By John Jones | Free Tibet | 13 June 2020.
London UK: Influential Tibetan exiles have been blocked from contacting their relatives inside Tibet. Free Tibet’s research partner, Tibet Watch, has found that those using WeChat, a Chinese digital communication tool which is usually their method for contacting friends and family in Tibet, have been blocked.
“This is not a natural virus. It is an artificial virus and now many countries in the whole world – they are researching it for a vaccine,” Gadkari said.
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The Bundesliga will resume behind closed doors on 16 May, becoming the first European league to restart following the coronavirus shutdown.
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By Kathrin Ammann | Swissinfo.cn | 16 April 2020
China’s coronavirus aid for Europe has raised the question of whether the country is using the pandemic to build influence in the West. Yet many other, more direct, interventions from Beijing go virtually unnoticed, such as events in southwestern Switzerland last month.
By Tyler Pager | Bloomberg | 8 April 2020.
Joe Biden became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee Wednesday after Bernie Sanders ended his presidential run, setting up the former vice president to face President Donald Trump in November.
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care on Tuesday after receiving oxygen support for serious COVID-19 complications, leaving his foreign minister to lead the government’s response to the accelerating outbreak.
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CNBC | 27 March 2020.
The United States now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Italy and China, making it the country with the largest outbreak in the world.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
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Iran and Italy’s economies are worsening, and their people are suffering most in this Wuhan virus outbreak — all because of their leaders’ short-sighted and foolish decisions.
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BBC | 6 Feb 2020 |
President Donald Trump has been cleared in his impeachment trial, ending a congressional bid to oust him from office that bitterly divided the US.