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US unemployment surges to a Depression-era level of 14.7%

The coronavirus crisis has sent U.S. unemployment surging to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roo

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Deserted beaches in Spain as tourism crippled by coronavirus

02:06 Spain's Mediterranean coast is normally packed full of holidaymakers taking in the sun but in these unusual coronavirus times, resorts like those around Valencia are deserted.Tou

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IAG warns air traffic won't return to normal before 2023 "at the earliest"

The International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world's largest airline groups, has warned that passenger demand won't recover to the level of 2019 bef

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Lockdown extends Britain's longest run without coal since 1882

None of the nation's power has been supplied by coal generators for almost a month due to good weather and the pandemic.

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: Expatriate exodus in Gulf countries

Editor's note:This is the 56th article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is thepreviousone. Indian nationals gather at the Dubai International Airport before leaving the country on a fl

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COVID-19 vaccine: silver bullet or pipe dream?

CGTN "Operation Warp Speed" – this is the name given by the Trump administration to the program aimed at finding a vaccine against COVID-19. The name emphasizes the urgency of a project bring

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Black adults four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites in UK: ONS

Black adults are more than four times as likely to die from a COVID-19 related death than white people in Britain, according to a provisional analysis by the British Office for National Statistics

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How did VE Day shape modern Europe?

On 8 May 1945, World War II officially ended in Europe, where it had begun precisely 1,953 days earlier. Hitler, surrounded by Allied troops, had killed himself in his underground bunker in Berlin on

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U.S.'s reality highlights need for economic rights as human rights

An NYPD officer walks along a sparsely populated Wall Street in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 1, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journali

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Uber Eats grew like hell in Q1 but Uber still lost nearly $3B

Ahead of its earnings report today, shares of Uber rose around 11%, buoyed by a set of financial results and promises about the future from Lyft that were rated highly by investors. That optimism lap

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Over 3.1 million more U.S. workers file for unemployment benefits

Over 3.1 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 2, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.The data brings the total claims filed since mid-March, when the coronav

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Symend raises $52M to help mediate when customers are at risk of defaulting on payments

With unemployment growing at a worrying rate, we’re seeing a lot more people finding themselves in hot water when it comes to their finances. Today a startup that’s built a platform to hel

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COVID-19 could change drug consumption for worse: UN report

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 crisis has the potential to generate a lasting transformation of drug markets and change drug consumption for the worse, according to a UN report publi

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Digitalization is bridging the trade gap during COVID-19 pandemic

Editor's note:Adriel Kasonta is a London-based foreign affairs analyst and commentator. He is the founder of AK Consultancy and former chairman of the International Affairs Committee at Bow Group,

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To match COVID-19 with Pearl Harbor is dangerous

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC, May 5, 2020. /AP Editor's note:CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary

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GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more

Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn̵

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Russian hospitals prepare for COVID-19 peak

Russia has recorded a rise of more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, as it heads into the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.President Vladimir Putin has said everything is bei