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Governments and central bank moves to limit the economic impact of COVID-19 have failed to ease panicked investors
World
20.08.2024
Asia stocks dive, dollar soars as ECB bazooka fails to ease fears
Demand for private jets is soaring as the cornavirus pandemic spreads
World
20.08.2024
Wealthy flock to private jets as pandemic spreads and airlines tank
A Colombian coast guard on patrol in Tumaco bay
World
20.08.2024
In Colombia, fleet of cartel narco-subs poses challenge for navy
Africa has lagged behind the global curve for coronavirus infections and deaths, but in recent days there has been an uptick in cases
World
20.08.2024
First virus death in Sub-Saharan Africa as WHO warns 'prepare for worst'
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A woman walks past closed shops along a deserted alley in the Old City of Jerusalem
World 20.08.2024
In Jerusalem's Old City, virus 'worse than war'
Seri Sedlacek (L) and her sister Susan Sedlacek visit their father, Chuck Sedlacek, a patient at the Life Care Center, on March 18, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington
World 20.08.2024
Staff 'worked while symptomatic' at US care home with 35 virus deaths
The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center is among the institutions shut down over coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Coronavirus has already precarious music careers buffering
Stocks in Japan bounced after the ECB intervention
World 20.08.2024
ECB's monetary bazooka peps up Asian stocks
The so-called Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme comes just six days after the ECB unveiled a big-bank stimulus package that failed to calm nervous markets
World 20.08.2024
ECB brings 750 bn euro bazooka to virus fightback
Police said some 10,000 Muslims gathered in an open field in Raipur town in southern Bangladesh to pray "healing verses" from the Koran to rid the country of the deadly novel coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Massive Bangladesh coronavirus prayer gathering sparks outcry
Shuttered market stalls in Rome's Monteverde Vecchio district on Wednesday
World 20.08.2024
No layoffs, reduced rent: 'Italian cure' for pandemic
Britain has rolled out increasingly tough meaures to contain the coronavirus outbreak, after coming under fire for its earlier response
World 20.08.2024
UK to close schools, put troops on standby as coronavirus deaths rise
Qantas said its international flights would be suspended for at least two months
World 20.08.2024
Australian airline Qantas to cut all international flights
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