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For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power
Selam Gebrekidan//24 views
Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them? LONDON — In Hu...
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Xinjiang Returns to Work, but Coronavirus Worries Linger in China
Austin Ramzy//34 views/2 comments
The Chinese region, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in indoctrination camps, has been an information void. Uighurs fear a lockdown in the region...
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Bogotá’s Cacophony Is Hushed by Virus as Congested Streets Empty Out
Julie Turkewitz//28 views
Colombia Dispatch In normal times, Colombia’s crowded capital reverberates with never-ending noise. But under quarantine, the city was overtaken by an extraordi...
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As Governors Plead for Tests, Trump Promises Ventilators to Europe
Eric Irwin//32 views
Maryland, Virginia and Arizona issued statewide stay-at-home orders, and the F.D.A. granted emergency approval for the use of two malaria drugs to treat some co...
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Meteorites reveal that Martian water came from different sources
Ashley Strickland//28 views
(CNN)One of the biggest mysteries in piecing together the story of Mars' past is a key question: Where did the water come from? Researchers may have found a la...
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What you need to know about coronavirus on Monday, March 30
Eliza Mackintosh//34 views/1 comments
A version of this story appeared in the March 30 edition of CNN's Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines e...
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The moral calculus of US sanctions amid coronavirus crisis
Stephen Collinson//37 views/2 comments
This analysis was excerpted from the March 30 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read pa...
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Face masks: WHO stands by recommendation to not wear them if you are not sick or not caring for someone who is sick
Jacqueline Howard//38 views
(CNN)World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone w...
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China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed.
Steven Lee Myers//49 views/1 comments
After SARS, Chinese health officials built an infectious disease reporting system to evade political meddling. But when the coronavirus emerged, so did fears of...
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Oil Prices Crash, Virus Hits, Commerce Stops: Iraq Is in Trouble.
Alissa J. Rubin//35 views
Iraq depends on oil revenues, which have plummeted. The country is so desperate it is asking for donations to help it weather the pandemic. BAGHDAD — When Iraq ...
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8 Killed After Philippine Plane Bursts Into Flames
Jason Gutierrez//34 views/1 comments
All on board, including a doctor, a nurse and foreign nationals, were killed after the plane, used in the country’s coronavirus response, caught fire as it took...
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Crisis in the Sahel Becoming France’s Forever War
Ruth Maclean, Finbarr O’Reilly//33 views/1 comments
Riding along with French troops hunting Islamist militants in France’s unwinnable West African war. French Foreign Legion soldiers from the Operation Barkhane C...
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Rich Europeans Flee Virus for 2nd Homes, Spreading Fear and Fury
Norimitsu Onishi, Constant Méheut//48 views
In France and the rest of Europe, the affluent decamp cities to spend their confinement in vacation homes, widening class divides. Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for...
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Egypt’s Female Lion Tamers Show the Men How to Do It
Declan Walsh//36 views/1 comments
Egypt Dispatch The broader struggle for women’s equality may be lagging in Egypt, but six women dominate the field of lion taming in the country. GAMASA, Egypt ...
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India’s Coronavirus Lockdown Leaves Vast Numbers Stranded and Hungry
Maria Abi-Habib, Sameer Yasir//31 views
The sudden shutdown of businesses has upended the lives of millions of migrant laborers in Indian cities. More than a dozen migrants have died, and anger is ris...