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African Union urges countries to mark 26th anniversary of Rwanda genocide The skulls of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide are displayed in the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7, 2012. (Photo by AFP)
The head of the African Union Commission has called on all Africans to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, which claimed over... |
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Zarif: Iran needs no charity from US, only wants bans lifted amid virus crisis Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran, as a resource-rich nation, needs no charity from US President Donald Trump in its battle against a coronavirus pandemic, urging Washington instead to stop standing in the way of Tehrans oil sales and banking transactions.
Zarif made the comments in... |
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Russian space agency says Trump paving way to seize other planets The Constellation Programs Ares I-X test rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39B, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, on October 28, 2009. (Photo by NASA)
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, accused US President Donald Trump on Tuesday of creating a basis to take over other... |
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Growing concerns about coronavirus deaths in prisons A vicious coronavirus crisis is raging mostly unnoticed inside Britains antiquated prison network
As most of the attention is focused on Prime Minister Boris Johnsons deteriorating health, the coronavirus crisis rages unnoticed in the darkest corners of Britain, namely the countrys prisons.
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US economy to suffer devastating hit: Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a briefing at the US Federal Reserve December 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has expressed strong concerns that the worlds biggest economy is in the throes of a "devastating hit".
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WHO warns against easing COVID-19 measures too early Healthcare workers tend to coronavirus patients in the intensive care unit at the Vall dHebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, on April 6, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the precautionary measures enforced by governments to curb the COVID-19 epidemic should not... |
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How Is Bahrain Regime Exploiting Pandemic Situation Against Shiite Citizens? Reports emanating from Bahrain say that the ruling Al Khalifa regime continues its crackdown on the Shiites despite the outbreak of the coronavirus in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
The spiritual leader of the Shiites in Bahrain Sheikh Isa Ghassem has recently published a statement, calling on the... |
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ISIS Afghanistan Status As Its Leader Captured By Kabul The head of the ISISs Afghanistan affiliate has been arrested along with 19 other terrorists in the south of the country, Afghan officials said Saturday.
Abdullah Orakzai, who goes by Aslam Farooqi, was detained by forces from the National Directorate of Security, the countrys main intelligence... |
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US forces preparing to withdraw from base west of Baghdad US soldiers stand at the Qayyarah air base in northern Iraq before a planned pullout on March 26, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terror group in Iraq is reportedly preparing to evacuate troops from a military base in the city of Abu Gharib, west of the capital... |
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Mosques converted into factories as Iran fights coronavirus Iranian women make face masks and other protective items at a mosque in the capital Tehran, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by AFP)
At a Tehran mosque converted into factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the... |
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Coronavirus in Europe: Migrants in Poland being hit hardest by life on lockdown Poland is home to nearly two million migrant workers. Most come from neighbouring countries like Ukraine and Belarus, and some come from faraway places like Bangladesh.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate was at a historic low of 2.9 per cent. The economy in the country has been growing,... |
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Australian cardinal acquitted of all child abuse charges in shock ruling Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves after being released from Barwon Prison near Anakie, some 70 kilometers west of Melbourne, on April 7, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Australian Cardinal George Pell has been freed from jail after being acquitted by Australias highest court of charges of child abuse in... |
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Iran-made coronavirus test kits, ventilators, anti-viral masks to hit market The picture taken on February 26, 2020, shows the production line of protective masks at a subsidiary organization of the Iranian Defense Ministry. (By IRNA)
An Iranian university researcher says domestically-developed coronavirus diagnostic test kits, light-weight ventilators and virus-killingfacemasks... |
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Venezuelas Maduro pens open letter to Americans A handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency showing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaking during a televised message amid the coronavirus pandemic, at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 30, 2020. (Via AFP)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has released... |
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African American communities hit hardest by coronavirus: US data While more affluent parts of Nashville have had testing sites for weeks, this drive-through testing site at Meharry Medical College, in a historically African American neighborhood, experienced weeks of delays because staff couldnt acquire the needed testing supplies and gear like masks and gloves.... |
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COVID-19 in Mideast: Preventive measures tightened as infections rise Turkish Police officers check travel permits on a highway near Istanbul, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
The Middle Eastern countries are tightening the already-strict precautionary measures they have been taking to contain a coronavirus pandemic as the number of infections with the deadly virus continues... |
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University in Japan holds graduation ceremony using avatar robots Business Breakthrough (BBT) Dean Kenichi Ohmae poses with iPads attached to "Newme" robots replacing graduating students at a ceremony, in Tokyo, Japan, March 28, 2020.
