Polish state becoming authoritarian, top judge Gersdorf says

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Japanese city cuts down 800,000 tulips after visitors refuse to stay away from cancelled flower festival

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Special Report: Trump told Saudis: Cut oil supply or lose U.S. military support - sources

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Teenager 'who spat at London bus driver during Covid-19 lockdown' arrested: He tried to pay his fare with a bank card but it would not process. The bus driver was spat at after telling the teenager he could not travel on the bus unless he paid using an alternative option.

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Captain Tom Moore given colonel title on 100th birthday

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British doctors warn some Chinese ventilators could kill if used in hospitals

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Russia Is Coercing Medical Students Into Coronavirus Fight: Students told The Moscow Times they face academic repercussions if they reject a government order to work in coronavirus hospitals. They also reported salaries drastically lower than promised.

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Morocco Has Increased Youth Literacy From 60% to close to 100% within a decade

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Survey Finds Working From Home Has So Many Benefits, 48% of Workers Would Take Pay Cut to Continue

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Clean air in Europe during lockdown ‘leads to 11,000 fewer deaths’

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday

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Canada set to ban assault-style weapons, including AR-15 and the gun used in Polytechnique massacre

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Top Chinese leaders fled to a secret resort to avoid coronavirus at the height of the outbreak, report reveals

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Former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer says the Chinese ambassador's conduct is almost unprecedented- calls out the coronavirus inquiry warning to Australia as ‘reckless, undiplomatic'.

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Sweden plans to ask European Union to investigate origin of coronavirus, further straining relations with China

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US Navy sends second ship into disputed waters after China claims it scrambled jets to expel U.S. destroyer

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Billionaire Kerry Stokes has used the front page of The West Australian newspaper to call on the Australian PM to appease China's anger at Australia's push for inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic - Stokes also mounted a defence of the exotic animal wet markets

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Amazon has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during the coronavirus pandemic from a Chinese firm the United States blacklisted over allegations it helped China detain and monitor Uighurs and other Muslim minorities

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Brazil to deploy troops to protect Amazon as deforestation surges

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Alberta Government named “most secretive provincial government in Canada”

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Kim Jong Un’s sister reportedly has been gaining power in North Korea

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Coronavirus: Outcry as Spanish beach sprayed with bleach — Authorities in coastal resort Zahara de los Atunes apologise after using tractors to spray more than 2km (1.2 mi) of beach with bleach in attempt to protect children from coronavirus. Beach and dunes are breeding sites for protected birds.

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Governments should not use taxpayer cash to rescue fossil fuel companies and carbon-intensive industries, but should devote economic rescue packages for the coronavirus crisis to businesses that cut greenhouse gas emissions and create green jobs, the UN secretary general has urged

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As a 'green stimulus', Pakistan sets virus-idled to work planting trees

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'So what?': Bolsonaro shrugs off Brazil's rising coronavirus death toll

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New antibody test with 99 per cent accuracy approved for use across Europe

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"Reinfected" patients were actually false positives due to 'dead' virus fragments, refuting reinfection

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Brazil Justice gives Bolsonaro 48 hours to hand over the results of two Covid-19 tests taken last month but refused to publish.

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Finland rejects 104,000 kilos of Israeli oranges with banned pesticide

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Beijing Slams India's 'Unfair' Decision To Cancel Chinese Antibody Testing Kit Order

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Billionaire miner Andrew Forrest accused of ambushing Australian government after he parachuted one of China’s top diplomats into an official event, blindsiding Health Minister Greg Hunt...by inviting Victorian China Consul-General Zhou Long to speak alongside him.

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China's Zijin Mining has warned Papua New Guinea that its failure to renew the lease of a gold mine could damage bilateral relations - PNG said it would not renew a 20-year mining lease, citing environmental damage and social unrest even as gold prices have soared to more than seven-year highs

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China infuriated as Netherlands changes its representative office’s name in Taiwan

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Taiwan reports zero new coronavirus cases for 4th day in a row, has not seen a locally transmitted case in 17 days

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‘Mask diplomacy’: Taiwan donates half a million masks to Canada with appeal for closer ties

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No COVID-19 bailouts for firms that use tax havens, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says

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Oxford University says it is cutting its ties to the fossil fuel industry - The institution will also ask its fund managers to show evidence of net zero carbon business plans

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Taiwan has called on Australia to back its campaign to join the World Health Organisation, despite China's objections, arguing it has much to teach the world about tackling coronavirus.

