Foreign Affairs

March 31, 2020
Un-baaaaa-lievable: Goats invade locked-down Welsh town

Un-baaaaa-lievable: This wild bunch is completely ignoring rules on social distancing. With humans sheltering indoors to escape the new coronavirus, mountain goats are taking advantage of the peace and space...

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March 31, 2020
U.S. lays out plan to form transition government in Venezuela without Maduro or Guaidó

The United States laid out Tuesday a proposal to form a transitional government in Venezuela in which neither Nicolás Maduro nor Juan Guaidó would be present, and that details the...

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March 31, 2020
Puerto Rico coronavirus cases hit 239, leave 8 dead, as pace of outbreak accelerates

For the third straight day, the pace of Puerto Rico's infection rate from the coronavirus continued to accelerate, casting shadows over the healthcare systems' ability to manage a potential spike...

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March 31, 2020
Royal no more: Harry and Meghan start uncertain new chapter

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan officially make the transition Tuesday from senior members of Britain's royal family to — well, it's unclear. International celebrities, charity patrons, global influencers? The...

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March 31, 2020
After dragging feet, Mexico enters a new stage in virus fight

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he'll announce new measures to contain the spreading coronavirus after declaring a national health emergency, in a sign he is taking firmer action...

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March 31, 2020
‘Coronavirus coup’? As outbreak grows, authoritarians around the world seize the moment

To battle a spreading pandemic, democracies across the globe are turning to tools like emergency proclamations, abrupt lockdowns and enhanced public surveillance. But so are the world's autocrats – and...

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March 31, 2020
UK scrambles to catch up in the race to test for coronavirus

In the global struggle with the coronavirus pandemic, the U.K. is fighting in the dark. Top officials now accept the country has not done enough to test the population and...

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March 31, 2020
France records its highest daily coronavirus death toll

France recorded its highest daily death toll since the beginning of the novel coronavirus outbreak, health director Jerome Salomon said on Tuesday evening in Paris. Salomon said that in 24...

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March 31, 2020
Bad luck? Lost job? Coronavirus outbreak? Hong Kong’s ‘villain-hitters’ beat all fears away

Slap, slap, slap. The sound echoed off a highway bridge overhead, cutting through the beeping and ringing of car horns and crosswalk bells. Under the bridge, a wrinkled woman in...

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March 31, 2020
Spain struggles to contain virus with deadliest day of outbreak

Spain reported its deadliest day since the coronavirus crisis started, leaving hospitals overflowing with sick patients and the government struggling to bring the spread of the disease under control. The...

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March 31, 2020
Europe’s hospitals among the best but can’t handle pandemic

As increasing numbers of European hospitals buckle under the strain of tens of thousands of coronavirus patients, the crisis has exposed a surprising paradox: Some of the world's best health...

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March 31, 2020
Crammed in filthy cells, political prisoners fear infection

Reza Khandan got the word from friends locked away in Iran's most feared prison, Evin. A prisoner and a guard in their cell block had been removed because they were...

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March 31, 2020
Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine

Like every Sunday, Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia took the stage of his Pentecostal temple in a middle-class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. But this week, he wore a T-shirt instead of...

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March 31, 2020
South Korea shoe cobbler donates for needy amid coronavirus

Kim Byung-rok survived tuberculosis when he was 23, but was left with one good lung. In his work polishing and mending shoes, he inhaled too much dirt. So when he...

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March 31, 2020
Italian flags lowered as death toll surpasses 11,000

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered that all flags at public locations be lowered to half-mast on March 31, to mourn the thousands of lives lost to COVID-19. The gesture...

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March 31, 2020
Tenor Placido Domingo feels ‘fine’ after coronavirus

Tenor Placido Domingo said Monday he is resting at home after catching the new coronavirus. Domingo said in a statement that he is "at home and I feel fine." The...

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March 30, 2020
Countries crack down on basic rights amid virus pandemic

Soldiers patrol the streets with their fingers on machine gun triggers. The army guards an exhibition center-turned-makeshift-hospital crowded with rows of bunks for those infected with the coronavirus. And Serbia's...

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March 30, 2020
Cuban exile who played a key role in the business development of Miami dies at 91

Prominent Cuban-American banker and civic leader Carlos J. Arboleya died on Sunday at his home in Miami, a city he helped develop as a bank executive, offering loans and financial...

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March 30, 2020
Cuban exile who played a key role in the business development of Miami dies at 91

Prominent Cuban-American banker and civic leader Carlos J. Arboleya died on Sunday at his home in Miami, a city he helped develop as a bank executive, offering loans and financial...

