curfews and troops descend, CIA veterans say U.S. similar to collapsing nations

President Trump’s reelection campaign sent a message to news organizations Tuesday night, demanding a correction to articles that described security forces’ use of tear gas to disperse demonstrators outside the White House on Monday, to allow Trump to cross the street to pose for photos at a church.
The U.S. Park Police had earlier released a statement defending that effort, saying the use of chemical agents against the crowd came in response to violence from protesters and involved “pepper balls” and “smoke canisters,” not tear gas.
“We now know through the U.S. Park Police that neither they, nor any of their law enforcement partners, used tear gas to quell rising violence,” Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, said in a statement Tuesday night. “Every news organization which reported the tear gas lie should immediately correct or retract its erroneous reporting.”
The truth boils down to an exercise in semantics.
According to the Centers fo