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US moves nearer to shutdown amid coronavirus fears
Mar 17, 2020 02:30Officials across the US curtailed many elements of American life to fight the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, with health officials recommending that groups of 50 or more don’t get together and a government expert saying a 14-day national shutdown may be needed.
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US higher education is woefully unprepared to help poor students amid coronavirus
Mar 16, 2020 13:04Liz Willen, a longtime education reporter & journalist says "I think the coronavirus is the external shock to the US higher-ed system that will shine the light on inequality that has previously been ignored."
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Racist attacks and border militarization intensify in US, Europe as coronavirus spreads
Mar 16, 2020 12:58The Western regimes, including the US and some European states as usual have tried to attack refugees as the coronavirus spreads all around the world. In the U.S., the media has reported extensively on anti-Asian responses, especially on social media, to the outbreak. Physical assaults have been reported against Asian American riders on the New York City subways and elsewhere.
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Government spends equivalent of entire US student debt to rally stock market for 15 minutes
Mar 16, 2020 12:53With financial markets in a state of near panic over an incoming COVID-19 pandemic, the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York took the extraordinary step of injecting over $1.5 trillion into the stock market recently in a bid to calm investors’ fears about a collapse.
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US stocks plunge more than 10% over coronavirus pandemic panic
Mar 16, 2020 12:00US stocks have plunged more than 10 percent as panic following emergency moves by the Federal Reserve to try to avert a recession due to the coronavirus pandemic that is shutting down global business and travel.
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Biden says he would mobilize the US military to deal with coronavirus
Mar 16, 2020 11:56Former US Vice President Joe Biden has said he would mobilize the military to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, adding that it is a “national emergency” that requires the United States to react on a war footing.
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First people to begin Covid-19 vaccine trial in US: Official
Mar 16, 2020 11:52The United States will begin testing a coronavirus vaccine on volunteer human subjects next week, a government official says.
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Coronavirus infections rise in West Asia
Mar 16, 2020 11:17Since raising its head in central China late last year, the new coronavirus has come to affect 157 countries and territories.
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Conditions ripe for containing coronavirus in Iran: IRGC commander
Mar 16, 2020 10:38Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami highlighted the IRGC’s efforts to combat the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, in Iran and said the conditions are ripe for the containment of the infectious disease.
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Iranian speaker condoles demise of Assembly of Experts member
Mar 16, 2020 10:14Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani offered his condolences over the demise of Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Bathaee, a member of the Assembly of Experts who passed away after contracting the new coronavirus (COVID-19).