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Scientists uncover evidence coronavirus could trigger diabetes in healthy adults

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Khashoggi fiancée calls for Premier League to block Newcastle Saudi takeover

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Russians’ Trust in Putin Hits 14-Year Low – State Poll

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Australia asks China to explain 'economic coercion' threat in coronavirus row; Australia has asked the Chinese ambassador to explain his "threats of economic coercion" in response to Canberra's push for an international inquiry into the source and spread of the coronavirus

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Germany’s coronavirus infection rate edges higher after lockdown measures eased, prompting concerns

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A coronavirus-themed game has been blocked on Steam in China because of its politically motivated content: In order to win Coronavirus Attack, players have to stop "selfish zombies" from escaping a country infected with the virus.

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Pandemics will become worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn

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Russian soccer player to be "punished" for criticizing Vladimir Putin's coronavirus response

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Waiting for life to return to pre-pandemic normal? 'It won't,' PM Trudeau says | "If we want life to get back to the way it was exactly before, it won't. There will be differences, even a few years from now, that we will have learned from dealing with this."

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Coronavirus: Monkeys given Oxford vaccine did not catch COVID-19

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Germany and Britain said yesterday that efforts to revive the global economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic must ensure a ‘green recovery’ that helps the world tackle climate change.

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Brazil edges toward becoming next big Coronavirus hotspot: Scientists belive 1 million people to be infected in the country.

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Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, has announced plans to turn the city into a vast open-air cafe by giving over much of its public space to hard-hit bar and restaurant owners so they can put their tables outdoors and still observe physical distancing rules.

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Boris Johnson bans The Sunday Times from asking questions at U.K. daily coronavirus briefings in unprecedented move

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US ‘supports Taiwan joining WHO events’ in ministerial phone call

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Second Russian Doctor Falls From Hospital Window Amid Coronavirus: Unconfirmed reports citing colleagues suggested Lebedeva may have taken her own life after facing accusations of allowing Covid-19 outbreak to spread among cosmonaut training center’s medical staff.

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Prague mayor in protection after alleged assassin poison plot: The mayor of Prague confirmed he is under police protection a day after a Czech investigative magazine reported a Russian assassin had entered the country allegedly planning to kill him with poison.

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Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled if pandemic not over by 2021

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Norwegian billionaire, Tom Hagen arrested for the murder of his wife.

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Matt Hancock repeatedly refuses to accept PPE failures after being confronted by dead doctor's son

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Australia called 'gum stuck to China's shoe' by state media in coronavirus investigation stoush

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UN warns countries not to abuse coronavirus restrictions — The United Nations human rights office is warning countries that efforts to protect civilian populations and limit the spread of coronavirus must not morph into weapons for governments to tighten their grip on power.

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China threatens product,export boycotts if Australia launches investigation of Beijing's handling of coronavirus

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Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes investigation of Bolsonaro| Brazil’s Supreme Court has authorized an investigation into whether Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro committed crimes by allegedly attempting to interfere with the Federal Police

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Sweden has closed the country’s last coal-fired power station two years ahead of schedule. It becomes the third European country to exit coal completely after Belgium closed its last coal power station in 2016, and Austria ended its final coal-fired energy operations earlier this month.

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US admits killing civilians during air attacks in Somalia

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A 37-year-old man suspected of being a member of jihadist group Islamic State has gone on trial in Frankfurt Germany accused of genocide and murdering a young Yazidi girl. Taha al-J is accused of enslaving the five year old, chaining her up and leaving her to die of thirst

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Iceland won't be killing any whales this year: one company will stop altogether, while the largest whaling company in the country has halted its operations for the 2nd year in a row

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German doctors pose naked in protest at PPE shortages. Group says nudity is ‘a symbol of how vulnerable we are without protection’

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Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began

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Nurses have quit en masse from Russia’s top coronavirus hospital in Moscow over poor working conditions and low wages. They reportedly quit because they were denied clean protective gear, food and adequate accommodations, and were not paid bonuses promised by President Vladimir Putin.

