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US deficit to soar to record $3.8 trillion in 2020, budget watchdog group says A steep economic downturn and massive coronavirus rescue spending will nearly quadruple the fiscal 2020 US budget deficit to a record $3.8 trillion, a staggering 18.7% of US economic output, a Washington-based watchdog group said on Monday.
Releasing new budget estimates based on spending mandated by... |
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Coronavirus: Global total of infected nears 2m Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, Maclola Orozco restocks food at El Rancho grocery store in Dallas, Monday, April 13, 2020. - Copyright LM Otero/Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Global cases of coronavirus neared the grim milestone of two million on Monday night... |
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Khalilzad, Gen. Miller Meet with Taliban in Qatar US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Gen. Austin S. Miller, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, on Monday met with a Taliban delegation led by the deputy leader of the group Mullah Baradar in Qatar and discussed the US and Taliban agreement. The meeting was announced by the Taliban on... |
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714 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in Afghanistan The Health Ministry on Tuesday said that 49 new COVID-19 cases have been registered in the country in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 714.
The 49 new cases were registered in Kabul (18), Kandahar (15), Balkh (6), Herat (4), Ghazni (4) and Nangarhar (2), according to the ministry.
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Power outage hits more than 1 million people as severe weather batters US south Louisiana experienced considerable flooding during Tropical Storm Barry in July 2019. (Getty Images)
Harsh storms tore through the Southern United States late Sunday night, killing at least 18 people and leaving more than one million without power. The inclement weather caused severe damage in several... |
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Four civilians killed in exchange of fire between India, Pakistan troops in Kashmir Pakistani troops patrol at the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border between Pakistan and India, in Chakothi sector, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, August 29, 2019. (File photo by AFP)
Four civilians have been killed during an exchange of fire between troops of Pakistan and India across the restive... |
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US nursing home deaths soar past 3,600 in alarming surge A cleaning crew wearing protective clothing to protect them from coronavirus enters the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, on March 12, 2020. (Getty Images)
More than 3,600 deaths across the US have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, an alarming... |
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Hamas dismisses as untrue reports of prisoner swap deal with Israel The file photo shows Palestinian prisoners at a detention facility in Israel.
A senior official with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically dismissed as "untrue" reports that it will soon reach a deal to swap prisoners with Israel.
Moussa Dodin, member of Hamas political bureau,... |
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Growing fears of hidden death toll at care homes There are fears that most of the coronavirus-related deaths in Britains extensive care home network are going unreported
Reports that thirteen residents of a County Durham care home have died after displaying symptoms consistent with coronavirus infection have raised fears of a hidden outbreak in the... |
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Locust raid creates food crisis for one million Ethiopians: UN Volunteers from the county government spray pesticide on February 25, 2020 at a hatch site near the town of Isiolo, Isiolo county, eastern Kenya, where locust nymphs have hatched en masse. (File photo by AFP)
Swarms of locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200,000 hectares (half a million acres) of cropland... |
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Coronavirus fear adds to already poor economy in Gaza, committee warns Palestinian children play at a refugee camp in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 11, 2020. Only a few cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Gaza, but experts have warned that an epidemic in the enclave would likely be disastrous. (File photo by AFP)
It is bitterly hard times for the... |
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Trumps response to coronavirus pandemic ruining US reputation: Guardian US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 10, 2020, in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
US President Donald Trumps response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has been sharply condemned... |
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Iran FM discusses Yemeni, Afghan developments, anti-corona fight with counterparts Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held separate phone talks with his Russian, Turkish, Qatari and Indian counterparts about the latest developments in Afghanistan and Yemen as well as collective cooperation to contain the new coronavirus disease.
Zarif and Russian Foreign Minister... |
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Israeli drones violate Lebanese airspace, buzz over Beirut, southern suburbs This file photo shows an Israeli Eitan unmanned aerial vehicle. (Photo by the Times of Israel)
Lebanon says Israeli reconnaissance aircraft have entered the countrys airspace and flown over the capital Beirut and its southern suburbs in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.
