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Coronavirus racism: Go back to China, attacker said, as he punched indigenous Vancouver woman who sneezed
Dakota Holmes says she was walking her dog, Kato, through Gray’s Park on Vancouver’s Eastside at about 8.30pm on Friday evening when she sneezed.She said she had just passed a…
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Why Donald Trump’s about-turn on the US dollar is right on the money
“It’s a great time to have a strong [US] dollar,” President Donald Trump told Fox Business News last week. Yet, last August, Trump was tweeting that he was not thrilled…
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US coronavirus lawsuits pick at the scabs of China’s ‘century of humiliation’
In April, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against China for alleged acts of irresponsibility over the Covid-19 pandemic. He charged that Chinese officials “are responsible for the…
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Medical journal The Lancet says Donald Trump’s letter to World Health Organisation is ‘factually incorrect’ in key claim
World-leading medical journal The Lancet challenged a key claim in US President Donald Trump’s four-page diatribe against the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying the US leader cited academic research that…
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Coronavirus latest: Brazil hits daily death record; Trump boasts US testing ‘badge of honour’
US President Donald Trump called the country’s 1.5 million cases a “badge of honour” for US testing efforts as a new forecast showed that coronavirus-related deaths among Americans was projected…
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How close has the coronavirus pandemic brought China and the US to military conflict?
US President Donald Trump seems to be promoting war with China, but what kind of war does he want? A cold war, a perpetual trade war, a war of words…
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Coronavirus US live: Trump claims to take hydroxychloroquine and threatens to withdraw US from WHO
Fifteen Republican state attorneys general have filed a legal brief telling a federal judge they support the Trump administration’s attempt to drop the case against the former national security adviser.…
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Coronavirus live news: Barcelona beaches to reopen for sunbathers
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus across Africa has passed 86,000, the regional office of the World Health Organization has said. Unlike in Europe, a widespread outbreak seems yet…
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UK vacancies halve and pay falls as Covid-19 lockdown hits economy – business live
Over in Washington, US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has predicted that America’s economy will recover in the second half of 2020. But in testimony to the Senate, Mnuchin also predicts…