Business Breakthrough (BBT) University in Tokyo held a graduation ceremony for students in late March using avatar robots remotely... |
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Coronavirus world updates: Over 1.34 million infected worldwide Medics carry a body bag simulating to have a corpse during an awareness campaign during, in Cucuta, Colombia, on April 6, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe now number at 1,347,803, and a total of 74,807 people have lost their lives as a result of complications caused... |
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Boris Johnson in intensive care unit as coronavirus symptoms worsen British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to intensive care unit at a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.
His condition "worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at St Thomas Hospital... |
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Libya government forces say Emirati drones supporting rebels Damage is seen after shells fell on a residential area in Abu Salim district, in Tripoli, Libya, on February 28, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
Government forces in Libya say Emirati drones have carried out two airstrikes in support of Libyan rebels near the city of Sirte.
Mustafa al-Mujie, a spokesman for... |
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Will Labour Party become pro-war after Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer has been elected as the leader of the British Labour Party, signalling perhaps the beginning of a new era for Labour. Jeremy Corbyn the former Labour Party leader, who stepped down in the wake of general election defeat to Boris Johnson, was notably an advocate for an anti-war, pro-Palestinian... |
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US officer killed in ambush in eastern Syria In this file photo taken on March 24, 2019 smoke is rising behind destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the village of Baghouz in Syrias eastern Dayr al-Zawr province near the Iraqi border. (Photo by AFP)
A US officer has been killed in an ambush in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr.
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Trump has blood on his hands, says NY official whose mom died of covid-19 New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer speaks at a demonstration and news conference against illegal guns in front of the Jacob Javits Federal Building on August 12, 2019 in New York City.
US President Donald Trump has "blood on his hands," says a New York official, whose mother died after contracting... |
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Amnesty, HRW urge Bahrain to release political inmates amid COVID-19 pandemic Prominent Bahraini activist Hajer Mansoor (C) is greeted in the village of Aali, south of the capital Manama, following her release from prison, on March 5, 2020. Mansoor was released after completing a three-year prison term on charges that rights groups said were fabricated as an act of reprisal against... |
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UN Security Council to hold first coronavirus talks Thursday: diplomats In this file photo taken on February 26, 2020 German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (C) speaks at a UN Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on February 26, 2020.
The UN Security Council will hold its first meeting on the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, after weeks of divisions... |
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Taliban Halting Talks with Govt Over Prisoner Release The Talibans spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted on Tuesday that the "technical team will not participate in fruitless meetings with relevant sides starting from tomorrow."
"We sent a technical team of the prisoners commission to Kabul for verification and identification of our prisoners as release... |
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56 New COVID-19 Cases in Afghanistan, Total 423 The Ministry of Public Health announced on Tuesday that 56 new positive coronavirus cases were registered in the country in the past 24 hours.
Positive coronavirus cases recorded in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours: Herat (27), Kabul (12), Kandahar (10), Balkh (5) and Nangarhar (2).
Out of 140... |
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More Americans dying of covid-19 than official count: Report Medical workers move a body to an overflow morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, on April 2, 2020. (Bloomberg News photo)
The fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic is likely killing people in the United States that are not counted in the nations growing death toll,... |
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As PMs health deteriorates concerns grow about stability of government Boris Johnsons health has markedly deteriorated in the past 24 hours
The sudden deterioration in Prime Minister Boris Johnsons health has touched off a flurry of speculation as to who would take over the reins of government if the PM becomes incapacitated.
Johnson was rushed off to hospital last... |
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French doctor apologizes for Africa coronavirus test remarks after severe backlash People walk in a line next to traffic as they depart Nigerian capital, Abuja, on March 30, 2020, to neighboring states after President Muhammadu Buhari called for a lockdown to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by AFP)
A French doctor who suggested that a possible treatment for the... |
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