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US sailor from coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier dies after contracting virus The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is pictured as it enters the port in Da Nang, Vietnam, March 5, 2020. (Reuters photo)
A US Navy sailor died on Monday after contracting the coronavirus, marking the first death of a sailor assigned to the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
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Coronavirus in Europe: Polish MPs set to debate abortion ban while lockdown prevents protest Polands coronavirus lockdown is being used in a "cynical" and "cowardly" manner to push through a ban on abortion, campaigners claim.
MPs are set to consider a bill this week that pro-choice groups say would effectively ban abortions.
They are angry about it being considered during COVID-19 confinement... |
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China says not discriminating against African brothers amid outbreak Junior students wait in line as they practice social distancing on the first day of returning to school following the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country, at a secondary school in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, on April 13, 2020. (cnsphoto via Reuters)
China has rejected... |
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Muslims attacked, nearly lynched amid coronavirus rumors in India: Report Muslims offer Friday Prayers as they stand maintaining social distancing at the ancient Shahi Jama Masjid during a lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Ahmedabad on March 27, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The coronavirus outbreak has sparked a spree of anti-Muslim attacks across... |
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US cannot treat world countries, intl. bodies as its subordinates: Iran An Iranian member of the medical staff works on the production of Covid-19 test kits at a medical center in the city of Karaj in the northern Alborz Province on April 11, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Iran says the United Stats cannot treat world countries and international institutions as its property, and... |
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Tech firms shown to be using information to build Covid-19 data store Depiction of software mapping (Photo via downloadoldversion.com)
British patients confidential information is being used by tech firms in a data-mining operation that is part of the governments response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to documents seen by The Guardian.
Faculty, a British artificial... |
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Khalilzad urges Afghan govt, Taliban to accelerate prisoner releases The US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has welcomed the release of prisoners by the Afghan government and Taliban, urging the two sides to "accelerate" the process.
According to the US-Taliban deal which was signed on 29th February in Qatar, the Afghan government... |
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Rate of virus infections declining in most Iranian provinces: Official A Bajis member stands in front of a a mural in central Tehran during a drill to contain the new coronavirus.
Irans deputy health minister says the rate of new infections from the new coronavirus has been declining across most of the countrys 31 provinces.
"In six provinces, the trend of coronavirus... |
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Venezuela extends coronavirus quarantine for another 30 days Drivers wait in a queue to refuel the tanks of their cars at a gas station, in Caracas on April 7, 2020 amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. (Photo by AFP)
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a 30-day extension of the ongoing quarantine nationwide to contain the... |
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COVID-19: Global caseload exceeds 1.84mn; Italy, France deaths on downward trend A priest walks amid benches with pictures of members of the congregation, after livestreaming an Easter Sunday Mass, as Italy celebrates Easter under lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the small southern town of San Giorgio Ionico, Italy, on April 12, 2020. (Photo... |
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UK cancels order for simple ventilators, needs more complex ones: source Medical staff are seen outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Center in London as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 11, 2020. (Reuters photo)
Britain has cancelled an order for thousands of units of a simple model of ventilator developed by... |
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6 killed as severe storms, tornadoes rip through US South Damaged buildings and vehicles are seen in the aftermath of a tornado in Monroe, Louisiana, on April 12, 2020, in this still image obtained from social media. (Photo by Reuters)
At least six people have been killed as a strong storm system swept across Mississippi and Louisiana on Sunday, spinning off... |
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Saudi Arabia submits to oil output cut after US threat A handout photo released by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on April 9, 2020 in Riyadh shows Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud (R), chairing the virtual extraordinary meeting of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC countries, amid the novel coronavirus... |
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International Cycling Union puts staff on enforced leave over viral pandemic A logo is pictured on the indoor track at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Federation headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland, September 27, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has put its staff on leave, and cut the salaries of its high-ranking officials because of the coronavirus... |
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UK could be worst-hit country in Europe as COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 A person prays at the closed doors to Westminster Cathedral on Easter Sunday, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 12, 2020. (Reuters photo)
The United Kingdom is likely to be among the European countries worst affected by the coronavirus, one of the... |
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Fauci confirms reports Trump rebuffed social distancing advice US public health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks on CNNs State of the Union program, April 12, 2020.
US public health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has confirmed reports that President Donald Trump rebuffed his social distancing advice.
The New York Times reported Sunday that Fauci, the federal governments... |
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