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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
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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
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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
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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
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Angry Wuhan next-of-kin seek answers over virus handling
About half the Philippines' roughly 110 million people are currently under quarantine
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Duterte tells Philippine police to shoot dead lockdown troublemakers
The global number of COVID-19 deaths and infections is surging as countries ramp up measures against the pandemic
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Asia virus latest: N. Korea says virus-free, Australia cruise standoff
Ellis Marsalis died at the age of 85
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Jazz great Ellis Marsalis dies aged 85 after virus 'complications'
Coronavirus is spreading uncontrollably through the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, its captain said
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US Navy evacuates virus-struck aircraft carrier Roosevelt
The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story about Islamist militants
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Death sentence overturned for Briton convicted over Daniel Pearl murder
A woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina claps her hands to express gratitude to health workers, a nightly tradition during the "preventative and compulsory" lockdown
World 20.08.2024
Global virus cases near million as US baby dies
Chinese workers collect bile from a caged bear at a farm in Fujian province. Beijing is promoting the use of bear bile to treat coronavirus patients but it has no proven effectiveness
World 20.08.2024
Activists slam China's use of bear bile in virus treatment
The more than 43,000 people who have died so far all had their own stories - young and old, men and women, patients and medical staff alike
World 20.08.2024
Lives behind grim coronavirus numbers
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