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COVID 19: ILO head urges global expansionary fiscal, monetary policies
Date: 2020-03-29 12:13:21 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:37 - ID:8374259
GENEVA, March 29 (MENA) - International Labour Organization Director General Guy Ryder Sunday said adopting unprecedented, expansionary fiscal and monetary policies is essential to prevent the current headlong downturn from becoming a prolonged ....
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EU Commission to revise its budget proposal in light of COVID-19 crisis
Date: 2020-03-29 07:51:46 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:16 - ID:8373849
BRUSSELS, March 29 (MENA) - The European Commission will issue a new EU budget proposal to deal with the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, the EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said as quoted by France 24 Channel. "To ....
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Infant dies of coronavirus in Illinois, a first in US
Date: 2020-03-29 06:26:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:8373777
WASHINGTON, March 29 (MENA) - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reports an infant, younger than one year in Chicago, has died after testing positive for coronavirus, Hurra Channel reported. This is the first-known infant death in ....
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China reports 5 deaths, 44 new coronavirus infections
Date: 2020-03-29 05:35:55 GMT - China - World - SN:4 - ID:8373744
BEIJING, March 29 (MENA) - China has reported 44 new coronavirus infections together with one regionally transmitted case whereas the death toll on account of COVID-19 reached 3,300 with 5 new fatalities, according to the National Health Commission. ....
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US reports 124,000 cronavirus infections
Date: 2020-03-29 05:28:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:8373741
WASHINGTON, March 29 (MENA) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a domestic travel advisory for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut on Saturday night, Sky news reported. The U.S. counted more than 124,000 cases of ....
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Italy reports 889 new coronavirus deaths over past 24 hours
Date: 2020-03-28 21:39:42 GMT - Italy - World - SN:59 - ID:8373603
ROME, March 28 (MENA) - Italy's death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic is now the highest in the world at 10,023, after 889 were reported dead since the last figures were released on Friday, CNN said Saturday. With 92,472 confirmed cases, ....
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Taliban refuses to negotiate with Afghan gov't team
Date: 2020-03-28 19:49:24 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:55 - ID:8373621
KABUL, March 28 (MENA) - Taliban has refused to negotiate with a team announced by the Afghan government for intra-Afghan talks, saying the team not gathering all factions. Taliban spokesman Zabuhullah Mujahid said Saturday the group would not ....
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Trump: Government works to vanquish coronavirus
Date: 2020-03-28 19:18:28 GMT - USA - World - SN:53 - ID:8373614
WASHINGTON, March 28 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said Saturday the government is working to "vanquish the coronavirus". "Our country is at war with an invisible enemy. We are marshaling the full power of American nation economic, scientific, ....
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Russia presents COVID-19 treatment based on anti-Malaria drug
Date: 2020-03-28 19:14:20 GMT - Russia - World - SN:52 - ID:8373597
MOSCOW, March 28 (MENA) - Russian specialists said they've come up with an effective way to treat COVID-19 using an anti-malarial drug on the basis of mefloquine, Russia Today reported Saturday. This type of medication is now widely researched ....
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Over 615,000 coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide
Date: 2020-03-28 19:11:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:51 - ID:8373484
LONDON, March 28 (MENA) - The new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread to nearly every country in the world since it first emerged in China at the beginning of the year. More than 615,000 people are known to be infected and more than 28,000 deaths ....
