Covid-19 Updates: Chinese Delegation Approves Italy's Measures
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Update: 9: 30 | MOROCCO: meetings with more than 50 people are prohibited. | The Interior Ministry announced that all public agglomerations with more than 50 people are prohibited to prevent the Covid-19 spread. | Air and sea traffic with Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, China, and Algeria was also suspended. | So far, Morocco has 17 Covid-19 confirmed cases, including five Moroccans who entered the country from Spain. | As of March 16, face-to-face classes will be suspended at all educational levels. | Update: 8: 30 | SPAIN: The government restricts the movement of people.
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The response of the ruling elite to the coronavirus pandemic: Malign neglect
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
Governments around the world are making a deliberate decision to minimize their response to the pandemic, threatening the lives of millions of people.
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Qatar overcomes Gulf crisis despite 1,000-day blockade
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Doha continues to flourish and overcome economic difficulties despite a blockade that has been underway for more than 1,000 days."At the end of February 2020, the unfair besiege completed 1,000 days, it was an era of failure, confusion, and moral downfall for the countries of the blockade," Qatar's Ambassador to Turkey, Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi told Anadolu Agency. "But for Qatar, it was 1,000 days of pride and steadfastness."In mid-2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt all abruptly severed ties with Doha, accusing it of supporting terrorist groups.Qatar, for its part, has vociferousl…
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Rwanda confirms first case of coronavirus: health ministry
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Rwanda has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the East African nation from Mumbai on March 8, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.He had no symptoms on arrival but presented himself to a health facility on March 13, the ministry said. Rwanda is the 19th African nation to report the presence of coronavirus.
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Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso have been released: UN
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
A Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in neighbouring Mali and appear to be in good health, a mission spokesman said on Saturday.Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto went missing while travelling through Burkina Faso, a country where jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State are active.U.N. mission spokesman Olivier Salgado told Reuters that Blais and Tacchetto were received by peacekeepers on Friday evening and would be handed over to Malian authorities later on Saturday.It is not known who was r…
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Krugman Disses Sanders and Embraces Biden While Distorting the Obama Record
Rick Baum | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Paul Krugman, a past winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, wrote a recent New York Times column with the title "Bernie Sanders is Going for Broke." He criticizes Sanders for his politics which are characterized as a "go-for-broke maximalism" "without compromise" described as:…
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Many Mozambicans still struggling to get back on their feet, one year after cyclone
news.un.org | 2020-03-13
Many of the people who lost everything when Cyclone Idai swept through central Mozambique a year ago, continue to face devastating hardship, the UN food relief agency said on Friday.
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Gaza: Murdering Children for Sport
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Ayman Mohyeldin was an Egyptian reporter for al-Jazeera English who had covered dozens of major events in the Middle East for many American and other networks. His reputation was enormous, and his reporting on the Israeli assault on Gaza was …
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China Steadily Continues to Promote Influence on the African Continent
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Every day the news about Chinese investments in the Africa are highlighted in newspapers around the world. On the one hand, western critics believe that Beijing is seeking to expand its area of influence outside Asian territory, and on the …
globalresearch.ca/china-steadily-continues-promote-influence-african-continent/5706141

China Steadily Continues to Promote Influence on the African Continent
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Every day the news about Chinese investments in the Africa are highlighted in newspapers around the world. On the one hand, western critics believe that Beijing is seeking to expand its area of influence outside Asian territory, and on the …
globalresearch.ca/china-steadily-continues-promote-influence-african-continent/5706141

The Government Has a Secret Plan to Track Everyone's Faces at Airports. We're Suing
Ashley Gorski | aclu.org | 2020-03-12
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration are putting us on an extraordinarily dangerous path toward the normalization of face surveillance. But because key facts about this surveillance are still secret, the public lacks the information it needs to hold these agencies to account. We're suing to bring some much-needed transparency., , Over the past few years, CBP and the TSA have dramatically expanded their use of facial recognition technology at the airport and other U.S. ports of entr…
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More support key for counter-terrorism in Africa, where 'misogyny is at the heart of so many' groups
news.un.org | 2020-03-11
The UN Security Council on Wednesday called for greater international support to African countries in their continued fight against terrorism and violent extremism, particularly in parts of the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin region and the Horn of Africa.
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The Odyssey of US Iranian Relations: From Solidarity to Imperialism
Manouchehr Hosseinzadeh | iranian.com | 2020-03-11
So wide and deep is the gap between the United States and Iran (at every level) that any prospect of normalization of ties, governmental or non-governmental seems dim at the best. One can mostly credit this to President Donald Trump and his dark antagonizing rhetoric and reckless policies, but there are also deeper scars that …
iranian.com/2020/03/10/the-odyssey-of-us-iranian-relations-from-solidarity-to-imperialism/

Burundi election countdown amid 'deteriorating' human rights situation
news.un.org | 2020-03-10
Two months ahead of Burundi's planned local and presidential elections, senior UN-appointed independent rights investigators have urged the Government to reopen the "democratic, civil and political space" there.
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Join the Palm Sunday rallies for refugees on April 5
Duncan Roden | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-06
Refugees & migrants Kerry SmithIssue 1257 AustraliaMarch 6, 2020There are still 400 refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. With the US deal close to exhausted, those remaining have few hopes of resettlement. After almost seven years their situation is increasingly desperate. | Those in PNG have been moved into…
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