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March 30, 2020
Haiti is making face masks, medical garments to fight the coronavirus and save jobs

In a bid to try to keep its textile industry afloat amid the coronavirus economic shutdown, the Haitian government has authorized the reopening of seven factories that will be making...

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March 30, 2020
Maduro should take U.S. offer to negotiate his exit from Venezuela, Trump official says

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, recently accused of drug trafficking by the United States, should learn from history and accept an offer by the Trump administration to negotiate his exit, a...

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March 30, 2020
Moscow goes into lockdown, rest of Russia braces for same

The Russian capital, Moscow, on Monday woke up to a lockdown obliging most of its 13 million residents to stay home, and many other regions of the vast country quickly...

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March 30, 2020
Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world's most unequal region, where many of Latin America's first cases arrived with members...

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March 30, 2020
Puerto Rico sees largest one-day increase in coronavirus cases as death toll hits 6

Puerto Rico saw its largest single-day increase in new COVD-19 cases, a sign that testing is ramping up but also that the virus is spreading amid some of the most...

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March 30, 2020
Police investigate break-in at Dutch art museum

Police are investigating a break-in at a Dutch art museum that is currently closed because of restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, the museum and police said...

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March 30, 2020
In Zimbabwe, ‘you win coronavirus or you win starvation’

“We are already ruined. What more harm can coronavirus do?" Irene Kampira asked as she sorted secondhand clothes at a bustling market in a poor suburb of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare....

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March 30, 2020
Blissful ignorance? Submariners likely unaware of pandemic

Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing. Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret...

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March 30, 2020
Doctors in India are being infected, trolled and evicted as they battle coronavirus

After a patient at a hospital in northern India tested positive for COVID-19, it wasn't long before some of the medical staff began showing symptoms, too. Doctors at Nalanda Medical...

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March 30, 2020
G-20 trade chiefs defend open supply chains amid virus fight

Group of 20 trade chiefs pledged to try to keep supply chains open as the world fights to contain the coronavirus pandemic and limit the economic fallout. The G-20 commerce...

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March 30, 2020
Italian contagion slows; lockdown to continue ‘at least until Easter’

While there were more encouraging signs of a slowing novel coronavirus contagion, Italy's health minister said on Monday that a national lockdown would be prolonged "at least until Easter." The...

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March 30, 2020
Mexican governors call on president to do more to close border with US

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Faced with the threat of the increased spread of the coronavirus across their borders, three northern Mexicans states are calling on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...

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March 30, 2020
Mexican president flouts coronavirus protocol to shake hands with ‘El Chapo’s’ mother

It was bad enough that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was seen shaking hands with a 92-year-old woman Sunday in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. But what really...

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March 30, 2020
AP PHOTOS: France’s front-line volunteers brave virus risks

They don't have to put themselves in harm's way, but the volunteers of France's well-known Civil Protection service have chosen the front line in the fight against the coronavirus. They...

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March 30, 2020
Fearing Gaza virus spread, Hamas preps for mass quarantines

When Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up...

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March 30, 2020
Popular Japanese comedian dies from the coronavirus

Popular Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, who drew inspiration from the American comedic icon Jerry Lewis, has died from the coronavirus, becoming Japan's first known celebrity victim of the disease. He...

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March 29, 2020
Fit, healthy 33-year-old recounts falling ill to coronavirus

Andrea Napoli didn't fit the usual profile of a coronavirus patient. At 33, he was in perfect health, with no history of respiratory disease. And he was in top physical...

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March 29, 2020
Uganda’s Bobi Wine sings against virus, criticizes leaders

Ugandan pop star and opposition leader Bobi Wine, who released a song urging Africa's people to wash their hands to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, is criticizing African...

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March 29, 2020
In Somalia, coronavirus goes from fairy tale to nightmare

At first, the coronavirus was just a fairy tale, a rumor along the dusty lanes of the displaced persons' camp that Habiba Ali calls home. It seemed fantastical: an illness...

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March 29, 2020
Rhode Island door knocks in search of fleeing New Yorkers

The Rhode Island National Guard started going door to door on Saturday in coastal areas to inform any New Yorkers who may have come to the state that they must...

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March 29, 2020
Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86

Poland's leading composer and conductor, Krzysztof Penderecki died Sunday after a “long and serious illness,” sources close to his family said. He was 86. In a statement emailed to The...

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