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Children walk in a devastated area of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, on April 16, 2018, where chemical weapons were suspected to have been used against citizens. The OPCW has concluded that three 2017 attacks in Latamneh were carried out by the Assad regime and involved chlorine and the nerve agent sarin.

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When asked why the Saudis would suddenly, after five years of war, propose a nationwide cease-fire, Elana DeLozier, a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who studies Yemen, attributed it to the pandemic.
She called the Saudi announcement “the biggest concession and the biggest confidence-building measure that the Saudis have given since the beginning of the war.”

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Spain is close to passing the worst of its coronavirus outbreak, the prime minister said, as parliament debated extending the national state of emergency. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Italian PM Giuseppe Conte said he might begin to relax some measures by the end of this month

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's condition "continues to improve" after his third night in intensive care with the coronavirus, his official spokesman said Thursday. "(Johnson) had a good night and continues to improve," the spokesman added "The news about the Prime Minister reminds us how indiscriminate this virus is."

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In response to COVID-19 pandemic, 188 countries have implemented country-wide school closures. Based on a modelling study, Ferguson et al. (2020) have concluded that school closures will reduce COVID-19 deaths in UK by 2-4% only. Given a vast majority of children and adolescents experience mild symptoms only, the greatest threat from COVID-19 is restricted learning, socializing and physical activity for 90% of the world's students currently out of education.

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Xu et al. (2020), in a retrospective study of 113 COVID-19 patients outside Wuhan, have identified the independent risk factors of prolonged viral RNA shedding. They claim that male gender, old age, delay in hospital admission after the onset of symptoms, and invasive mechanical ventilation are associated with prolonged RNA shedding. They suggest avoiding delays in hospital admission and general treatments.

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The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently provided new guidelines regarding the outbreak of coronavirus. The country is struggling to keep up with the increasing demand for masks. But now you can make your own mask, a bandana mask with hair ties, you need three things, Bandana, T-shirt or square cotton cloth, about 20" x 20", Coffee filter, Rubber bands or hair ties

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Reports on house pets and their owners testing positive for COVID-19 is leading to the abandonment of pets. Researchers at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan state that panic abandonment of animals during the pandemic is not justified. They argue that limiting human interactions is the mainstay to control the outbreak as SARS, a virus similar to COVID-19, showed no animal-to-human transmission and was contained by interrupting human-to-human transmission.

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Due to limited institutional capacity and high economic costs, the social distancing strategy being used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the United States or China cannot be replicated in developing countries like Bangladesh, says Yale's development economist, Mushfiq Mobarak. The primary reason is non-compliance with the social distancing guidelines by the wider population due to the government's limited capacity to provide stimulus package and economic support

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In a proposed draft, Turkey plans to ban layoffs in the country for at least three months to mitigate the economic impacts of coronavirus. The main focus of the draft is to protect employees who are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Many companies in Turkey have put employees on unpaid leaves. The new legislation will ban layoffs with authorization to President Erdogan to extend this period to six months

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As U.S. coronavirus deaths climb, some signs show the coronavirus' spread may be slowing in New York, the pandemic's epicenter. White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the national efforts to flatten the curve. Birx also reacts to President Trump's recent comments blaming the World Health Organization for the virus' spread.

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Ocean Park said its 14-year-old giant pandas, female Ying Ying and male Le Le, had been showing signs for a couple of weeks that they were entering the breeding season. About 9 a.m. Monday, the two pandas marked "the first success since the two giant pandas began attempts at natural mating a decade ago," Ocean Park said in a statement.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is giving an update on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday, a day after he reported the state's largest single-day increase in coronavirus deaths since the pandemic started.
Cuomo said he doesn't believe a single person died in the state because "we couldn't provide care." He said the question is: "Are you saving everyone you can save?

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The French navy's flagship, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, is returning to home port after dozens of crew members showed signs of COVID-19, the armed services ministry announced Wednesday.
The statement from France's Ministry of the Armed Forces comes after the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered carrier, experienced a similar outbreak.

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Nodis contributed to an upcoming report by the European Environmental Bureau, a collection of nonprofit groups, which documents environmental discrimination against Roma communities in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and North Macedonia. "People in our community leave to work in France or Italy," says Brisilda Taco, a Roma activist in Tirana, Albania's capital.

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The two foes have been negotiating since last week to try to finalise the prisoner swap that was originally supposed to have happened by March 10 and pave the way for "intra-Afghan" peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban.
On Tuesday, Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Qatar, said the group recalled its negotiators from Kabul, hours after it suspended talks on the prisoner exchange withtheAfghangovernment.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “responding to treatment” for the coronavirus as he remains in the intensive care unit of a London hospital, his spokesman told reporters Wednesday. Johnson will stay in St. Thomas’ Hospital “for close monitoring,” the spokesman said, according to the BBC and CNBC. He continues to be cared for in the intensive care unit at St Thomas’ hospital,” the spokesman told reporters.

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In an email interview published on Wednesday in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, Pope Francis said that the Coronavirus Pandemic is one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis. He added that the current crisis provides an opportunity to slow down the rate of production and consumption to understand nature. Pope has been tested twice for Coronavirus, results came negative

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Coronavirus cases in India are on the rise as the country reported 773 new cases in the last 24 hours along with 32 deaths. Indian Health Ministry confirmed that the total number of infections now stands at 5,194. Indian Council of Medical Research said that a total of 121,721 COVID19 tests have been done in the country so far.

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America now has more than 400,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the country, around 260,000 more than Spain which comes second on the list. The USA reported nearly 2,000 deaths yesterday, a new one-day record anywhere in the world. The total number of deaths in the US reached 12,800 with total recoveries stands at 21,711

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John Prime, an American influential songwriter, and singer died due to complications of COVID19 at the age of 73. His publicist tells CNN, "Yes, we can confirm on behalf of the Prine family, John died today at Vanderbilt due to complications of COVID-19."

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Pina Andelora and her partner Angelo Picone are street musicians who often perform traditional Neapolitan songs in Spaccanapoli, the heart of Naples. Picone hopes the solidarity baskets will inspire further acts of charity.
He wonders when the city streets will be bustling and he and Andelora will once again entertain tourists and residents with the songs of Naples.

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As the number of coronavirus cases surges in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a month-long state of emergency on Tuesday for Tokyo and six other prefectures in an attempt to slow the outbreak.

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At his daily briefing Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state recorded 731 deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, April 6 - the largest daily toll yet. But he said hospitals and overflow medical facilities like the USNS Comfort are cooperating and keeping up with demands so far.

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Police in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta have arrested at least 50 doctors who were protesting against the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits for health workers on the front lines of the country's battle against the coronavirus, officials and doctors' union representatives said.

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