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According to a report published by Airports Council International, passenger traffic at the world's top 20 busiest airports grew by 1.7% in 2019, but all the before the coronavirus pandemic. The world's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport saw 110.5 million passengers in 2019. Beijing Capital International Airport was the world's second-busiest airport for passenger traffic in 2019, with 100 million passengers

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Russia added more than 9,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as the total number of cases reached 335,882 according to the latest numbers released by the health authorities. Brazil on Saturday briefly had the second-highest number of reported cases in the world, after the United States, until Russia gave updated numbers that put its total back above Brazil’s. Global coronavirus cases topped 5.3 million

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After spending months in lockdown, Europeans are looking towards beaches to take care of the heat during the summer season. European Union unveiled a plan to "offer people the chance to get some well-needed rest, relaxation and fresh air," including relaxations in the hospitality sector to boost tourism. But authorities are already struggling to deal with an influx of tourists at famous beach locations

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Former Vice President and Presidential candidate Joe Biden said Amazon should "start paying their taxes" in a broader critique of large, successful businesses. "I don't think any company, I don't give a damn how big they are, the Lord Almighty, should absolutely be in a position where they pay no tax and make billions and billions and billions of dollars" he added

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India recorded the biggest single-day rise in new coronavirus cases as the country added 6,600 new cases. Maharashtra confirmed nearly 3,000 fresh cases on Friday, the highest single-day coronavirus infections in any state so far. The total number of coronavirus cases in India reached 125,101 today. India set a record for daily new cases for the fourth consecutive day

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iranian Foreign Minister Javid Zarif of "echoing Hitler's call for genocide" in a Friday morning tweet regarding an Iranian push for what organizers call a "final solution" referendum aimed at creating an official Palestinian state. The tweet from Zarif that Pompeo was referring to in his post included a veiled reference to Nazi Germany's genocide against the Jewish people.

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Cyclone Amphan has killed more than 80 people as it uprooted trees and damaged homes, power lines and telephone cables across much of India's West Bengal state. Police and teams from India's national disaster response force were already out clearing roads and repairing communication lines Thursday, but West Bengal state's Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, said it would take ," at least three days just to assess the damage.

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"So we, the sons of the martyr Jamal Khashoggi, announce that we have pardoned (those) who killed our father," the family added in the statement. The United Nations rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, Agnes Callamard , who led a high-profile investigation into Khashoggi's murder, called the family pardon "the final act of the parody of justice."

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British researchers testing an experimental coronavirus vaccine are moving into advanced studies and aim to immunize more than 10,000 people to determine if the shot works. Last month, scientists at Oxford University began immunizing more than 1,000 volunteers with their vaccine candidate in a preliminary trial designed to test the shot’s safety, the AP reports.

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The World Health Organization said on Friday that South America is the new epicenter of coronavirus due to a massive rise in new coronavirus cases in the region. “We’ve seen many South American countries with increasing numbers of cases and clearly there’s a concern across many of those countries, but certainly the most affected is Brazil at this point,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s emergencies program said.

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New York City mayor, Bill De Blasio is hopeful of a June reopening. The city has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic but the curve has flattened. The mayor hopes it will happen in the first two weeks of June. “All roads are leading to the first half of June,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. He announced the door to reopening inches open as early as June 1

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Indian PM Modi announced ease in lockdown restrictions in the newly announced lockdown 4.0, but the cases are on the rise as the country reported 6,088 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. The total number of novel coronavirus cases touched 1,18,447. The worst-hit state continued to be Maharashtra. It crossed the 40,000 mark and reported 3,345 new cases and 64 new fatalities in past one day

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As reported previously, all 50 states in the US have partially reopened, including essential services like retail stores, and now two US states, Ohio and West Virginia expanded restaurant services by allowing indoor dining starting Thursday. West Virginia also reopened indoor shopping malls and state park campgrounds as part of its “West Virginia Strong – The Comeback” plan

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British Multinational Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca received $1 billion in funding from the U.S. Health Department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a coronavirus vaccine from the University of Oxford. The pharma giant has agreed to initially supply at least 400 million doses of the vaccine and secured total manufacturing capacity to produce 1 billion doses, with first deliveries in September

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Brazilian Health Ministry reported 19,951 new coronavirus cases in less than 24 hours as the total number of cases in the country reached 291,579. The country is now third with the most number of coronavirus cases. This new surge tops the previous record set Tuesday. Reported deaths caused by coronavirus also increased by 888 on Wednesday, bringing to the country's total to 18,859 deaths, the ministry said

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According to a report published by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the society as human development set to fall for the first time on record this year. “For vast swathes of the globe, the pandemic will leave deep, deep scars,” Achim Steiner, the UNDP’s administrator, said in the report

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Director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom-Ghebreyesus reported the biggest one-day jump in global coronavirus cases since the outbreak after 106,000 cases were reported in less than 24 hours. “We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” Tedros said at a briefing in Geneva. “In the last 24 hours, there have been 106,000 cases. Almost two-thirds of these cases were reported in just four countries.”

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Kolkata, an eastern Indian city near the Bay of Bengal has been devastated by the powerful cyclone Amphan. Cyclone Amphan made landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people as it lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain. Many of Kolkata's 14 million people are without electricity and communications have been disrupted

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A man in Singapore has been sentenced to death via a zoom video call as the country remained under lockdown. Punithan Genasan, 37, received the sentence on Friday for his role in a drug deal that took place in 2011. Human rights groups argued that pursuing the death penalty at a time when the world is being gripped by a pandemic was "abhorrent".

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Global coronavirus cases jumped above 5 million as the death toll in the US crossed 90,000. America is reopening, and all 50 states have started easing coronavirus-related restrictions, even though many of them do not meet federal benchmarks, leading public health experts to warn that a new surge of infections could be imminent. White House officials continued to defend the push to reopen and optimistically predicted a swift economic recovery

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US President Donald Trump is considering a travel ban on Brazil after the Latin American country suffered its deadliest day so far. “We are considering it. We hope that we are not going to have a problem,” Trump told reporters at the White House late Tuesday. “I don’t want people coming over here and infecting our people. I don’t want people over there sick either” Trump added

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According to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, global coronavirus cases reached 4.98 million. More than 324,000 people have died so far from COVID-19. The US tops the list with more than 1.57 million cases, Russia came at the second spot with nearly 300,000 cases. Brazil recorded its largest single-day jump in coronavirus cases and deaths on Tuesday, the country added 17,408 cases in less than 24 hours

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Indian migrant worker's crisis is getting worse by the time, after a lockdown in the country of more than 1.3 billion people, millions of migrant workers found themselves without income and jobs on March 24. So with the looming fear of hunger, men, women, and children are forced to begin arduous journeys back to their villages, cycling or hitching rides on tuk-tuks, lorries, water tankers, and milk vans

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According to a research published by the National Institute of Health, coronavirus particles released by talking can remain in the air for 8 to 14 minutes, a warning sign that airborne transmission may be even more widespread than previously thought. While coughing and sneezing can transmit respiratory viruses through droplets, it’s less known that just regular talking produces thousands of oral fluid droplets, the scientists behind the study said

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Budget airline EasyJet announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a major cyberattack from a “highly sophisticated” source. The hack left 9 million customers details’ exposed. EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said in a statement that the company takes the cybersecurity of its systems seriously, “however, this is an evolving threat as cyber attackers get ever more sophisticated.”

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