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Software firm reports spike in coronavirus-related cyber attacks
Apr 21, 2020 02:49Cyber attacks related to the coronavirus pandemic have seen a spike, reports a software firm.
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Aerial views of empty Athens streets and landmarks as no easing in lockdown
Apr 21, 2020 02:43Silence engulfed Athens cobbled streets, tourists markets and ancient landmarks on Monday (April 20) as authorities said a nation-wide lockdown will continue until April 27 without easing.
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US sanctions on Iran ‘barbaric crime’ amid COVID-19 pandemic, Rouhani tells Italy PM
Apr 21, 2020 01:41President Hassan Rouhani has described the US sanctions against his country amid a coronavirus pandemic as “a barbaric crime”, urging European countries to stand up to such inhumane measures.
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UNICEF appeals for $90m to help West Asia children amid pandemic
Apr 21, 2020 01:15UNICEF has called for $92.4 million in new funds to help combat the effects of the novel coronavirus on poverty-stricken areas in West Asia and North Africa.
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Coronavirus pandemic shows West's failure, immorality: Syrian President
Apr 20, 2020 10:52Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the ongoing global crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed Western countries' failure and immorality.
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Caracas slams Washington for seizure of Venezuela's money in US bank
Apr 20, 2020 10:12Following instructions by President Donald Trump, the US government has ordered the transfer of some $342 million in funds from a Venezuelan Central Bank account at US-based Citibank to an account controlled by opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido.
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Islamabad, New Delhi spar over treatment of minorities, virus response
Apr 20, 2020 09:47Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan says the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is deliberately targeting Muslims in India to divert attention from its poor response to the coronavirus epidemic.
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US oil collapses to $11 as world awash with crude
Apr 20, 2020 09:23US oil prices dived to 22-year lows at just $11 Monday after crashing almost 40 percent in a market flooded with crude and slammed by evaporating demand in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
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US black woman died of coronavirus after hospital repeatedly refused to admit her
Apr 20, 2020 09:14An African American woman says her sister died of the coronavirus because a New York hospital repeatedly refused to admit her.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro joins demo against stay-at-home orders
Apr 20, 2020 03:22Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday joined hundreds of demonstrators outside army headquarters in the capital Brasilia protesting stay-at-home orders issued by state governors.