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Empty food carts with chairs stacked on them sit in a lot next to a busy Bangkok highway -- the latest casualty of a deadly coronavirus which has stunted global travel and economies.
World
20.08.2024
Thailand imposes nationwide curfew to curb virus spread
Google and other internet platforms have been stepping up efforts to combat coronavirus misinformation
World
20.08.2024
Google boosts support for checking coronavirus facts
Indonesian inmates at a Jakarta prison talk via video to family members after visits were stopped because of coronavirus fears. Authorities have now gone further, and are releasing tens of thousands of prisoners in a bid to stop the spread of the virus...
World
20.08.2024
Indonesia frees 18,000 inmates from bursting jails over virus fears
Masked: A phone credit salesman wears a dishcloth to cover his face at Kaveza market in Kigila. The country is in lockdown, and only essential stores are open.
World
20.08.2024
As shutdown extended, Rwanda's poor confront further hardship
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European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says she is "particularly concerned with the situation in Hungary"
World 20.08.2024
EU chief 'concerned' about Hungary virus emergency law
Spain's death toll has now surpassed 9,000
World 20.08.2024
Global virus cases near a million as Spain sees record deaths
President Donald Trump has warned Iran it will pay a "heavy price" if it or its allies in Iraq attack US troops
World 20.08.2024
Iran, US heat up war of words on Iraq despite virus pandemic
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu (R) and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman hold a video conference with European leaders on the COVID-19 coronavirus on March 9
World 20.08.2024
Israel health minister contracts COVID-19, Netanyahu re-enters quarantine
The coronavirus has intensified the pressure on Syrian refugees in Lebanon with multiple municipalities imposing tight restrictions that do not apply to the rest of the population
World 20.08.2024
Lebanon discriminating against refugees in virus response: HRW
Volunteers at the Capital Area Food Bank prepare to pack boxes of food for distribution to the needy
World 20.08.2024
At US food banks, a cupboard increasingly bare
US President Donald Trump's bully pulpit has been even more pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic, as his likely Democratic rival in the November 2020 election, Joe Biden, is isolated at home instead of out on the campaign trail
World 20.08.2024
Invisible man? Amid pandemic, Biden sidelined by omnipresent Trump
Zhang, who didn't want to be identified further, told AFP he is demanding answers from a government that he accuses of incompetence and lying about the extent of the coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Angry Wuhan next-of-kin seek answers over virus handling
About half the Philippines' roughly 110 million people are currently under quarantine
World 20.08.2024
Duterte tells Philippine police to shoot dead lockdown troublemakers
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