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Opposition groups fear the new constitution is a ploy to allow President Alpha Conde to stay on for a third spell in office
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20.08.2024
Guinea to vote on new constitution amid coronavirus fears
Haiti President Jovenel Moise, pictured in January 2020, announced the first two cases of the novel coronavirus in his country
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20.08.2024
Haiti reports first two coronavirus cases
Russians fear that the coronavirus and the slump in oil prices, which have hit the ruble, will have a lasting effect amid analyst predictions that living standards will plummet in a looming Great Depression
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20.08.2024
Coronavirus, low oil dent Putin hopes for economic revival
Hong Kong is using tech to track the coronavirus
World
20.08.2024
Asia deploys innovative, if invasive, tech to curb virus
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Carauari, an Amazonian town where residents fear the reach and spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in the rainforest in Brazil is seen on March 16, 2020
World 20.08.2024
Coronavirus fear now reaches deep into Amazon, too
Hand sanitiser is in short supply in many countries battling coronavirus
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Cricket great Warne's gin distillery shifts to hand sanitiser
Farmer Hamad al-Ibrahim stands in his damaged fields in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz
World 20.08.2024
Syria's Baghouz, one year after last IS flag came down
A man wears a face mask as he works at a market in Medellin, Colombia, on March 19, 2020
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Brazil closes nearly all land borders, Rio to shut beaches for 2 weeks
The pharmaceutical industry says it would make sure a coronavirus vaccine "will be available" to everyone "who needs it" across the globe
World 20.08.2024
Pharma chiefs expect coronavirus vaccine in 12-18 months
The Nile is under massive strain from pollution and climate change and now the threat of a colossal dam being built far upstream in Ethiopia
World 20.08.2024
The mighty Nile, threatened by waste, warming, mega-dam
Vice President Mike Pence said there has been a "dramatic" increase in production of protective face masks amid a shortage that led health authorities to advise the use bandanas or scarves in the event of an emergency
World 20.08.2024
Use bandanas, scarves if no masks available: US health authorities
The brutal attack on Jyoti Singh sparked weeks of demonstrations in India
World 20.08.2024
India hangs four men over 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape
The chairman of Carnival Cruise Line offered US President Donald Trump use of the company's ships to house coronavirus patients
World 20.08.2024
Cruise ships could become floating hospitals, Trump says
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