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Virus sparks ‘unprecedented collapse’ in eurozone economy
World
March 24, 2020
Virus sparks ‘unprecedented collapse’ in eurozone economy
There has been “an unprecedented collapse” in business across the eurozone this month as EU countries impose severe restrictions on…
Africa’s weak health systems face escalating virus peril
World
March 24, 2020
Africa’s weak health systems face escalating virus peril
Equipment shortages, scarce beds and poorly-paid doctors and nurses: Africa is finding that it has few means to protect itself…
Battered Italy sees rays of hope in grim death data
World
March 24, 2020
Battered Italy sees rays of hope in grim death data
Italy’s top coronavirus response official Tuesday attributed two successive declines in the daily death rate to a painful national lockdown…
US Olympic officials say Tokyo postponement ‘most promising path’
World
March 24, 2020
US Olympic officials say Tokyo postponement ‘most promising path’
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee voiced support for delaying the Tokyo Games on Monday after a survey showed an…
Britain in lockdown as WHO warns pandemic ‘accelerating’
World
March 24, 2020
Britain in lockdown as WHO warns pandemic ‘accelerating’
Britain was under lockdown Tuesday, its population joining around 1.7 billion people around the globe ordered to stay indoors to…
Fear in New York, but Trump says coronavirus restrictions could ease soon
World
March 24, 2020
Fear in New York, but Trump says coronavirus restrictions could ease soon
Anxiety ratcheted up Monday across an eerily deserted New York, America’s coronavirus epicenter, but President Donald Trump said he’d soon…
For Moscow’s quarantined, 100,000 cameras are watching
World
March 24, 2020
For Moscow’s quarantined, 100,000 cameras are watching
A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in…
Pompeo slashes aid, meets Taliban on surprise Afghan mission
Middle East
March 24, 2020
Pompeo slashes aid, meets Taliban on surprise Afghan mission
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday slashed aid to Afghanistan’s government after a mission to Kabul failed to…
Don’t stop the music: DJ hosts 10-hour Instagram dance party
Music
March 23, 2020
Don’t stop the music: DJ hosts 10-hour Instagram dance party
Just because there’s a pandemic going on, doesn’t mean the party has to stop. And one DJ has kept it…
Trump deploys emergency beds, global pandemic deaths surge
World
March 23, 2020
Trump deploys emergency beds, global pandemic deaths surge
US President Donald Trump ordered thousands of emergency hospital beds set up at American coronavirus hotspots but a trillion-dollar economic…