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Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai (left) speaks to the director of the National Zoo, Dennis Kelly, as they wait for the departure of giant panda Bao Bao in February 2017
World
20.08.2024
'Wuhan virus' no more: US and China in truce
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is donating more than a quarter of his wealth for COVID-19 relief efforts
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20.08.2024
Twitter's Jack Dorsey pledges $1 bn for COVID-19 relief effort
Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa, pictured in October 2019, claims he's the victim of political persecution
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20.08.2024
Ecuador ex-president sentenced to eight years for corruption
Malagasy rush to flee the capital after the government temporarily eased travel restrictions
World
20.08.2024
Madagascar city dwellers storm bus ranks as travel ban suspended
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The internet's online address manager ICANN is calling for stronger efforts to stop the proliferation of fake websites using the coronavirus pandemic to scam consumers
World 20.08.2024
Internet overseers seek crackdown on coronavirus website scams
The European Central Bank announced a package of measures aims to "mitigate the tightening of financial conditions across the euro area" and includes the use of loans from small companies as collateral as well as junk-rated Greek sovereign debt
World 20.08.2024
ECB eases bank funding rules in 'unprecedented' step
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (pictured April 2, 2020) will hold an "orientation debate" with commissioners by videoconference, after some EU countries announced they were already planning to relax measures
World 20.08.2024
EU to debate strategy to exit virus lockdown
Palm fronds adorned largely empty pews as Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday mass in St. Peter's Basilica mass on April 5. Easter services are set to take place behind closed doors
World 20.08.2024
Lockdown tamps down Easter, Passover celebrations
Electoral officials count votes after the February 2020 general and municipal elections in Yaounde, Cameroon
World 20.08.2024
Cameroon ruling party sweeps by-elections in anglophone regions
Tunisia's emergency medical care doctors (pictured April 6, 2020) dress in personal protective equipment as a measure of protection against the coronvirus, before heading out to treat a COVID-19 patient in the capital Tunis
World 20.08.2024
Tunis warns rule breaking virus carriers face manslaughter charge
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces talks with Iraq at a news conference at the State Department
World 20.08.2024
US, Iraq to hold talks on troop future
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March 2020 only to discover they did not exist
World 20.08.2024
Germany caught up in mask fraud scheme
The head of a major Russian research centre said scientists at a top-secret lab complex located in Koltsovo outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk had developed several prototype coronavirus vaccines
World 20.08.2024
Russia ready to start testing coronavirus vaccines on humans in June
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