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Google restricts office visits to curb coronavirus risk

Google on Monday began restricting visits to its offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and New York as it ramped up precautions against the deadly novel coronavirus.The added measure was enacte

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Italian economy suffering multiple blows as coronavirus outbreak grows

The blue-chip index on the Italian Stock Exchange plunged by 11.2 percent Monday over fears of an economic slowdown due to the country's outbreak of the coronavirus. Analysts said it could be just t

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EU, Turkey and migrant crisis, a severe challenge to unity

Syrian soldiers in the southern Idlib countryside after reportedly recapturing the area, November 25, 2019. /VCG Photo Editor's note: Lionel Vairon is the president of CEC Consulting company a

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Barcelona marathon postponed over coronavirus fears

MADRID, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Barcelona City Hall on Saturday confirmed that it has taken the decision to postpone the annual Barcelona Marathon due to worries over the continued spread of the COVI

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U.S. should take its share of responsibility on COVID-19

Editor's note: Sun Chenghao is a Beijing-based assistant research professor at the Institute of American Studies under the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations; Li Zhuyun is a

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Trump gets desired Democratic foes, but Biden worries linger

While Super Tuesday left the Democrats with a pair of front-runners whom President Donald Trump believes he can define and defeat, there are still some private worries

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Working from home: Making a chef out of white-collar workers

Editor's note: This is the ninth episode of our series "Faces Fighting Coronavirus" chronicling people from different walks of life who are affected by the outbreak of

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Coronavirus outside China: Panic buying in severely hit countries

Consumers around the world have reported empty supermarket shelves as people stock up on toilet paper, antibacterial handwash and cleaning items in the midst of coronavirus fears. Social media was fl

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Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain

Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year.As the Dow Jones Industrial Av

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U.S. reportedly delays ASEAN leaders' summit amid coronavirus fears

The United States has decided to postpone a meeting with leaders of Southeast Asian countries it had planned to host on March 14 due to worries about the coronavirus outbreak, two U.S. officials fami

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Pence to control all coronavirus messaging from health officials

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence moved Thursday to control the flow of information from federal agencies about the virus response, ordering that public communications be cleared by their offices.Accord

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Pence tries to project calm as virus response coordinator

Vice President Mike Pence sought to project calm Thursday in his new role as chief coordinator of the government’s response to the coronavirus as the Trump administrati

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S.Korea, U.S. delay joint military drills due to COVID-19 outbreak

South Korea and the United States decided on Thursday to postpone their joint springtime military drills on worries about the soaring COVID-19 cases in the past week.

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Global stocks extend steep fall on coronavirus fears, what for?

Editor's note:Jimmy Zhu is the chief strategist at Singapore-based Fullerton Research. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Wall Street stocks finishe

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From Syria's Idlib to Libya

A Syrian soldier stands at the entrance of the Maarat al-Numan city, Idlib Province, Syria, January 30, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Guy Burton is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College, Bru

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U.S. confirms 53 COVID-19 cases, Trump says it's under control

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that there are now 53 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 in the United States.CNN reported that these include 36 people who we

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U.S. stocks join global rout on virus, Dow drops by 3.6%

A specialist trader works at the New York Stock Exchange, New York, U.S., February 24, 2020. /Reuters Wall Street stocks finished with steep losses on Monday, joining a global rout as worries