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‘They’ve been missed’: Cornwall welcomes first tourists of summer
Mike Croker, a retired police officer born and bred on Cornwall’s rugged Atlantic coast, had donned his Cornish tartan tie to greet the first tourists of the summer. “It’s good…
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China’s Xi pledges to help Ghana fight Covid-19, as cases rebound in West African nation
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Ghanaian counterpart Nana Akufo-Addo have pledged to join hands to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, as the West African leader heads into two weeks of…
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Chinese family stranded in Seychelles by coronavirus finally home
A Chinese family that was stranded in the Seychelles for five months because of the coronavirus pandemic is finally back home.Rex Yang Zhouhu and his mother, sister and three-year-old nephew…
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From Philippines to India, women are leading the coronavirus fight – and still losing out
It was wheat harvest season in India, when Adhikar Sakhi Pushpa first heard of the new coronavirus. She started alerting the people in her village, sewing masks and laying down…
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Coronavirus: more than 200 scientists accuse WHO of ignoring aerosol transmission risk
Six months into a pandemic that has killed more than half a million people, more than 200 scientists from around the world are challenging the official view of how the…
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Independence Day: Trump on July 4 attacks ‘radical left’, rails at China’s ‘secrecy deceptions’
US President Donald Trump marked Independence Day by promising to defeat the “radical left” and boasting of his handling of the coronavirus, even as cases spike in the US.Washington’s mayor…
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Philippines’ OFW crisis: more than 700,000 could lose their jobs due to the coronavirus by year end
Teodoro Santos* has been waiting for two months in Doha for the flight that will take him and his family home.They all have plane tickets but “the Philippine government has…
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SOTY 2019: Linguist candidates talk about what English, Cantonese and Mandarin mean to them
To most Student of the Year (SOTY) linguists, languages spread ideas and bring people together, and that’s what makes them priceless. Recently, a total of 24 shortlisted students in the…
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Coronavirus cases spike in Florida as state sets daily record
Florida’s confirmed coronavirus cases rose by a record 11,458 on Saturday, the state’s health department said, the second time in three days that its caseload increased by more than 10,000.In…
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Spanish region locks down 200,000 over fresh coronavirus outbreak
Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region on Saturday locked down an area with around 200,000 residents following a surge in cases of the new coronavirus.Catalonia’s regional president Quim Torra told reporters there…