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Biden predicts Trump will try to postpone US election
April 25, 2020
Biden predicts Trump will try to postpone US election
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has predicted that US President Donald Trump will try to postpone the country’s November…
COVID-19, the knockout punch for multilateralism?
April 25, 2020
COVID-19, the knockout punch for multilateralism?
The coronavirus pandemic blindsided international organizations, prompted individual states to unilaterally strike out alone and heralded a new chapter in…
Johnson under pressure to explain UK virus plan on return to work
April 25, 2020
Johnson under pressure to explain UK virus plan on return to work
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to return to work soon after his recovery from COVID-19, as pressure mounts on…
Hopes grow for antibody tests, but experts urge caution
April 25, 2020
Hopes grow for antibody tests, but experts urge caution
The sun is only just rising in Berlin but Lothar Kopp, 65, is already standing in line outside a clinic…
Virus toll nears 200,000 as UN pushes for global vaccine effort
April 25, 2020
Virus toll nears 200,000 as UN pushes for global vaccine effort
The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine…
Does sunlight rapidly destroy the coronavirus?
April 25, 2020
Does sunlight rapidly destroy the coronavirus?
Does sunlight rapidly destroy the coronavirus? A White House presentation on a mysterious government study says so — but some…
Spain’s daily coronavirus deaths lowest in a month
April 24, 2020
Spain’s daily coronavirus deaths lowest in a month
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain’s daily coronavirus deaths fell to the lowest in more than a month on Friday, with 367…
Countries take different approaches in lifting lockdown
April 24, 2020
Countries take different approaches in lifting lockdown
MADRID (AP) — Without a tried-and-tested action plan for how to pull countries out of lockdown, the world is seeing…
Staff count emotional cost as virus savages UK nursing homes
April 24, 2020
Staff count emotional cost as virus savages UK nursing homes
SELSTON, England (AP) — Lucy Dawson is haunted by a sense of powerlessness. The nurse has equipment to treat the…
COVID-19 takes unequal toll on immigrants in Nordic region
April 24, 2020
COVID-19 takes unequal toll on immigrants in Nordic region
(Reuters) — The first person in Sadad Dakhare’s two-bedroom apartment in Oslo, Norway, to show symptoms was his four-year-old niece.…