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Coronavirus has made every day a struggle to survive amid the squalor of Cox’s Bazar | Farid Alam
When I was born in Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh, it was a very different place. I remember as a child laughing and flying kites with my friends. Kites are not flying…
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China’s ‘American Factory’ laid off more than 2,000 jobs worldwide in first half of 2020 due to weak car market
China’s largest car glassmaker, which featured in the award-winning documentary American Factory, laid off more than 2,000 people globally in the first half of the year due to weak demand…
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Has England learned any lessons from the first wave of coronavirus? | Philip Ball
No one knows what the next months hold, but suggestions that Britain will be back to normal by Christmas seem unlikely. Already, Leicester, Greater Manchester and Preston have enforced local…
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US dollar weakness won’t last. Signs show a turnaround is due
US dollar bears have had a good run of late. The greenback has been on a downward trajectory against major currencies since March, as evidenced in the decline in the…
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Coronavirus: South Korea shuts schools, braces for health care workers’ strike
South Korea on Tuesday ordered schools and kindergartens in Seoul to resume online classes as authorities struggle to contain several coronavirus clusters.There were 280 new infections confirmed on Tuesday, taking…
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Dutch and Belgian patients get coronavirus second time after Hong Kong reports world’s first reinfection case
A patient in the Netherlands and another in Belgium have been confirmed as having been reinfected with the coronavirus, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday, citing virologists.The news follows…
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‘No God’: with apocalyptic rhetoric, Republicans stoke fear if Trump loses
Republicans kicked off their national convention on Monday by trying to radically recast US President Donald Trump’s failures in containing the coronavirus pandemic as triumphs and by painting an apocalyptic…
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Is this the end of the road for dollar dominance?
The recent sharp depreciation of the US dollar has led to concerns that it may lose its role as the main global reserve currency. After all, in addition to the…
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Indonesia coronavirus: Isis affiliates wooing new recruits unhappy with pandemic policies, experts say
Indonesian affiliates of Islamic State (Isis) are actively recruiting people during Covid-19 movement restrictions as they look to propagate a caliphate in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, according to…
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam urges opposition to get behind Covid-19 tests, which she says can help kick start city’s economy
Hong Kong’s leader has urged medical experts and opposition activists to stop playing politics with the Covid-19 testing programme, and said the scheme could put the city’s economy back on…