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The Kremlin this week began easing a national lockdown to slow the spread of the virus, despite the steady rise in infections; President Vladimir Putin is pictured in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow
World
20.08.2024
Putin says virus crisis easing as new cases fall below 10,000
Giscard d'Estaing served as president for one term from 1974 until 1981
World
20.08.2024
Former French president 'very upset' by sexual assault claim
President Donald Trump has for weeks accused China of concealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak on its territory, allowing it to spread unchecked across the globe
World
20.08.2024
Trump threatens China ties, says in no mood for Xi talks
Soldiers in Johannesburg give a helping hand to a homeless woman on the first day of South Africa's tough anti-virus lockdown
World
20.08.2024
Q&A: Africa's coronavirus enigma
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People queue to collect subsidised food in Dhaka
World 20.08.2024
First coronavirus cases found in Bangladesh refugee camps
Thabane told AFP he would resign this week
World 20.08.2024
Lesotho PM can be fired if he fails to quit, his party says
Workers at the Kenyan port of Mombasa haul ashore a fibre optic cable in June 2009 as part of a scheme to boost internet connectivity in East Africa
World 20.08.2024
Massive cable project set to give Africa internet boost
Activists fear the pandemic is being exploited by Europe's strongmen leaders as a pretext to further erode civil liberties
World 20.08.2024
For Europe's strongmen, pandemic is opportunity and risk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his former rival Benny Gantz agree on a new coalition government putting an end to Israel's longest political crisis
World 20.08.2024
Israel to swear in govt after 500-day political crisis
A new cluster of cases has sparked mass coronavirus testing in the central Chinese city of Wuhan
World 20.08.2024
Fresh test for Wuhan as cluster sparks mass virus screening
Manish Verma was left jobless after Modi shut down virtually all activity in Asia's third-largest economy
World 20.08.2024
Modi masterplan means little to Indian migrant workers
The major oil-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa
World 20.08.2024
Virus crisis adds to woes of Africa's oil producers
Japan is hoping to lift a state of emergency over the coronavirus early in much of the country as infections drop
World 20.08.2024
Japan lifts virus emergency for most regions
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