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Coronavirus outbreak: Hundreds of infected in prisons and jails challenging officials
Thousands of potentially vulnerable inmates were set free or sent to home confinement to reduce the risk of large-scale outbreaks.…
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Guterres warns: ‘Horrifying surge in domestic violence’ against women amid global coronavirus lockdowns
António Guterres United Nations Secretary-General, citing a sharp rise in domestic violence amid global coronavirus lockdowns, called on governments around…
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How to help economies decimated by the virus, What Shape Will Solidarity Take?
A growing number of officials and analysts believe the European Union needs an enormous financial response on a scale commensurate…
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care, ‘in extremely good spirits’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care as he continues to recover from the Covid-19…
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Coronavirus Vaccines and Treatments Move Toward Human Trials
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads at unprecedented rates, invading the lungs of people of all ages, ethnicities and medical histories,…
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ILO: COVID-19 to trigger roughly 195 million job losses
ILO said Tuesday: COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours globally in the second quarter of…
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Israel among the first countries to receive an experimental Japanese drug to treat coronavirus
Tests in China have found that the medication, “Avigan,” produced by Japanese company Fujifilm Holding Corp., was useful in treating…
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Impact of COVID-19 on Middle East conflicts
The United Nations has appealed for ceasefires in all the major conflicts rocking the planet, with its chief Antonio Guterres…
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Queen Elizabeth declares UK ‘will succeed’ in coronavirus battle as she calls for wartime spirit
Queen Elizabeth II has urged the British public to prove that this generation is as ‘strong as any’ in her…
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After arriving on “the plateau” of the pandemic Italy puts a plan to “gradually” get out of it
This country, so far the most mourning in the world by the coronavirus recorded Sunday the number of deaths in…
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