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April 2, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic reached a harrowing milestone on Thursday as infections surpassed 1 million and deaths exceeded 52,000, prompting governments to put half the world in lockdown amid economic collapse.
April 1, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic that has caused 47,000 deaths worldwide as of Wednesday represents what officials call humanity’s worst crisis since World War II, upending countless lives and efforts such as the global climate talks.
March 28, 2020
Human rights experts warily eyeing the first cases of coronavirus in Syria renewed their long-ignored calls for an end to the war on Saturday, this time in the name of taking urgent health measures to avert further catastrophe.
March 26, 2020
At a virtual gathering, leaders of the G-20 major economies promised to spend more than $5 trillion on Thursday in an effort to prop up the global economy and hasten people’s recovery from the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
March 25, 2020
The United Nations appealed to governments and private donors on Wednesday to provide $2 billion for a global plan for meeting emergency health needs in the world’s poorest countries coping with the global COVID-19 pandemic.
March 24, 2020
In an unprecedented move, the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo will be postponed until 2021 due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee and Japan announced on Tuesday.
March 15, 2020
Almost 5 million children in Syria have known nothing but war while another 1 million were born as refugees into a harsh life, UNICEF reported on Sunday to mark the atrocious conflict since early 2011 starting its 10 year.
March 13, 2020
The World Health Organization and two international foundations launched a first-of-its-kind fund on Friday to help nations with vulnerable populations and weak health systems cope with the global coronavirus pandemic.
March 11, 2020
World Trade Organization figures on Wednesday showed that global services trade growth was slowing at the end of 2019 and into 2020, as countries began taking steps to slow the spread of the global coronavirus outbreak.
March 11, 2020
The World Health Organization took the drastic step on Wednesday of declaring COVID-19 as a global pandemic — the worldwide spread of a new disease — marking the first time a coronavirus has gained that distinction.
