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- 8 European spacecraft put in hibernation amid virus lockdown
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 04:10 PMThe European Space Agency said Tuesday that it is putting eight of its spacecraft into hibernation as it scales down operations during the coronavirus outbreak.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nature reserve activist shot to death in central Mexico
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 05:50 PMUnidentified gunmen shot to death a lawyer and activist who defended a rural tract against development near the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Tuesday.
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Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 04:25 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 50 Nigerian soldiers killed in deadly Boko Haram ambush
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 12:40 PMBoko Haram extremists killed at least 50 Nigerian soldiers in an ambush near Goneri village in northern Yobe state, according to military officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UN chief urges G20 to adopt `war-time' plan with trillions
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 02:20 PMU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged leaders of the world's 20 major industrialized nations on Tuesday to adopt a "wartime" plan including a stimulus package "in the trillions of dollars" for businesses, workers and households in developing countries trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Worried Ethiopians want partial internet shutdown ended
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 07:20 AMRights groups and citizens are calling on Ethiopia's government to lift the internet shutdown in parts of the country that is leaving millions of people without important updates on the coronavirus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Too close for comfort: Belgian hairdressers seek shutdown
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 08:30 AMWhen the Belgian government announced last week that hairdressers would still be able to operate during the coronavirus epidemics, many in the profession were dumbfounded and furious.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China to lift lockdown in most of virus-hit Hubei province
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 02:30 AMChinese authorities announced Tuesday they would end a two-month lockdown of most of virus-hit Hubei province at midnight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Valeria Luiselli's 'Lost Children Archive' wins Folio Prize
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 04:25 PMMexican writer Valeria Luiselli's novel "Lost Children Archive" won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK government under pressure to toughen virus restrictions
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 01:10 PMThe British government warned Monday that it may introduce more draconian measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus if people persist in ignoring social distancing recommendations and crowding public places.
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- Mexico requests extradition of former oil company chief
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 05:35 PMMexico's government has formally requested the extradition of the former head of the state-owned oil company from Spain, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review likely postponed
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 06:00 PMA major U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, is "likely to be postponed" because of the coronavirus pandemic, a U.N.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Polish court convicts 3 men in western Ukraine arson attack
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 11:45 AMA court in southern Poland has convicted three Polish men of terrorism charges related to the torching of a Hungarian center in Ukraine in early 2018.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EU greenlights membership talks for Albania and N. Macedonia
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 01:30 PMEuropean affairs ministers agreed Tuesday to allow Albania and North Macedonia to begin European Union membership talks, paving the way for the bloc's leaders to sign off on the move that could end years of setbacks and disappointment for the two Balkan nations..
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Philippine Congress approves national emergency declaration
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 06:55 AMThe Philippine Congress on Tuesday approved a bill declaring a national emergency and authorizing the president to launch a massive aid program for 18 million families and tap private hospitals and ships in fighting the coronavirus outbreak.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Authorities in Mozambique find 64 migrants dead in truck
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 08:00 AMMore than 60 undocumented migrants believed to be Ethiopians have been found dead in a cargo truck in Mozambique's northwestern Tete province.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mexico's busy streetscape slows, but doesn't stop for virus
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 11:00 PMIncreasingly empty beaches and quieter streets in Mexico contrast with a still-crowded subway system and active street vendors, as shut-downs and social distancing measures have begun but remain very uneven.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Thailand decrees state of emergency to control coronavirus
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 03:30 AMThailand's prime minister says his government has agreed to declare a state of emergency to implement stricter measures to control the coronavirus outbreak.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-top Scottish official acquitted of attempted rape, other charges
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 07:29 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Attacks in Libya kill 5 despite calls for pause in fighting
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 01:25 PMAt least five civilians were killed, including two members of the same family, by heavy shelling in Libya's capital of Tripoli on Monday, officials in the U.N.-backed government said, despite increased international pressure to halt fighting over coronavirus concerns.
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- Myanmar officially brands Rakhine rebels a terrorist group
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 02:54 PMMyanmar has officially designated an armed ethnic rebel group known as the Arakan Army a terrorist organization.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vatican employees balk at lack of full shutdown amid virus
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 02:56 PMThe Vatican is under pressure to let more employees work from home as its offices remain open two weeks after the Italian government ordered Italians home and shut down all non-essential businesses in an urgent attempt to contain the coronavirus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nearly a million children left behind in Venezuela as parents migrate
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 05:49 PMParents migrating to find work means kids fending for themselves.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Germany: 8 men convicted of plotting far-right uprising
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 01:45 PMA court in eastern Germany has convicted eight far-right extremists who were accused of planning to violently overthrow the state.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - India's prime minister decrees 21-day lockdown to curb virus
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 12:55 PMIndia will begin the world's largest lockdown on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address, warning citizens to stay inside or risk inviting the pandemic into their homes, and pledging $2 billion to bolster the country's beleaguered health care system.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bangladesh says it will release jailed former prime minister
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 08:35 AMBangladesh's government will release imprisoned former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for six months on the condition that she stays at home and does not leave the country, the law minister said Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Albert Uderzo, a creator of French hero Asterix, dies at 92
Tuesday - 03/24/2020 - 08:35 AMAlbert Uderzo, one of the two creators of the beloved comic book character Asterix, who captured the spirit of the Gauls of yore and grew a reputation worldwide, died on Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US slashes aid to Afghanistan after Pompeo visit to Kabul
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 11:01 PMThe Trump administration is slashing $1 billion in assistance to Afghanistan and threatening further reductions in all forms of cooperation after the country's rival leaders failed to agree on forming a new government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mexico border referendum cancels massive Corona brewery
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 06:10 PMThe company that brews Corona beer took another blow on Monday when the federal government said it would not allow a massive, partly-built $1.5 billion brewery on the border after residents rejected it in a referendum.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Italy records smaller increase in virus cases for 2nd day
Monday - 03/23/2020 - 03:35 PMItaly has recorded a smaller day-to-day increase in new coronavirus cases for the second straight day, officials said while cautioning it was too soon to know if the worst is behind the country with the world's second-biggest caseload.
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