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Over 700 Iranians Dead From Methanol Poisoning Over False Belief the Chemical Cures COVID-19

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Bangladesh cleric tests positive for coronavirus after leading Ramadan prayers

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These Uighur Journalists Are Investigating the Fate of 1 Million Muslims in China: Some of the most crucial reporting on Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang comes from the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia channel.

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Ambassador warns that China will stop students and tourists from visiting Australia over independent inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic

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Anti-gambling advocates say the coronavirus lockdown has been a relief for poker machine addicts

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Taiwan confirms no new COVID-19 cases for 5th time in April

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Italian woman tests positive for COVID-19 after 60 days of quarantine and swabbing

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UK NHS warns of rise in children with new illness with stomach pain and inflamed heart, that may be linked to coronavirus

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Chinese internet users who uploaded coronavirus memories to GitHub have been arrested

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Clergy criticise tax-haven firms seeking coronavirus cash - Senior members of the clergy including Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, have said the UK government should refuse to provide coronavirus bailouts to any companies registered in offshore tax havens.

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Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says easing lockdown would 'throw away effort and sacrifice of British people'.

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'Nigerian Housekeeper for Sale' Ad in Lebanon Prompts Calls to End Modern-Day Slavery

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Silence is golden for whales as lockdown reduces ocean noise

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‘Filthy bloody business:’ Poachers kill more animals as coronavirus crushes tourism to Africa. In Botswana, at least six rhinos have been poached since the virus shut down tourism there. In the northwest South Africa, at least nine rhinos have been killed since the virus lockdown.

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Coronavirus fears prompt new fines - People who deliberately spit, sneeze or cough on frontline workers will be fined up to $13,000 in Queensland Australia

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China Working Overtime to Suppress Research About Coronavirus Origin

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Releasing bison, reindeer and horses into the Arctic would slow warming, say scientists. A computerised simulation of conditions at the polar region found that with enough wildlife, 80 per cent of the world’s permafrost soils could be saved, preventing a vicious circle of environmental catastrophe.

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Belgians urged to eat frites twice a week to deplete coronavirus potato mountain

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A report has found right-wing groups have been primarily responsible for spreading online disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic - spread nearly four times as much disinformation online as left-leaning voices.

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Top Russian doctor falls from fifth floor window while on call complaining to bosses about lack of PPE for medics

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Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported

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Hokkaido Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World

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US Intelligence does not believe Kim Jong Un is dead.

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Psychedelic mushrooms for depression: Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are back in human trials to treat people with mental health conditions. It's a second revolution for a class of drugs shunned by 1960s society

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Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for children and public floggings

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Hong Kong police break up pro-democracy singing protest at mall

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South Korean presidential aide says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well"

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German minister backs creating legal right to work from home

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Hungary prepares to end legal recognition of trans people

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First wild stork chicks to hatch in Britain for centuries expected to emerge next month after three pairs of huge white birds built nests in West Sussex. Disdaining platforms constructed especially for them, storks created stick nests in heights of oak trees on Knepp estate.

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Richard Branson puts Virgin Atlantic up for sale as an attempt to save the airline from collapsing

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German police arrest over 100 during anti-lockdown protest

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China Seizes Over 89 Million Shoddy Face Masks As Beijing Faces A Slew Of Complaints About Faulty Protective Gear Exported Worldwide.

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Rare sighting of a juvenile Egyptian Vulture in South Africa - the species is thought to be extinct in the country

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In France, Amazon loses court appeal and must stop selling nonessential items to protect workers

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Don't forget 'deeper emergency', says UN chief | "Biodiversity is in steep decline," Mr Guterres stated. "Climate disruption is approaching a point of no return." Guterres is now proposing six climate-related actions that should shape the recovery after the virus.

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Chinese Government official slams Australia's push for an investigation into the coronavirus outbreak

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The Netherlands will pay reparations to Indonesian victims of colonial atrocities.

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Brazil's Federal Police named Carlos Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, as an organizer of a criminal scheme that spread fake news. The Supreme Court conducted the investigation

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China ‘will pay a price’ for causing ‘huge challenge’ for global economy, says Mike Pompeo

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Tibetan Language Diminished as Schools Switch to Mandarin — Children in the Tibetan Autonomous Region are losing fluency in the Tibetan language as schools in the region are increasingly teaching subjects in Mandarin on Chinese government orders, according to Radio Free Asia.

