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Sanctions against Iran amid COVID-19 crisis ‘cynical’: Russia's Medvedev
Oct 25, 2020 03:34Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev described as "cynical" the sanctions imposed by Western countries against nations like Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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Trump denounces Fauci as a “disaster” who “got it wrong” about COVID-19
Oct 24, 2020 06:28US president Donald Trump denounced Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a “disaster” and possible “idiot” who “got it wrong” about COVID-19 — even though the president recently used Fauci’s words in a recent campaign commercial.
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Iran needs unity, solidarity more than ever: Ayatollah Khamenei
Oct 24, 2020 05:34Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran at the current critical time requires “cooperation, unity and solidarity” more than ever.
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Trump promises COVID-19 will end soon as US breaks daily record of infections
Oct 24, 2020 04:30President Donald Trump has promised his supporters that the COVID-19 pandemic will end soon as the United States reported more than 80,000 new coronavirus infections-- the highest daily tally since the pandemic began.
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Iran's coronavirus death toll exceeds 31,900
Oct 23, 2020 09:06Iran announced Friday that its death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 31,900.
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300,000 excess deaths this year suggest US COVID death rate is higher than reported
Oct 23, 2020 06:02The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Tuesday October 20th that hundreds of thousands more Americans died this year than in previous years, likely owing to the coronavirus pandemic. As of Tuesday afternoon, 225,698 Americans have died from coronavirus.
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COVID-19 in US prisons is far worse than previously thought, data trackers say
Oct 23, 2020 05:03Interviews with attorneys, volunteers and legal experts tracking COVID-19 data in prisons across the United States reveal that the pandemic is affecting incarcerated people even more than initially understood.
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Trump downplayed COVID at his town hall. No wonder he’s losing older voters
Oct 22, 2020 18:40The spread of COVID-19 poses a particular problem to Trump and his votes. The US government has taken the approach of denying the reality of the pandemic. That has indeed been the picture in Brazil and (to some extent) in Britain — in consequence, all three governments are in difficulty.
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COVID-19 spikes in US rural areas while hospitals face financial crisis
Oct 22, 2020 18:37In the United States, 132 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, including 15 this year, fanning fears that the infectious coronavirus could spread rapidly into rural states, reports say.
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Treasury says US budget gap tripled to record $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020
Oct 22, 2020 10:39The US budget deficit tripled to a record $3.1 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 as the government battled the global coronavirus pandemic that plunged the country into a recession, has taken more than 225,000 American lives and thrown millions out of work.