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Norway suspends virus-tracing app due to privacy concerns
Norway’s health authorities said they suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of coronavirus after the country’s data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy. Launched…
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Covid-19 pandemic is ‘fire drill’ for effects of climate crisis, says UN official
The coronavirus pandemic is “just a fire drill” for what is likely to follow from the climate crisis, and the protests over racial injustice around the world show the need…
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Stocks fall on new Covid-19 outbreak fears, as shops in England reopen – as it happened
Non-essential retailers in England were allowed to open their doors to customers for the first time in 12 weeks today EasyJet also made its first scheduled flight since late March.…
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Brexit plus the coronavirus pandemic could prove too much for Britain
It is no exaggeration to say the United Kingdom is in deep trouble, lurching from one catastrophe to another. As soon as the economy gets over the coronavirus crisis, Britain…
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Fear of coronavirus, not lockdown, is the biggest threat to the UK’s economy | Simon Wren-Lewis
In April, UK GDP was 25% below its level in February. While such a rapid fall in output is unprecedented, so are the reasons for it. Unfortunately many Conservative MPs…
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Tulsa newspaper and top health official call on Trump to cancel rally
The Tulsa World newspaper has backed the city’s top public health official in asking Donald Trump not to stage a controversial rally there on Saturday. Republicans insist Trump Tulsa rally…
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‘A bit of normality’: Birmingham shoppers return to high street stores
Birmingham shoppers returned to the high street with many in the rest of England on Monday, as queues formed at “non-essential” retail names such as Zara, H&M, Sports Direct and…
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China’s coronavirus recovery plan falls back on old playbook of debt and construction
Analysts revised up China’s economic growth outlook for 2020, after new data suggested the government was turning to its old playbook to try and steer the economy out of the…
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MPs fear rise in Islamophobia as mosques in England reopen
MPs are braced for a rise in Islamophobia as mosques start to reopen across England, after a rise in racism and conspiracy theories about Muslims and coronavirus. Afzal Khan, the…
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Coronavirus: Singapore to reopen shops, parks and pools from Friday
Singapore will allow social gatherings of up to five people and eating out at restaurants from Friday, as the city state moves into the second phase of its economic reopening…