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New Zealand: 76.5% of Covid-19 cases have recovered, 3.7 deaths per million, 1st major cluster officially closed

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Ontario announces $4 an hour pandemic pay increase for front-line workers

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'The biggest myth about Sweden is that life is going on as normal'

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UK government removes China from its official coronavirus death toll comparison amid global outrage at Beijing's 'cover-up' and disbelief that the country has only had 4,636 deaths

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Locked down Romans sang an anti-Fascist resistance song out of windows Saturday as Italy celebrated the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Allied forces during World War II

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Tibetans forced to display portraits of Chinese leaders

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Hong Kong protests: Jailed man gets judge's sympathy for stabbing protesters

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Trump and Putin issued a symbolic statement for US and Russia to 'build trust, and cooperate,' raising fresh concerns about their relationship

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Worldwide virus death toll climbs to 200,000

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Climate crisis: Norway accused of ‘acting like Trump’ over refusal to set protected Arctic zone in areas where oil firms want to drill

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Chinese activists detained after sharing censored coronavirus material

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UK Government was warned last year to prepare for devastating pandemic, according to leaked memo

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Brazil's top public prosecutor has requested clearance to investigate allegations of political interference by President Bolsonaro. It comes after Justice Minister resigned, accusing the president of wanting to install a new federal police chief who would provide him with intelligence reports.

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Professor Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, authored a paper that prompted the UK to scrap its coronavirus strategy. His team warned Boris Johnson that "herd immunity" could cost 510,000 lives, prompting an abrupt U-turn.

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Coronavirus: No Evidence That Recovered Patients Are Immune, Says WHO. Health Agency Warns Governments Against Issuing ‘Immunity Passports’.

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Philippines wants Taiwan to deport Filipina who posted comments critical of President Duterte on Facebook

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Lebanon becomes first Arab country to legalise cannabis farming for medical use in bid to beat economic crisis: Cannabis has long been illegally farmed in the fertile Bekaa Valley and government now hopes to turn it into a legal billion-dollar trade.

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The Church of England’s investment arm has urged shareholders in ExxonMobil to vote against re-electing the oil company’s entire board for failing to take action on the climate crisis.

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North Koreans "panic buying" at Pyongyang shops, sources say

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Japanese media reports N. Korea's Kim Jong Un in vegetative state

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Trump’s Bleach Bullshit Starts Viral Disinfo Campaign in Africa

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Australian Coronavirus cases rise again as beach-goers slammed for not keeping social distance

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Coronavirus - The world needs a Chinese investigation, and it's 'owed it': NZ Deputy PM

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‘Don’t defend Trump – attack China’: coronavirus strategy revealed in Republican memo

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Brazil Breaks Record With Over 400 COVID-19 Deaths in One Day

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The Scottish government has published a bill that would decriminalise blasphemy, more than 175 years after the last case was prosecuted. New law will also offer wider protection against race, sex, age and religious discrimination.

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The Federation of German Food and Drink Industries (BVE) said the coronavirus pandemic has exposed poor cooking skills among Germans. Germans reliance on fast food and pre-cooked meals has left them with limited culinary skills when they need them most.

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We Have The First-Ever Credible Evidence of Someone Killed by a Falling Meteorite

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Newly revealed financial records show Trump owes millions to state-owned bank in China: report

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Chinese writer Fang Fang faces backlash and death threats for 'Wuhan Diary'. Her journal drew tens of millions of readers - but now that it is about to be published abroad in several languages, she is facing a nationalist backlash at home.

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Largest-ever hole in the ozone layer above Arctic finally closes

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Putin signs law allowing foreigners to become Russian without giving up existing citizenship

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Brazil justice minister to quit after Bolsonaro fires top cop

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern rejects plan to offer 2,000 visas to the super rich if individuals invest $50 million into the country

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Justin Trudeau confirms China blocking consular visits to the two detained Canadians, who have been held for 500 days

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Italy's daily coronavirus recoveries surpass new cases for the first time since the outbreak began

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U.S. says will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch

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Bleach manufacturers have warned people not to inject themselves with disinfectant after Trump wrongly suggested it may cure the coronavirus

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'World's loneliest dolphin' dies after two years living in abandoned Japanese aquarium

