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Leader on the ultimate goal of establishment of Islamic civilization (4)
Jun 03, 2020 09:16Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, delivered a memorable speech to the nation via videoconferencing on May 17 with the participation of several student groups and academicians, some of whom before His Eminence’s guidelines expressed their viewpoints on the current affairs of the country.
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California Sheriff refuses to release people from jail as COVID outbreak rages
Jun 02, 2020 12:23California Sheriff Chad Bianco recently made a splash in the conservative media after he told Riverside County officials that his department would not enforce local public health orders meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Trump boosts nuclear weapons spending, fueling a new arms race
Jun 01, 2020 10:58Under Trump, nuclear spending and tensions are sharply increasing, but U.S. allies are anxious and uncertain and adversaries are antagonized. At a time when more than 100,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that can’t be stopped with a bomb, both the ICAN and ANPI reports illustrate how Trump’s unrestrained embrace of nuclear weapons is not making a U.S. that is safer, only a U.S. that is alone.
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Lockdown is dangerous for Rohingya women, girls
May 31, 2020 05:35At least 15,000 Rohingya refugees are under quarantine in Bangladesh's vast camps, as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections there rose to nearly 30. Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped settlements, housing almost a million Rohingya who fled violence in Myanmar, and officials had restricted movement in the area in April.
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Lancet study on Hydroxychloroquine shows Trump 'as usual, is dangerously wrong' on Covid-19 guidance
May 30, 2020 05:19Seriously ill Covid-19 patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine were more likely to die or develop dangerous irregular heart rhythms, according to a large observational study published recently in the medical journal The Lancet.
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Mnuchin wants to deny unemployment to workers who stay home due to COVID risk
May 30, 2020 05:17The US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has recently assured conservative lawmakers that unemployment benefits could not be collected by workers who refused to return to work out of fear of contracting coronavirus. While speaking before the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. David Perdue questioned Mnuchin on whether additional aid of $600 per week in unemployment “disincentivizes” people from returning to work.
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COVID-19 reveals the inherent vindictiveness of migration detention
May 30, 2020 05:09The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the glaring injustices of the immigration detention system. Among the dilemmas that quickly gained attention in countries across the globe as COVID-19 took hold was how to manage prisons and safeguard inmates during the pandemic.
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Trump ridicules Biden’s use of a face mask as US COVID infections near 2 million
May 29, 2020 09:51The US president has flouted the idea of him needing to wear facial coverings since the CDC started making recommendations for Americans to do so. In early April, asked why he didn’t want to wear a mask, Trump suggested he was more concerned with how he’d appear to world leaders if he was wearing a mask in the Oval Office.
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A tale of two pandemics
May 29, 2020 09:49Systematic inequality in the United States of America has produced two very different pandemics: In one, billionaires are sheltering in place on their yachts in the Caribbean, and wealthy families are safely quarantining in multimillion-dollar mansions. In the other boats sit people risking their lives for their jobs and people without incomes going hungry, a disproportionate number of whom are people of color, and all of whom deserve better.
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World health leaders urge green recovery from coronavirus crisis
May 29, 2020 04:18Studies have suggested that air pollution may play a role in worsening COVID-19 symptoms or increasing mortality, though scientists also say it is too early to draw hard conclusions about the full impacts. However, the clearing skies that have accompanied lockdown in many countries are under threat, as industrial activity resumes without new safeguards.