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SOUNDBITE British Home Secretary Priti Patel announces another 917 deaths in hospital due to coronavirus, bringing the country's total toll close to 10,000.
World
20.08.2024
Boris Johnson making 'good progress' in virus recovery as UK death toll nears 10,000
Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- since mid-March, 2020, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) has registered 2,870 Ethiopian returnees, all but 100 of whom were sent back from Saudi Arabia
World
20.08.2024
Saudi deportations of Ethiopians could fuel COVID-19 spread: UN
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "working hard" to find a new candidate to be the envoy to Libya, a diplomat said
World
20.08.2024
UN searching for new Libya envoy after US blockage
Blues: A young homeless man sings in a quarantined area at a refuge for newly-arrived street children outside Dakar
World
20.08.2024
Coronavirus forces Senegal street children from capital
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Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte (pictured March 2020 in a handout photo from the Palazzo Chigi press office) has come under attack from political rivals in Rome for agreeing to the EU's bailout plan
World 20.08.2024
Italy PM takes wait and see approach to EU virus rescue
DJ Nickodemus has been playing live sets for online audiences as New York remains under quarantine due to coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
In da (digital) club: Life under quarantine fuels parties online
A child remains inside his home as his relatives sit out the COVID-19 epidemic in Guayaquil, Ecuador's Nigeria neighborhood
World 20.08.2024
Guayaquil barrio where hunger is more feared than COVID-19
Customers in facemasks selling gold at a shop in Bangkok's Chinatown
World 20.08.2024
Gold glitters as cash-strapped Thais sell jewellery
A storm has brewed over the treatment of people in the "Little Africa" district of Guangzhou
World 20.08.2024
Anger in Africa over coronavirus 'stigma' in China
Male domination and acceptance of domestic violence are entrenched in Madagascar, say experts
World 20.08.2024
In Madagascar, tradition trumps women's rights in domestic abuse
Lebanese nationals repatriated from Qatar enter quarantine at a hotel in the Lebanese capital Beirut
World 20.08.2024
Virus mars Easter holidays as death toll nears 100,000
A man wearing a facemask walks in front of a mural at Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China
World 20.08.2024
Asia virus latest: China imported cases rise, World Bank warning
In a fix: Hansie Cronje ponders a point during his cross-examination at the King Commission of Inquiry into allegations of match-fixing in 2000
World 20.08.2024
Twenty years on, cricket still reeling from Cronje scandal
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