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Iran needs no charity from US, only wants bans lifted amid virus crisis: Zarif
Apr 07, 2020 13:13Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran, as a resource-rich nation, needs no charity from US President Donald Trump in its battle against a coronavirus pandemic, calling Washington instead to stop standing in the way of Tehran’s oil sales and banking transactions.
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Growing concerns about coronavirus deaths in UK prisons
Apr 07, 2020 13:12As most of the attention is focused on the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s deteriorating health, the coronavirus crisis rages unnoticed in the darkest corners of Britain, namely the country’s prisons.
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Doctors strike in southwest Pakistan in row over coronavirus protection
Apr 07, 2020 10:56Pakistani doctors went on strike at two hospitals in southwestern Quetta on Tuesday, a day after police used force to break up and detain medics protesting against a lack of gear to protect them against the coronavirus.
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$50 million saved in Iran through localization of 30 medicines
Apr 07, 2020 10:12Authorities say some $50 million has been saved through a new scheme for production at home of 30 medicines that used to be imported into the country from abroad.
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Iran-made coronavirus test kits, ventilators, anti-viral masks to hit market
Apr 07, 2020 07:18An Iranian university researcher says domestically-developed coronavirus diagnostic test kits, light-weight ventilators and virus-killing facemasks will soon enter the mass-production stage.
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Mosques converted into factories as Iran fights coronavirus
Apr 07, 2020 06:06At a Tehran mosque converted into factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against the coronavirus.
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New York City considers mass grave in park for COVID-19 victims: City councilman
Apr 07, 2020 04:50The chair of the New York City Council’s health committee said on Monday that officials are considering temporarily burying people who die from the coronavirus in local parks.
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Germany’s Merkel: Coronavirus EU’s biggest test since foundation
Apr 07, 2020 03:51German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the coronavirus pandemic is the “biggest test” that the European Union has faced since its foundation, adding that it is important that the bloc “emerges strong” from the economic crisis caused by the disease.
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Arab League chief urges release of Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails amid pandemic
Apr 07, 2020 02:47The secretary general of the Arab League has appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli detention centers amid rising cases of infection with a new coronavirus in the occupied territories.
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Iran draws €1bn from sovereign wealth fund to fight virus
Apr 07, 2020 02:39Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has approved a government request for tapping into the sovereign wealth fund to finance the current nationwide fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.