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Habit that puts you at greatest virus risk
The Daily Telegraph Australia 10 Apr 2020
If you’re a smoker and you’ve been thinking about quitting, there couldn’t be a better time to put an end to the habit .......
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Vietnam challenges China's monopoly on coronavirus diplomacy
The Times of India 10 Apr 2020
HANOI. Vietnam is challenging China's dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump for a shipment of protective suits ... Trump thanked "our friends in Vietnam" on Thursday for that shipment ... Download ... Top Videos ... ....
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Spanish Influenza Helped End WWI. Can COVID-19 Do The Same With Conflicts Today?
WorldNews.com 10 Apr 2020
disgruntled and mutinous troops and a lack of recruits.No One Paid AttentionBased on clinical reports and genomic studies, scientists believe that the Spanish flu had been circulating within the armies of World War I for a long time, years before the pandemic of 1918-21 ... It includes new recruits that were sent across the seas to fight....
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Truth About 9/11: WTC 7 'Not Destroyed By Fires'
WorldNews.com 08 Apr 2020
The collapse of the iconic, 47-storey World Trade Center Building 7 in New York City on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, was not a result of fire, as previously thought ... NIST’s 2008 report had concluded that WTC 7 was the first tall building ever to collapse primarily due to a fire ... Source....
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"1,000 Terrorists Killed In Offensive Against Boko Haram," Says Chad Army
NDTV 09 Apr 2020
The Chadian army said today it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed ... ....
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Trump sees 'big, not small bounce' on horizon for US economy
TVNZ 10 Apr 2020
On the same day the federal government announced 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs sweep the nation, President Donald Trump said he saw sunny skies ahead for the US economy. Your playlist will load after this ad. The government announced 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week ... APTN....
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Saudi, Russia outline record oil cut as demand crashes
Gulf Daily News 10 Apr 2020
Dubai/Moscow/London. OPEC, Russia and other allies outlined plans on Thursday to cut their oil output by more than a fifth and said they expected the United States and other producers to join in their effort to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis ... Discussions among top global energy ministers will resume on Friday ... ....
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Chinese government reveals draft list of animals which can be farmed for meat
CNN 10 Apr 2020
Hong Kong (CNN)The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is suspected to have originated from wild animals in a Wuhan wet market ... Two species of fox, raccoons and minks can be kept as livestock but not for their meat ... Read More ... ....
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Coronavirus rips through Navajo nation as officials scramble to respond
The Irish Times 09 Apr 2020
When Chad Yazzie joined the Navajo police department just a few months ago, he expected to issue speeding tickets or break up the occasional fistfight. But coronavirus is now tearing across the largest Indian reservation in the United States ... While the Navajo Nation may not technically be at war with the virus, it does not feel at peace either ... ....
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China says Taiwan attacks on WHO are ‘venomous’
Asahi News 10 Apr 2020
BEIJING/TAIPEI--China has accused Taiwan of “venomously” attacking the World Health Organization (WHO), seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments, after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island ... The WHO denies this ... “We strongly condemn this.”. Green is the DPP’s party color ... ....
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Militants kill 5 banker employees in Afghanistan's western province
China.dot.org 10 Apr 2020
HERAT, Afghanistan, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants killed five employees of Da Afghanistan Bank, the country's Central Bank, in western province of Herat on Thursday, a local official said Friday ... The militants managed to flee the area soon after killing the victims ... Enditem ....
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks India for delivering hydroxychloroquine to Israel
The Times of India 10 Apr 2020
JERUSALEM. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for rushing a five-tonne cargo of medicines, including anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, seen as a possible cure for Covid-19. "Thank you, my dear friend @narendramodi, Prime Minister of India, for sending Chloroquine to Israel ... ....
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Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter
The Siasat Daily 10 Apr 2020
Vatican City. Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown ... “We have to respond to our confinement with all our creativity,” Francis said in an interview published by several Catholic newspapers this week ... Source....
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Nicaraguan president missing in action for nearly one month and counting
The Jakarta Post 10 Apr 2020
During Nicaragua's devastating civil war in the 1980s, youthful revolutionary Daniel Ortega toured every town in the Central American nation, clad in his green Sandinista uniform ... As in 2014, another time he dropped off the map, his absence has even prompted speculation he may have died ... Ortega's health has often been a closely guarded secret ... ....
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Covid-19 cases in Russia surge past 10,000 after record daily rise
Gulf Daily News 09 Apr 2020
Moscow. Russia on Thursday reported a record one-day rise in cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19), pushing the official tally to more than 10,000, a day after President Vladimir Putin said the coming weeks would prove decisive in the fight against the virus ... That brings the overall death toll to 76 ... ....
