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Tokyo’s Delayed Olympics: Who Pays Bills for Another Year?
With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, now comes the multi-billion-dollar question: Who pays the bills for the delay, and how large will they be?
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South Africa’s Coronavirus Cases Jump Again Above 700
South Africa’s coronavirus cases jumped again to 709, the health minister said Wednesday, as the country with the most cases in Africa prepared to go into lockdown first thing Friday.
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Of America and Sacrifice: Is the Country Ready to Step Up?
For most Americans alive today, the idea of shared national sacrifice is a collective abstraction, a memory handed down from a grandparent or passed on through a book or movie.
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Cricket Captain, Bollywood Star Send Virus Message to India
India cricket captain Virat Kohli and his Bollywood actress wife Anushka Sharma have posted a video message to their compatriots urging them to stay at home for the next three weeks in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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AP PHOTOS: Virus Accentuates Isolation of Spain’s Homeless
While Spanish authorities tell the public that staying home is the best way to beat the coronavirus pandemic, some people are staying out because home has come to mean the streets of Madrid and Barcelona.
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India’s 1.3 Billion Locked Down as US Reaches Virus Aid Deal
The world’s largest democracy went under the world’s biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India’s 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic, while in the U.S., lawmakers and the White House agreed on a massive $2 trillion domestic aid package to help those impacted by the outbreak.
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The Latest: German Lawmakers to Vote on Economic Aid Package
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 424,000 people and killed over 18,000. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or those with existing health problems. More than 108,000 people have recovered so far, mostly in China.
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Survivors of World Conflicts Offer Perspective Amid Pandemic
As Western countries reeling from the coronavirus pandemic awaken to a new reality of economic collapse, overwhelmed hospitals, grounded flights and home confinement, it’s tempting to think the end of days is at hand.
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Fore! Golfers Play On, for Now, With Precautions in Place
Washtenaw Golf Club, one of the oldest courses in Michigan, typically only has to worry about the weather in March.
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Israel to Shut Down Synagogues in Latest Step to Fight Virus
The Israeli government on Wednesday approved new sweeping restrictions over the new coronavirus pandemic, including ordering the closing of all synagogues amid increased infections in places of worship, just as Libya became the latest at-risk Mideast nation to report its first case.