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2 Vietnamese kids use their own pocket money to send 20,000 face masks to the UK

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Osaka's mayor in Japan under fire for suggesting men should do grocery shopping because women are too indecisive and "take a long time" amid COVID-19 outbreak

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One million respirators acquired from China unfit for coronavirus fight; Canada's public health authority says around one million KN95 respirators acquired from China have failed to meet federal Covid-19 standards for use by frontline health professionals

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Armenians mark 105th anniversary of 1915 Armenian Genocide

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Reopened Sydney beaches shut down again due to crowds of people swarming the beaches and not exercising or practising social distancing

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Australia's Chief Medical Officer advises against injecting disinfectant to treat coronavirus

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Gothenburg axes twin city agreement with Shanghai as Sweden closes all Confucius Institutes

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Medical experts denounce Trump's latest 'dangerous' suggestion to treat Covid-19

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Koalas treated at the world's only all-koala hospital are finally being released back into the wild after the Australian Bushfires

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A North Korean defector shot by a Chinese border guard has tested positive for COVID-19. The man was trying to cross the Tumen River into China when he was shot and wounded by the border guard.

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Only a drunkard would accept these terms: Tanzania President cancels 'killer Chinese loan' worth $10 b

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Trudeau refuses calls to exclude tax haven companies from COVID-19 bailout

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Insect numbers down 25% since 1990, global study finds

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Covid-19 causes sudden strokes in young adults, doctors say

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Spain sends back faulty coronavirus tests made in China... which had been sent out to replace an earlier batch of faulty tests

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Google says all advertisers will soon have to verify their identities in an effort to curb spam, scams, and price gouging across the web

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5 straight days of no new cases of COVID-19 in Newfoundland, Canada

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'I was waiting for them to come': Democracy leader says China using pandemic to arrest Hong Kong protesters. ‘Countries are now busy fighting viruses. What better time could they have picked?’ Martin Lee says

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Doctors Are Begging Pakistan to Close Mosques or Risk a Coronavirus Catastrophe; Doctors say it was a huge mistake to bow to religious clerics, who demanded an end to government restrictions right before Ramadan

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France will block firms registered in offshore tax havens from claiming aid from government coronavirus bailout, following similar moves by Denmark and Poland...companies either registered, or controlling subsidiaries, in tax havens ineligible for 110 billion euros ($108 billion) rescue package.

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The ruling Democratic Party of Korea on Thursday vowed to raise the age of consent to 16 from 13 in its fight against child sexual abuse. The move comes a week after the Ministry of Justice said a 13-year-old is not mature enough to consent to sexual acts and that the age should be raised to 16.

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New Zealanders overwhelmingly back Ardern government on Covid-19 - 87% to 8%

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UK government urged to ban import of Chinese cotton 'made using Uighur forced labour'

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Merkel says we are still at the start of the coronavirus pandemic

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Sweden exits coal two years early - the third European country to have waved goodbye to coal for power generation. Another 11 European states have made plans to follow suit over the next decade.

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China coronavirus cases might have been four times official figure, says study

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Western Australian Police gave billionaire Kerry Stokes and his wife an exemption from mandatory hotel quarantine after they returned from the US on their private jet. The exemption meant they could return home amidst Government stance on strict quarantine rules for all Australians

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Researchers have found that the COVID-19 causes more than pneumonia - attacks lining of blood vessels all over the body, reducing blood circulation.

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Australia calls on G20 nations to end wet wildlife markets over coronavirus concerns

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China lashes out at Canada for expressing concern over Hong Kong arrests

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Lockdowns imposed to halt the spread of coronavirus have resulted in unprecedented reductions in deadly air pollution by up to 60% around the world

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50 Canadian Senators Call for a Minimum Basic Income

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Trump Organisation 'seeking UK and Irish financial aid' to cope with virus impact

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Pope Francis: Humans Have Sinned Against The Earth By Exploiting Its Resources. On Earth Day during the coronavirus pandemic, the pope reminded his flock that humanity has no future if the environment is destroyed.

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A major ISIS figure whom everyone thought was killed in Syria turned out to be living in a seaside town in Spain: Intelligence officials are astonished that he was able to evade international border guards and re-enter the continent unchallenged.

