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Bernie Sanders endorsed his former campaign rival Joe Biden to become president last night

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Bernie Sanders endorsed his former campaign rival Joe Biden to become president last night, urging all Americans to unite behind his campaign to defeat Donald Trump in November. Mr Sanders, the standard-bearer of the American left, announced the end of his campaign to be the Democratic Party’s nominee last week, clearing the way for Mr Biden to secure the nomination at the party’s national convention in Wisconsin in August. So-called ‘crown fires’ – when flames spread at great speed from treetop to treetop – are advancing through the uninhabited ‘dead zone’ around the plant, it is believed. The Ukrainian government … Continue reading Bernie Sanders endorsed his former campaign rival Joe Biden to become president last night

A man called ‘Wuhan’ has named his son after one of the districts where covid-19 is believed to have started

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A man called ‘Wuhan’ has named his son after one of the districts where covid-19 is believed to have started. Wu Hanshi – which translates as Wuhan City – lives in the city of Linyi in east China’s Shandong Province. The mobilisation follows intelligence reports and satellite imagery showing refugee groups being moved from remote inland areas to Turkey’s western shores — regions traditionally used by traffickers to smuggle people to remote Greek islands kilometres away. “We have noticed some suspicious movements,” a senior Greek government official said. “As a result we have ordered a heightened alert for the next … Continue reading A man called ‘Wuhan’ has named his son after one of the districts where covid-19 is believed to have started

The coronavirus death toll in Spain has risen by 619 overnight to 16,972

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The coronavirus death toll in Spain has risen by 619 overnight to 16,972, the health ministry has said. The number of deaths rose from 16,353 recorded the previous day, breaking a three-day streak of daily declines. The pope’s Easter “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world message) delivered from an empty St. Peter’s Basilica instead of to the usual crowd of tens of thousands in the square outside, was by far his most pressing and political since his election in 2013. Saying the message of this year’s “Easter of solitude” should be a “contagion of hope,” he heaped … Continue reading The coronavirus death toll in Spain has risen by 619 overnight to 16,972

The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled major retailers and small shops worldwide

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The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled major retailers and small shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. In Chicago, one of the most violent places in the US, drug arrests in the weeks since the city shut down are down by 42% compared with the same period last year. “They cannot stop coronavirus coming, it’s got everywhere,” he tells the Independent, from inside the camp. “If one person with coronavirus comes into the camp – I promise that all of the people in the camp will get it. Every person that’s older than 50 is going … Continue reading The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled major retailers and small shops worldwide

Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination

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Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday but pledged to continue to try to move the party to the left. The democratic socialist insisted that he was “winning the ideological battle” but acknowledged that clinching the nomination was now “virtually impossible”. His decision clears the path for Joe Biden, 77, to take on President Trump in November. Ardern said the country was already ‘turning a corner’ just six weeks after the epidemic reached New Zealand, which has only 992 confirmed cases and one death so far.  Lockdown measures could be softened in just over … Continue reading Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination

A young mum has issued a coronavirus warning

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A young mum has issued a coronavirus warning after going on a date that turned into a fight for her life. Amie Morris started experiencing a sore throat, fever and lost her sense of taste and smell just one day after the date. The Democratic chairman of the House armed services committee had called for Mr Modly to resign or be sacked and President Trump said he would intervene because Captain Crozier had had such an impressive career. The president said: “I don’t want to destroy somebody for having a bad day.” Mr Modly’s speech to the remaining crew of … Continue reading A young mum has issued a coronavirus warning

China has reported no new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours

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China has reported no new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, the first time since January, as the death toll from the disease reached 75,000 people worldwide. Meanwhile, more than 160 current and former global leaders are urging the world’s 20 major industrialised nations to approve $8bn (£6.5bn) in emergency global health funding to hasten the search for a vaccine, cure and treatment for Covid-19 and prevent a second wave of the pandemic. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said studies have shown many people carrying coronavirus lack symptoms and can unknowingly transmit the virus to others. … Continue reading China has reported no new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours

The Trump administration is determined to withdraw from a 28-year-old treaty

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The Trump administration is determined to withdraw from a 28-year-old treaty intended to reduce the risk of an accidental war between the west and Russia by allowing reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, which has put off a full national security council (NSC) meeting on the Open Skies Treaty (OST), the secretary of defence, Mark Esper, and secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, have agreed to proceed with a US exit, according to two sources familiar with administration planning. The monarch’s intervention came after the health secretary criticised members of the public for flocking to parks to … Continue reading The Trump administration is determined to withdraw from a 28-year-old treaty

A woman has died from coronavirus hours after giving birth to her daughter in Ukraine

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A woman has died from coronavirus hours after giving birth to her daughter in Ukraine. The 36-year-old mother, identified only as Galina, is said to have been infected with the virus at a perinatal centre in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, in western Ukraine. “For the past week, none of these people who usually help me have come in sight,” she said, her voice cracking with sadness. “They are all at home because of the lockdown; they don’t have any job and so they cannot help me any more.” When prime minister Narendra Modi announced almost two weeks ago that India’s … Continue reading A woman has died from coronavirus hours after giving birth to her daughter in Ukraine

Hungary is turning into the EU’s first fully fledged autocracy

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Hungary is turning into the EU’s first fully fledged autocracy, critics have warned, after its prime minister assumed the indefinite power to rule by decree and protests grew against a nationalist curriculum imposed upon schools. The emergency powers presaged an assault on the free press, analysts said, and the state takeover of retailers and energy and healthcare companies, some 140 of which are already being monitored by military “task forces”. Both had been working in Messina, Sicily, but were drafted in to help out with the coronavirus outbreak. Lorena will be awarded her medical degree posthumously as a tribute, Messina … Continue reading Hungary is turning into the EU’s first fully fledged autocracy