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Tokyo Olympics postponed over coronavirus pandemic
March 24, 2020
Tokyo Olympics postponed over coronavirus pandemic
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic…
Virus sparks ‘unprecedented collapse’ in eurozone economy
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
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…
China to lift lockdown in most of virus-hit Hubei province
March 24, 2020
China to lift lockdown in most of virus-hit Hubei province
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities said Tuesday they will end a two-month lockdown of most of coronavirus-hit Hubei province at…
Battered Italy sees rays of hope in grim death data
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’
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’
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
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
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…
Grieving and saying goodbye in the time of coronavirus
March 23, 2020
Grieving and saying goodbye in the time of coronavirus
CHICAGO (AP) — Tucked deep in the obituary for Charles Recka was an announcement that a Mass celebrating his 87…