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Coronavirus pandemic 'amplifies press freedom threats'

Apr 21, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating threats to press freedom around the world, with authoritarian states including China and Iran suppressing details of the outbreak, activists sa...
Trump to ban immigration over pandemic threat

Apr 21, 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Donald Trump said he would temporarily ban immigration to the United States because of the "Invisible Enemy" of the coronavirus, as angry Americans took to the streets to demand a...
UN experts want to blacklist 14 ships over N. Korea sanctions

Apr 19, 2020

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN experts have recommended blacklisting 14 vessels for violating sanctions against North Korea in a report that accuses the country of increasing illegal coal exports, imports ...
Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseases

Apr 16, 2020

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Lavina D’Souza hasn’t been able to collect her government-supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India’s 1.3 billion people last month during the coronavirus outb...
Trump directs halt to payments to WHO during virus pandemic

Apr 15, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off US payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do...
Health officials warn NYC could run out of virus test swabs

Apr 13, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is in danger of running out of swabs for COVID-19 tests and should only test hospitalized patients, the city health department said in a memo to health care providers o...
Health or wealth? Nations pressured to loosen virus rules

Apr 13, 2020

MADRID (AP) -- As the coronavirus pandemic throws millions out of work and devastates economies worldwide, governments are struggling with the delicate balance between keeping people safe from a high...
[Newsmaker] Bill Gates calls for funding from G-20 members to develop vaccine against coronavirus

Apr 12, 2020

In order for the world to better contain the spread of the coronavirus, leaders of the Group of 20 (G-20) major economies should provide more funding to develop a vaccine, Bill Gates said. In an opi...
Why African Americans are dying at higher rates from COVID-19

Apr 8, 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The new coronavirus isn’t biased about whom it infects -- so why does data emerging from some states suggest that African Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic in the US...
UK’s Johnson spends night in ICU; not on ventilator

Apr 7, 2020

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent the night in the intensive care unit of a London hospital with the new coronavirus, but is not on a ventilator, a senior government minister s...
Virus puts UK PM in intensive care; Japan declares emergency

Apr 7, 2020

London (AP) -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care Tuesday fighting the coronavirus, while across the world, Japan’s leader declared a monthlong state of emergency for Tokyo an...
Global coronavirus death toll tops 70,000

Apr 6, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- The new coronavirus has killed more than 70,000 people across the globe, the majority in Europe, according to an AFP tally Monday at 1100 GMT. Out of a total of 70,009 killed in the p...
France asks South Korea to share knowhow from fight against coronavirus

Apr 6, 2020

France asked South Korea on Monday to share its knowhow related to containing the novel coronavirus, Seoul's transport ministry said, as both countries are striving to stop the spread of the highly c...
WHO chief requests Moon's role in global fight against coronavirus

Apr 6, 2020

The head of the United Nations health agency on Monday asked South Korean President Moon Jae-in to come to the fore in the global war against the coronavirus so that other countries can follow in his...
Global coronavirus cases top 1 million as pandemic spreads

Apr 3, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- The number of officially reported coronavirus cases worldwide topped the one million mark on Thursday, signifying a sharp acceleration in the number of infections and deaths over the p...