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Life under coronavirus lockdown in Spain

Waking up from a bad dream, Gonzalo Resa Heras looked at his watch and saw that it was already 11 a.m., but he still felt tired after a very restless sleep once again. As Spain has the second

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HKSAR chief executive warns of surge in imported cases, calls for concerted efforts against COVID-19

Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam warned on Wednesday of a surge in imported cases of COVID-19 due to worsening situ

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France's Macron launches army operation to win war against COVID-19

Declaring a war against "an invisible enemy," President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced an army operation "Resilience" to back the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and support the po

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Survey shows 34 pct Canadians worry about rent, mortgage payment due to COVID-19

At least 34 percent of Canadians are worried about missing a rent or mortgage payment this month because of the impact of COVID-19, according to a survey issued by Canadian Angus Reid Institute on W

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: Governments in the Americas under fire

Editor's note: This is the 23rd article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is the previous one: When will coronavirus end? United States Capitol Building /AFP The new coronavirus is n

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COVID-19 cases top 200,000 in Europe as daily numbers rebound in Italy

The coronavirus continued to sweep across Europe, with the combined number of confirmed cases on the continent exceeding 200,000 as of Tuesday evening, accounting for half of known cases worldwid

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Coronavirus deaths top 1,000 in France as gov't struggles to contain "unprecedented" epidemic

French Director General of Health Jerome Salomon on Tuesday announced that 1,100 people diagnosed with the COVID-19 have died, an increase of 240 in one day, as the country entered the second week of

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Chinese ambassador to Greece: We need to work together as a team

01:39 China has donated tons of medical supplies to Greece. Last weekend, a plane arrived in Athens, carrying 550,000 medical and surgical masks as well as protective equipment. The ai

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Will Trump sacrifice lives in exchange for another presidential term?

00:31 As most parts of the Western world are in lockdown with an aim of saving people from the rapidly spreading coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump has his eyes on the economy, r

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S.Korea to double emergency corporate funding package to 80 bln USD over COVID-19 outbreak

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that his government will double the size of emergency corporate funding package to 100 trillion won (80 billion U.S. do

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'America First' in time of global crisis? More like 'America Isolated'

German newspaper Die Welt reported recently that U.S. President Donald Trump had sought to entice a German medical company with "a large sum of money" for a potential COVID-19 vaccine "only for the U

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What the G20 must do

Editor's note: Paola SubacchiisProfessor of International Economics at the University of London's Queen Mary Global Policy Institute,the author, most recently,of The Cost of Free Money. The articl

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U.S. is weaponizing COVID-19 through economic means for regime change

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López wears protective mask in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 15, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political ana

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Airlines face reckoning as government help comes with strings attached

Shattered airlines were left counting the cost of government support as countries from the United States to New Zealand set out conditions for bailouts needed to absorb the shock of the coronavirus p

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Dow falls again to end Wall Street's worst week since 2008

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 20, 2020. /Reuters Wall Street stocks plunged again on Friday bringing the market's worst week since 20

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Trump tries to score political points by blaming China for COVID-19

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and

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Why investors not rushing to stocks when helicopter money is coming?

VCG Editor's Note: The series – COVID-19 Economic Analysis consists of articles expressing experts and scholars' analysis of the global macro and micro economy amid the coronavirus outbreak. T