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UN Urges Us To Fight Climate Change Like Coronavirus

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A Chinese Citizen Journalist Who Filmed His Own Arrest In Wuhan Just Reappeared Online: Before his disappearance, Li posted videos from crematoriums, virology labs, and funeral homes inside the lockdown zone. Now he’s praising his captors who arrested, interrogated, and confined him for two months.

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PM Trudeau announces $9B in new COVID-19 funding for students | The benefit will see eligible postsecondary students receive $1,250 a month from May to August, and if you are taking care of someone else or have a disability, that amount increases to $1,750 monthly.

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Pandemic will drive biggest drop in CO2 emissions since WW II, World Meteorological Organization says | "We estimate that there is going to be a six per cent drop in carbon emissions this year because of the lack of emissions from transportation and industrial energy production."

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German shoppers not rushing back as stores reopen

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Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown | The Strade Aperte plan, announced on Tuesday, includes low-cost temporary cycle lanes, new and widened pavements, 30kph (20mph) speed limits, and pedestrian and cyclist priority streets. Work could start by the beginning of May

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UN warns of 'biblical' famine due to Covid-19 pandemic

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Trump orders US to 'shoot down and destroy' Iranian boats 'harassing' US warships

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German environmental activists are calling on the federal government to move faster with legislation protecting insects from extinction and banning the pesticide glyphosate

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Air-conditioning spread the coronavirus to 9 people sitting near an infected person in a restaurant in China, researchers say. It has huge implications for the service industry.

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An Australian medical supply company charging $786 for a box of 20 face masks is accused of exploiting coronavirus crisis

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Australian Prime Minister is lobbying world leaders to build an international coalition to give the WHO— or another body — powers equivalent to those of a weapons inspector to avoid another catastrophic pandemic like COVID-19

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Lebanon becomes first Arab country to legalize cannabis for medical use

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Right-Wing Responsible For Pushing Coronavirus Disinformation On Twitter Worldwide, New Report Says

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Doctors puzzled by ‘COVID toes’ - purple blotches that are appearing on children's toes, and occasionally fingers, that seem to be an indicator that a child is an asymptomatic carrier of coronavirus

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South Korea: Almost all university students want tuition refunds over COVID-19

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Coca-Cola and Pepsi are not doing enough to reduce their plastic waste footprint globally, according to a report. The charity Tearfund has compiled a league table of how the companies, and Unilever and Nestlé, are faring in their commitments set against a three-point plan.

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Neo-Nazis Are Spreading a List of Emails and Passwords for Gates Foundation and WHO Employees

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U.N. Secretary-General Says Climate Change Devastation Will Be 'Many Times Greater' Than Coronavirus Pandemic

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Ozone hole three times the size of Greenland opens over the North Pole

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The United States is now reporting more coronavirus deaths than any other country

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Google has banned the Zoom app from all employee computers over security vulnerabilities

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'I thought because I was young it wouldn't affect me': A man from Paisley, Scotland, who is recovering from coronavirus has called on young people not to underestimate the impact the virus can have.

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127 European politicians back Taiwan’s inclusion in the WHO

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“Glue” made from the bones of endangered tigers is being sold by Vietnamese trader to promote health during the pandemic

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A piece of string found in a cave in France shows that Neanderthals knew how to twist fibres together to make rope

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Livethread 11: Global COVID-19 Pandemic

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Spain's overnight coronavirus death toll at 510, lowest in 19 days

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Fears as Cambodia grants PM vast powers under Covid-19 pretext - Cambodia’s national assembly has passed a state of emergency law granting the country’s autocratic leader, Hun Sen, vast new powers, in what rights groups say is a cynical move to exploit the coronavirus pandemic.

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5G protesters sabotage Dutch phone towers

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China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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Brazil has become the first country in the southern hemisphere to surpass 1,000 deaths with coronavirus.

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Biodiversity loss and wildlife trade are making pandemics like COVID-19 more likely, experts say

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UK Health secretary Matt Hancock is facing a growing backlash over his claim that NHS workers are using too much PPE, with one doctors' leader saying that the failure to provide adequate supplies was a "shocking indictment" of the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak.

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WHO warns about dangers of premature lifting of Covid-19 restrictions

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UK CEOs taking Covid-19 pay cuts 'should not be rewarded with shares' - Companies whose bosses take pay cuts during the Covid-19 crisis should be wary of handing them lucrative share awards at the same time, investment advisers have warned.

