A new development in China is refueling theories that China's communist government is not being honest with the world about the coronavirus.This week, families in Wuhan — the Chinese city of about 11 million people where the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Richard EskowGeneral view of a hospital where health officers, wearing masks and special protective suits, take care of a patient infected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a hospital in Tehran, Iran on March 02, 2020. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu...
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A photograph purporting to show Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in tears, having lost all hope over the coronavirus toll in his country, made its way around cyberspace earlier this week. It turned out the photo wasn’t of Conte, but of...
Citizens of Zagreb practice social distancing under the light snow after an earthquake forced them to leave their homes in the morning of March 22, 2020. Photo by Tomislav Medak, CC-BY.
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Mukhtarli was released from prison in Azerbaijan on March 17Leyla Mustafayeva hugs her husband, the journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, during his arrival in Berlin on March 17. Photo (c): European Centre for Press and Media Freedom.
On March 17, the...
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On Wednesday, March 25, Canadian model Laurence Bédard shared a suggestive snap with her 2.8 million Instagram followers.
In the provocative photo, the Quebec native posed in front of what appears to be a marble wall. She stood with her shoulders...
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Arresting journalists is a ‘pretext’ to punish and silenceAnti-government protesters in the capital Algiers on July 6, 2019. Photo credit: Farah Souames, used with permission.
More than a year since the start of Algeria's countrywide...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): With the 21-day lockdown in force, cities and towns in India have become almost deserted, except for emergency movements. Usually busy highways across the country have become almost deathly quiet.
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To get myself through the pandemic, I’ve been summoning everything I’ve learned about surviving in a new world as an immigrant. I left the Philippines as a kid to join my parents in California....
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Mullah Krekar had previously made death threats against now-Prime Minister Erna Solberg and has been classified as a “threat to national security”, earning him a place in the UN list of terrorists.
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A great reverse migration is underway in India.On March 24, prime minister Narendra Modi urged all Indians to stay at home for three weeks to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The short, four-hour notice for the shutdown,...
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David Axe
Security,
Delfin’s small size belies its destructive potential.
Key point: Havana doesn’t have the option of leveraging numbers in order to create major obstacles to U.S. Navy deployments.
Cuba has exactly one submarine. And we...
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For days now, people have been yelling at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for their absolutely ridiculous photo-op at an emergency call center in the middle of a global pandemic. While William and Kate didn’t shake hands with anyone, they...
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The war-torn, sanctions-hit nation registered its first new coronavirus case on March 22, with the UN warning that the country’s overstretched health care sector may not be prepared to deal with a major outbreak.
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Photos of Robert Levinson were published in 2013 after five years in captivity in Iran.
Robert Levinson, a private investigator, disappeared in 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish. The Iranian government has repeatedly denied knowing anything about...
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Claudia LefkoClaudia Lefko and Faiza Al-Araji, Amman Jordan 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of authors)
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Lawrence WittnerGreat military and economic power does not guarantee a country’s happiness. (Photo: U.S. Army/flickr/cc)
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When China placed a series of cities under lockdown in January to blunt the spread of COVID-19, experts warned that other countries may not be able to implement the same policies. But...
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Anita Herbert took to her Instagram page on Tuesday, March 24, to post a new update that showed off her muscular body in underwear as she addressed an important question she often gets from clients.
The photo showed Herbert in an apartment as she...
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Damage in Zagreb after the March 22, 2020 earthquake. Photo by Government of Republic of Croatia, used with permission.
A series of tremors hit the Croatian capital Zagreb on early Sunday morning on March 22, leaving at least 27 people injured, one...
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