America
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Nearly 3 million jobless claims in US last week
May 14, 2020 17:22More than 2.9 million workers have applied for unemployment benefits during the last week, bringing the total applications in two months of the coronavirus impact to 36.5 million.
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Americans deprived of health coverage following rising unemployment
May 14, 2020 15:30Millions of Americans have been hit with a double blow during the coronavirus pandemic because they're out of work and without health insurance if they get sick. In this country, most working-age people depend on their job to have health insurance, meaning that they have insurance when they are working.
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Guaido planned Venezuela 'invasion' while at White House: Maduro
May 14, 2020 09:59Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday that opposition leader Juan Guaido met with a former member of the US Army special forces at the White House to plan a failed sea invasion of the Caribbean country.
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US accuses China of coronavirus research hacking
May 14, 2020 07:06US officials claim that China-linked hackers are targeting organisations researching the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Global trade to decline 27% due to coronavirus, UN says
May 14, 2020 02:34Global trade is expected to decline 27 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the previous three months, as global production falls due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the United Nations.
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Stocks slump on fears of second coronavirus wave
May 13, 2020 21:10Fears of a second coronavirus wave and downbeat comments by the head of the US Federal Reserve helped push stocks lower on Wednesday.
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Coronavirous outbreaks in Latin America
May 13, 2020 17:11Deaths doubled in Lima, rivaling the worst month of the pandemic in Paris. They tripled in Manaus, a metropolis tucked deep in Brazil’s Amazon — a surge similar to what London and Madrid endured.
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Latest Coronavirus death toll in US
May 13, 2020 07:16More than 1,408,636 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 83,425 have died, according to a New York Times database.
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US Senators plans to sanction China over coronavirus outbreak
May 13, 2020 06:08Under new introduced legislation in US Congress, President Donald Trump would be able to impose sanctions on China if Beijing fails to cooperate in providing detailed information on the events leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, nine Senators said in a statement.
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More Americans renounce US citizenship in 2020
May 13, 2020 02:11Over 2,900 Americans who live outside the US soil renounced their citizenship in the first 3 months of 2020.