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Brazil's president reject Covid-19 as a "little flu" and ignore social distances

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Taiwan reveals email to WHO; didn't say human-to-human transmission

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The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is on fire and radiation levels are spiking

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More than 200 doctors and nurses have died combating the coronavirus outbreak across the globe

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Canada calls for global ceasefire, while arming Saudi Arabia in their military campaign against Yemen

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Mexico closes U.S.-owned plant for allegedly refusing to sell ventilators to Mexican hospitals

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Coronavirus spreads at party for Venezuelan elite

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Massive eruption at Indonesian volcano Krakatoa - report

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Jane Goodall calls for global ban on wildlife trade and end to 'destructive and greedy period of human history'

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Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression'

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In Kenya, Zebra Mates With Donkey, Gives Birth To "Highly Unusual" Zonkey

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Coronavirus: 980 dead in UK hospitals in deadliest day of pandemic yet

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Taiwan scrambles jets to intercept Chinese warplanes

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More than 5,600 sexual health clinics have shut due to the new coronavirus, risking more deaths from unsafe abortions and denying women access to HIV tests and drugs, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) warned on Friday.

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Far-right terrorist ringleader found to be teenager in Estonia: A group known as Feuerkrieg Division (fire war division) was led by a 13-year-old from Estonia. The teenager shared bomb-making instructions and wanted to set up a terrorist training camp

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Coronavirus: US Officials Knew Of Wuhan Health Crisis In November, A Second Report Claims

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Japan's sudden spike in coronavirus cases after Tokyo Olympics postponement raises eyebrows

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Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice.

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A small, specialized unit within the Canadian military's intelligence branch began producing detailed warnings and analysis about the emergence of the deadly novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China in early January, CBC News has learned.

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French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

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New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa

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Coronavirus: Chile’s elite scolded for escaping by helicopter for Easter holiday amid outbreak - Interior minister says citizens have ‘moral duty’ to stay home, as wealthy Santiago residents sneak off to coastal enclaves

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Dutch report 2,000 extra deaths in early April, likely due to coronavirus

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More than 240,000 Chinese companies declare bankruptcy in the first two months of 2020

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Wuhan rent protest shows unrest brewing in China after lockdown

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5G virus conspiracy theory fuelled by coordinated effort involving bot accounts, researchers say

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Canada and France say donations of coronavirus masks won't influence decisions on Huawei and 5G

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Indian State of Haryana doubles salaries of frontline health department staff amid coronavirus.

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Blood tests show 14% of people are now immune to COVID-19 in one town in a hard-hit part of Germany

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Sask. researchers say they successfully decontaminated test run of N95 masks for reuse

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Mexican Drug Cartel Gives Out Food to the Poor Amid Pandemic

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African students and businessmen on the streets for second night following mass eviction of African nationals from hotels

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Mexican mayor 'shot dead' by drug gang after blocking roads amid coronavirus lockdown

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Doctor who warned prime minister Boris Johnson about PPE dies with COVID-19

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South African President extends the nationwide 21 day lockdown by two more weeks and announces his entire Cabinet and all the Premiers will take a one-third pay cut over the next three months as a donation to the Solidarity Fund set up as a response against the COVID-19 pandemic

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson released from intensive care

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Hedge funds 'raking in billions' during coronavirus crisis

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People infected with COVID-19 may spread the disease when they speak and breathe, not only when they let out a hearty cough

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London bus drivers are dying from coronavirus. Demands to protect them better are growing.

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More Than Half of Passengers on Antarctica Cruise Test Positive For Coronavirus

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China declares dogs are companions and should not be eaten, signalling possible end to brutal meat trade

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Coronavirus reaches Amazon's isolated Yanomami tribe. Fears grow as Brazil confirms a 15-year-old Indigenous Yanomami boy contracted COVID-19.

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IMF chief says pandemic will unleash worst recession since Great Depression

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Obesity is major COVID-19 risk factor, says French chief epidemiologist

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Pakistan doctors treating coronavirus patients jailed for protesting lack of equipment

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EU top diplomat says Russia, China seek to use the pandemic to extend their influence

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NHS Staff Forbidden From Speaking Out Publicly About Coronavirus.

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