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Italy unveils extraordinary economic package amid coronavirus epidemic
Mar 29, 2020 04:06On Saturday evening, Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced a 4.3-billion-euro package of measures to help the poorest sections of the population cope with the financial impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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North Korea launches 2 unidentified projectiles: South
Mar 29, 2020 03:55North Korea has fired two “short-range projectiles” into the ocean off its east coast, South Korea says, calling the launches “very inappropriate” amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Trump says will not impose quarantine on COVID-19-hit New York
Mar 29, 2020 03:50US President Donald Trump has said that he will not impose a quarantine on the hard-hit New York area to limit the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Coronavirus outbreak is stretching New York's ambulance service to breaking point
Mar 29, 2020 03:44The coronavirus outbreak sweeping through New York City has pushed its ambulance service close to the breaking point, with hundreds of personnel out ill and emergency calls skyrocketing, supervisors and rank-and-file emergency medical technicians said on Friday.
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Iran says developing stem-cell therapy for coronavirus
Mar 29, 2020 02:50The spokesman for Iran’s Health Ministry said the country is developing a treatment method that could help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, with the help of stem cells.
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Hezbollah chief calls for end to Saudi aggression on Yemen
Mar 29, 2020 01:58Secretary-General of Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the international community must stop turning a blind eye on Saudi crimes in Yemen and put pressure on the regime to end its aggression against the impoverished Arab country.
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IRGC present to defend Iranian nation in all conditions: Commander
Mar 29, 2020 01:51Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said it is the IRGC’s duty to be at the forefront of defending the Iranian nation in all circumstances and against anything that seeks to harm the nations.
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Iran pays another $32 mln to fund fight against coronavirus
Mar 29, 2020 01:42The Iranian government has provided another $32 million in emergency funding to the health sector amid a nationwide effort to contain the new coronavirus.
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Iranian scientists looking at stem cell technology to treat COVID-19: Report
Mar 29, 2020 01:34An Iranian stem cell scientist has rejected reports that the drug to treat COVID-19 is produced in the country, clarifying his team of experts are working on experimental therapeutic stem cell methods to treat the patients.
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‘US continues to block Iranian assets needed to buy medical equipment to fight COVID-19’
Mar 29, 2020 01:19Iran rejects reports that the United States has agreed to grant sanctions waivers to certain countries in order to open up the way for the Islamic Republic to access frozen assets and buy medical supplies and equipment needed to fight the pandemic of the new coronavirus.