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Frances top two leagues will not resume this season The French 2019-20 professional sports competitions including football season will not be allowed to resume before September after French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the sporting season was over.
Based on the French governments new decision the Ligues 1 and 2 seasons will not resume and... |
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Chinese military warns US warship to leave South China Sea This file photo, taken on October 21, 2016, shows the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur operating in the South China Sea as part of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG). (By AFP)
The Chinese military has warned a US warship to leave after it illegally entered the disputed waters... |
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Top US doctor who treated coronavirus patients dies Dr. Lorna M. Breen
A top Emergency Room doctor in New York City who treated coronavirus patients has died from depression.
Doctor Lorna Breen, 49, died Sunday morning in Charlottesville, Viginia, from self-inflicted wounds, said her father, Doctor Philip Breen.
Breen worked in the Columbia University... |
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One million Yemenis risk losing shelter due to lack of funds: UN Yemenis collect some materials washed away by the torrents following heavy rains in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on April 14, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The United Nations refugee agency says nearly one million displaced people in Yemen risk losing their shelter due to torrential rains and seasonal floods,... |
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Fuel truck bomb kills 40 in Turkish-controlled northwestern Syria city This picture shows the aftermath of a deadly fuel truck bomb explosion in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin on April 28, 2020.
More than three dozen people have lost their lives when a powerful fuel truck bomb explosion rocked a northwestern Syrian city seized by Turkish military forces and their... |
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Schumer calls for hearings on Trumps abject failure at implementing coronavirus relief US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a press conference at Corona Plaza in Queens on April 14, 2020 in New York City. (AFP photo)
US Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) has blasted the administration of President Donald Trump for failing to implement the coronavirus response... |
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US to face tough battle in pushing plan to extend UN Iran arms embargo: Diplomats A file photo of the United Nations Security Council in session (By AP)
Diplomatic sources at the United Nations say Washington has a tough challenge ahead at the Security Council (UNSC) if it pushes for an extension of the world bodys arms embargo against Iran through recourse to a process set out... |
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Libyan strongman dismisses UN unity pact, vows to form own govt. Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar is seen in an unknown location in this screen grab taken from a video released on April 27, 2020. (Handout via Reuters)
Libyas renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has dismissed a 2015 United Nations-brokered unity accord for the war-ravaged country as "a thing... |
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Trump ignored repeated virus warnings in Jan. and Feb.: US media US President Donald Trump addresses a coronavirus response news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, US, April 27, 2020. Carlos Barria/Reuters
President Donald Trump was repeatedly warned about the dangers of the coronavirus in January and February but refused to take action,... |
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Italian Serie A set to resume training in May A man wears a personalized mask from FC Juventus as Italys lockdown measures continue to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Venice, Italy, April 22, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
The Italian prime minister has given the go-ahead for professional sports teams to start training again... |
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Brazil: Health workers protest working conditions outside hospital in Sao Paulo Health workers staged a protest outside the Campo Limpo Hospital in Sao Paulo on Monday to decry what they call a lack of protective equipment and "proper conditions for work," as they battle the coronavirus outbreak.
The protesters can be seen gathering at the entrance of the Campo Limpo Hospital... |
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Oil prices extend falls on storage concerns Rail cars carrying crude oil on April 24, 2020 near Odessa, Texas. (AFP photo)
Oil prices extended falls Tuesday a day after another massive rout, as concerns over storage capacity overshadow cuts by top producers aimed at boosting coronavirus-hit markets.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell... |
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Palestinian group says has captured Israeli military drone flying over Gaza Israeli soldiers gather in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on the border with Syria on February 27, 2020, after a reported Israeli drone struck a vehicle in the Syrian southern village of Hader, in Quneitra region, on the edge of the Golan Heights. (AFP photo)
The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas,... |
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US ready to recognize Israeli sovereignty in occupied Palestinian lands A Palestinian protester scuffles with Israeli soldiers after Israeli tractors started working on a Palestinian land near the village of Aqraba, south of Nablus, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on March 3, 2020. (AFP photo)
The United States says it is "prepared to recognize Israeli actions to extend... |
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One in three Americans found losing work, income due to coronavirus A man in a face mask walks past closed shopfronts in the Fashion District in Downtown Los Angeles, California on April 22, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (AFP photo)
Almost one-third of Americans have lost work or income due to the coronavirus, especially low-income earners, by getting fired,... |
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French GP postponed due to pandemic crisis In this file photo taken on June 23, 2019 drivers take the start of the Formula One Grand Prix de France at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, southern France. (Photo by AFP)
The French Grand Prix has become the 10th Formula 1 race to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
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UK coronavirus response utterly hypocritical, says UN poverty expert Professor Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur for extreme poverty (File photo)
The United Nations poverty expert Philip Alston has attacked the UK governments coronavirus response as "utterly hypocritical" after successive administrations implemented policies of austerity and public-sector cuts.
