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Millions of Syrians food insecure amid coronavirus pandemic: WFP
May 15, 2020 03:54The United Nations food agency says a record 9.3 million people are now food insecure in Syria, which has endured almost a decade of foreign-backed militancy and is under rounds of crippling economic sanctions imposed by the United States.
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Iran ready to share homegrown distance learning app with Muslim nations
May 15, 2020 02:52Iran’s Education Minister Mohsen Haji-Mirzaei voiced Tehran’s readiness to provide the other Muslims countries with a domestically-developed mobile application, dubbed SHAD, which offers distance learning programs as the coronavirus pandemic has shut down schools.
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Over 90,500 coronavirus patients recover in Iran
May 15, 2020 02:27Iranian Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoosh Jahanpoor said on Thursday that over 90,500 coronavirus patients have recovered and left the hospital in the country.
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Iran deplores ‘rampant racism’ against Afro-Americans under Trump
May 15, 2020 01:49The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the Washington government has failed “disastrously” to address the COVID-19 crisis across the US, particularity in dense black populated areas, due to “rampant racism and class inequality in the age of Trump.”
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People’s cooperation key factor in controlling coronavirus pandemic: Rouhani
May 14, 2020 13:12President Hassan Rouhani says solidarity among Iranian officials and good cooperation from people were major factors that helped the country rein in a deadly outbreak of the new coronavirus.
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China blasts US accusation of hacking COVID-19 research
May 14, 2020 11:38China says the United States is smearing the Asian country after Washington alleged that Chinese hackers were attempting to break into US COVID-19 research on developing a vaccine against the contagious disease.
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36.5 million Americans file for unemployment benefits
May 14, 2020 11:05A total of 36.5 million Americans have filed unemployment claims since mid-March following the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, according to a new report.
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Iran: Test kits sent to Turkey, though with delay, despite Turkish denial of delivery
May 14, 2020 07:59Iran reiterates that a consignment of 40,000 Iranian-made COVID-19 test kits has been sent to Turkey, although with a delay caused by transportation restrictions amid the pandemic, days after Turkish sources denied that the delivery had been made.
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Brazil passes France in recorded coronavirus cases to become world’s 6th country
May 14, 2020 07:57Brazil registered a record number of new cases of the new coronavirus on Wednesday, surpassing France’s tally to become the sixth worst-hit country, as the disease sends the economy toward its worst year since at least 1900.
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Saudi regime continues attacks on Yemen despite epidemic
May 14, 2020 05:53The Saudi-led coalition continues to launch airstrikes on various areas across Yemen at a time when the war-ravaged county is grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak.