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About 900 million confined worldwide due to coronavirus restrictions
Mar 21, 2020 15:36The COVID-19 pandemic, with well over 11,000 deaths globally as of Saturday, has resulted in many countries across the planet enforcing restrictions on the movement of people, shutting down schools, and forcing millions to work from home.
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Coronavirus updates, Europe’s death toll surpasses 5,000
Mar 21, 2020 07:20The death toll from the new coronovirus has surpassed 5,000 in Europe - the new epicenter of the pandemic – as the number of confirmed cases continues to rise across the continent.
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US judge says conditions in overcrowded border holding cells violate Constitution
Feb 20, 2020 08:20A US judge has ruled in favor of refugees, held in overcrowded border detention centers under inhumane conditions, banning authorities from holding asylum seekers for more than 48 hours in a facility in the state of Arizona.
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Iran bartering medicine for food with South Americans: Deputy minister
Feb 12, 2020 13:19Head of the Food and Drug Administration of Iran says the country is bartering medicine produced in the country with food imported from South America.
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Migrants raped and trafficked as US and Mexico tighten borders: Charity
Feb 12, 2020 10:31Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
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At least 200 killed or abused after being deported by US: HRW
Feb 05, 2020 10:16At least 200 people have been either murdered or abused and sexually assaulted after the US deported them back to El Salvador as US President Donald Trump continues crackdown on “illegal aliens.”
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Mexico deports hundreds of migrants to Honduras
Jan 30, 2020 08:15Mexico's government has returned hundreds of Hondurans back to their country after it largely halted a caravan of undocumented Central Americans migrants who waded across a river into Mexico.
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Children go missing as US-bound refugees clash with Mexican forces
Jan 21, 2020 09:02Mexican forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American refugees as they tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States.
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Guatemala cuts ties with Venezuela in kowtow to US
Jan 17, 2020 09:01Guatemala's newly-elected President Alejandro Giammattei has severed diplomatic relations with Venezuela, a move that was swiftly censured by the government in Caracas for being an act of subservience to the US administration.
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Police fire tear gas at migrants near Honduras-Guatemala border
Jan 16, 2020 08:47At a border crossing between Honduras and Guatemala migrants travelling to the US were tear-gassed by police on Wednesday (January 15).