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European sport struggles as Spain's top football league suspended

Real Madrid's footballers have been quarantined. /AFP Spain becomes the second top European football league to postpone whole rounds of fixtures as European sport struggles to fight off COVID-

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Yext aims to deliver more coronavirus-related answers by making its site search free

Yext says that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s making its Yext Answers site search product free for 90 days.You might not see an obvious connection between site search and a worldwide

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WHO chief urges world to "double down" as COVID-19 declared pandemic

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged all countries to "double down" rather than give up on efforts to fight COVID-19 as his organization declared it a pandemic. "Let me

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Senate bill seeks to ban Chinese app TikTok from government work phones

On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced legislation to further restrict the use of the popular viral video app TikTok on government devices.The bill seeks to expand exis

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S&P 500 falls 7%, triggers second circuit breaker in a week

The SP 500 fell more than 7 percent at the open on Thursday after WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic and U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban for Europe, triggering this week's second circu

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Internet companies accused of failing to stop 'explosion' in online child sex abuse

An independent inquiry into the problem has found there has been an 'explosion in child sexual abuse' as a result of the internet.

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COVID-19 pandemic could end in June if countries take strong action

Zhong Nanshan, a well-known Chinese respiratory expert, speaks at a press conference in south China's Guangdong Province, March 12. /CGTN screenshot The COVID-19 pandemic could be brought unde

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China vows more support for coronavirus-hit foreign trade

China's commerce ministry said Thursday that the country will move to stabilize its foreign trade amid growing external uncertainty as the novel coronavirus disease (C

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X-rays and CT scans reveal how coronavirus kills

Scans show patients' lungs are being filled with a sticky mucus that prevents them from inhaling as there is no space for the air.

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Australia unveils stimulus package of $11.4 billion over COVID-19

Australia on Thursday put forward a stimulus packagevaluing 17.6 billion Australian dollars (about 11.4 billion U.S. dollars) to stave off an economic recession caused by the impact of the COVID-1

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China says its COVID-19 peak is over

China on Thursday said the peak of the current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country is over, hours after the World Health Organization decla

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China has passed peak of coronavirus epidemic: health commission

00:19 China has passed the peak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, said Mi Feng, a spokesman of the National Health Commission on Thursday.New cases keep declining, and

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Xi Focus: With virus basically curbed, China pushes ahead battle against economic fallout

After securing an upper hand in its all-out confrontation with the novel coronavirus on home turf, China is warily repositioning itself to fight the economic fallouts

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Backgrounder: What is a pandemic?

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 11, 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednes

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Answer Bank: What's the difference between epidemic and pandemic?

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic on Wednesday, but before WHO had been using the term "epidemic." What do

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Forest owner infected, forces postponement of City vs. Arsenal match

Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Olympiacos and Nottingham Forest, looks on prior to the UEFA Europa League round of 32 first-leg match between Olympiacos FC and Arsenal FC in Piraeus, Greece, Febru

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Twitter makes working from home mandatory for employees around the world in response to COVID-19

After “strongly encouraging” it earlier this month, Twitter said today that working from home is now mandatory for all employees around the world due to COVID-19 concerns. In announcement