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COVID-19 is exposing the violence of US foreign policy as virus spreads
Apr 20, 2020 11:06The U.S. is on its knees today because the public schools are closed, so millions of children from low-income families have lost their most reliable source of daily calories. This, in turn, has caused food banks across the country to be burdened far beyond their capacities. Before COVID-19, it was “too expensive” to feed people in the US hypercapitalist system.
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Post-Corona world; a new world with an injured body (2)
Apr 20, 2020 11:01Coronavirus will eventually leave us, but the scars of coronavirus and its aftermaths will remain on the body of the world, since the world’s present power structure is not powerful enough to heal this wound and make up for its huge consequences; this structure will naturally change and a new order will emerge.
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Coronavirus pandemic shows West's failure, immorality: Syrian President
Apr 20, 2020 10:52Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the ongoing global crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed Western countries' failure and immorality.
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Caracas slams Washington for seizure of Venezuela's money in US bank
Apr 20, 2020 10:12Following instructions by President Donald Trump, the US government has ordered the transfer of some $342 million in funds from a Venezuelan Central Bank account at US-based Citibank to an account controlled by opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido.
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Islamabad, New Delhi spar over treatment of minorities, virus response
Apr 20, 2020 09:47Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan says the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is deliberately targeting Muslims in India to divert attention from its poor response to the coronavirus epidemic.
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US oil collapses to $11 as world awash with crude
Apr 20, 2020 09:23US oil prices dived to 22-year lows at just $11 Monday after crashing almost 40 percent in a market flooded with crude and slammed by evaporating demand in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
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US black woman died of coronavirus after hospital repeatedly refused to admit her
Apr 20, 2020 09:14An African American woman says her sister died of the coronavirus because a New York hospital repeatedly refused to admit her.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro joins demo against stay-at-home orders
Apr 20, 2020 03:22Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday joined hundreds of demonstrators outside army headquarters in the capital Brasilia protesting stay-at-home orders issued by state governors.
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More US protests call for lifting coronavirus restrictions as governors push back
Apr 20, 2020 03:03Protests flared in US states on Sunday over stay-at-home orders while governors disputed President Donald Trump’s claims they have enough tests for the novel coronavirus and should quickly reopen their economies.
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Oil drops to 21-year low with storage filling as demand shrivels
Apr 20, 2020 02:54Oil extended its slide, falling to the lowest in more than two decades, on concern the world is rapidly running out of places to store crude after output cuts proved insufficient to cope with plunging demand.