The... |
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The end of globalisation wont be televised, despite the hopes of the Western 99% (2/2) Courtesy: Financial Times
By Ramin Mazaheri
Part 1 discussed how the West’s coronavirus response totally ignored the needs of their lower classes, and also how Iran’s “Resistance Economy” rejects Western economic liberalism (and neoliberalism) which has always sought to... |
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un alive and well: South Korea This file photo, taken on March 2, 2019, shows North Koreas leader Kim Jong-un waving before boarding his train at the Dong Dang railway station in the Vietnamese town of Lang Son. (By AFP)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is "alive and well," according to a top security adviser to South Korean President... |
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Syria air defenses down Israeli missiles over Damascus Missile fire lights up the sky over Damascus as the US launches an attack on Syria, on April 14, 2018. (Photo by AP)
Syrian air defenses have thwarted an Israeli aggression, and shot down a number of "hostile" missiles in the skies over the capital, Damascus, before reaching their targets.
The official... |
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Social distancing will continue through summer in US: White House health expert Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 21, 2020. (AFP photo)
A senior Trump administration... |
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Baby girl and three-year-old boy die after knife attack in London home Site of Illford stabbings on 27, April, 2020 (Photo via The Independent)
A baby girl and a three-year-old boy have been stabbed to death at a home in east London.
The children were found injured at the house in Aldborough Road North, Ilford, at 5.30pm on Sunday.
A 40-year-old man was taken from the... |
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Turkish forces gun down two protesters in northwest Syria Turkish army troops, wearing protective masks against the new coronavirus, take position on the M4 Highway in the northwestern Syrian Idlib Province on April 13, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Turkish forces have reportedly opened live fire on people protesting their patrolling of a key highway in northwestern... |
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Boris Johnson says lockdown cannot yet be eased as UK faces maximum risk Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a statement in Downing Street in central London on April 27, 2020 after returning to work following more than three weeks off after being hospitalized with the COVID-19 illness. (AFP photo)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns that it is still too soon... |
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Global COVID-19 caseload grows slowly, contagion curve flattens in Europe This handout picture, taken on April 25, 2020, shows French artist Saype posing on his giant landart painting entitled "Beyond Crisis" in the alpine resort of Leysin, in western Switzerland. (Photo by AFP)
As the global caseload of the COVID-19 disease increased more slowly, governments around the world... |
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Doctors warn UK protective equipment shortages worsening A nurse wears a protective face mask as she walks outside The Royal London Hospital in east London on April 18, 2020, during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP photo)
An increasing number of doctors in the UK are being forced to treat coronavirus patients without protective equipment, a new... |
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China eases restrictions on exports of some coronavirus equipment This photo taken on April 9, 2020 shows a COVID-19 coronavirus antibody test kit at Sophonix, a company which produces test kits for medical use, in Beijing, China. (Photo by AFP)
China has decided to ease an export restriction on some medical equipment, which required domestic approval before they... |
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White House mulls replacing Alex Azarover botched coronavirus response US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar(R) speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during a coronavirus task force press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering... |
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Spanish coast guard rescues 49 migrants near Gran Canaria A migrant rescued in the Atlantic Ocean disembarks from a Spanish coast guard vessel in the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, April 26, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
A Spanish coast guard vessel has transported 49 migrants rescued in the Atlantic Ocean to the port of Arguineguin... |
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US blocking Iran media outlet stark infringement of freedom of expression : Foreign Ministry The file photo shows a view of the Iranian Foreign Ministry building in Tehran.
Irans Ministry of Foreign Affairs says a recent decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to block the domains of Iranian news outlets is in "stark infringement" of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... |
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