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World parliament must focus on ways to end unjust sanctions: Qalibaf
Jul 09, 2020 14:14Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker says after overcoming the current pandemic of the deadly new coronavirus, parliaments across the world must focus on preventing adoption of such illegal politics as unjust sanctions, which hamper development of economic ties among various states.
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Coronavirus is creating a crisis of energy insecurity in the US
Jul 09, 2020 14:11As the US remains in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, a more insidious crisis is taking root as households are unable to pay their energy bills, risking serious health consequences and increasing debt, while federal and state governments fail to adequately protect vulnerable families.
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Fire-engulfed California short on firefighters as prison “slaves” under COVID-19 lockdown
Jul 09, 2020 14:09Instead of wholesale changes in energy production or consumption, or a great increase in professional firefighters, the US state of California has opted to use extremely cheap prison labor to tackle the inevitable blazes. The measure allows for the government to continue cutting public service budgets, while also acting as a check on wage and working condition demands from public unions, as the threat of being replaced by someone who is effectively a slave, increases.
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'Completely out of control': China says 'US epidemic' threat to rest of the world
Jul 09, 2020 14:06“In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US”, the Global Times wrote. "Lies are dominating US society's recognition of the epidemic," the paper added.
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Agonizing lag in coronavirus research puts pregnant women and babies at risk in the US
Jul 09, 2020 13:57In its first examination of U.S. data on COVID-19 in pregnancy, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that expectant mothers with the coronavirus had a 50% higher chance of being admitted to intensive care and a 70% higher chance of being intubated than non- pregnant women in their childbearing years.
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As COVID ravages the US, Trump’s campaign insists it’s “totally harmless”
Jul 09, 2020 13:54While US president, Donald Trump has maintained in the past that easing social distancing rules and ending stay-at-home orders were necessary for growing the economy, 63 percent of American voters actually prefer prioritizing efforts to quell the spread of COVID-19 over those economic concerns, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released earlier this month.
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Modi outlines steps to revive economy as pandemic crisis deepens
Jul 09, 2020 11:46Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recounted some steps taken by his administration so far to revive the struggling economy as the country of 1.3 billion is facing its worst financial crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Five million in new lockdown in Australia’s Melbourne as cases surge
Jul 09, 2020 09:22Five million people in Australia's second-biggest city began a new lockdown Thursday, returning to tough restrictions just weeks after they ended as Melbourne grapples with a resurgence of coronavirus cases.
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Brazil's President vetoes COVID-19 aid for indigenous people
Jul 09, 2020 06:15Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday vetoed provisions of a law that obligated the federal government to provide drinking water, disinfectants and a guarantee of hospital beds to indigenous communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UN Security Council rejects Russian-backed resolution on aid delivery to Syria
Jul 09, 2020 06:05The UN Security Council has rejected a Russian-drafted resolution that would extend a cross-border aid delivery mechanism for a six-month period after Russia — along with China — vetoed a relevant Western-drafted document, which Moscow argued ignored the realities on the ground in the West Asian country.