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'Completely upside down': As most Americans struggled during first six months of pandemic, billionaire wealth surged by $845 billion
Sep 28, 2020 07:49Six months into a devastating pandemic that has taken the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, the total net worth of the country's 643 billionaires has ballooned by $845 billion, which amounts to a 29% increase in their collective wealth since March 18.
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Qatar Airways got $1.95 billion government lifeline after losses widened
Sep 27, 2020 12:24Qatar Airways received a 7.3 billion riyals ($1.95 billion) lifeline from the Qatar government after losing 7 billion riyals in the year to March 31, the state-owned group disclosed on Sunday.
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Zionist regime promised to slow down home demolitions during COVID-19, it stepped them up instead
Sep 26, 2020 09:33The Zionist regime destroyed nearly 90 Palestinian-owned structures last month, rendering 202 people homeless, half of them children.
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Daily death toll surpasses 200 in Iran
Sep 25, 2020 14:28The daily death toll from coronavirus infection in Iran has once again exceeded 200, while the total number of cases since the outbreak of the disease in the country is close to 440,000, the Health Ministry said.
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North Korea expresses ‘regret’ over ‘unfortunate’ killing of South Korean: Seoul
Sep 25, 2020 08:36Seoul says North Korea has expressed regret over the “unfortunate” and "unexpected" killing of a South Korean official for fear of carrying the coronavirus in the North's territory this week.
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Fox Lied, 200,000 died: Video mash-up chronicles cable network downplaying COVID-19 dangers as pandemic soared
Sep 24, 2020 16:52As the United States passes the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, Fox News continues to mostly ignore the ever-mounting death toll in favor of complaining about health measures meant to mitigate the pandemic's worst-case scenario.
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Trump spreads misinformation with claim that Dems wrote Ginsburg’s dying wish
Sep 24, 2020 16:50US President Donald Trump made false assertions recently regarding the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish, insinuating that her request to have her successor named after the election was crafted by leading Democrats in Congress.
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Astounding: Trump officials reportedly bypassed CDC scientists to publish 'dangerous' COVID-19 testing guidelines
Sep 24, 2020 16:42Trump administration officials at the Department of Health and Human Services reportedly bypassed career government scientists and authored the significantly relaxed coronavirus testing guidelines that experts criticized as medically unsound and dangerous when they were first published on the CDC website in August.
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Unilateral bans on anti-pandemic efforts amount to economic, medical terrorism: Zarif
Sep 24, 2020 15:58Iran says the US’ unilateral restrictions on its efforts to comprehensively confront the scourge of the new coronavirus are nothing short of “economic and medical terrorism,” urging the country’s Asian partners to stand up to the coercive measures as they unify their resources against the common health threat.
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Iran’s COVID-19 death toll crosses 25,000
Sep 24, 2020 11:29Iran's Health Ministry said more than 25,000 people have died due to the COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak.