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Germany cancels Easter festivities as COVID-19 cases rise

Germany canceled Easter celebrations amid growing cases of COVID-19 as Chancellor Angela Merkel said a pandemic doesn't take a vacation.She announced the extension of restrictions on public life to c

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Popular Chinese restaurant hit hard by coronavirus

03:11 As anaward-winningchef, Peter Chang has 12 popular restaurants in Washington, D.C. area.Since the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.,local governments havesuspended all restaurants

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U.S. weekly jobless claims set second straight record as COVID-19 paralyzes economic activity

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The number of initial jobless claims in the United States soared to reach 6.65 million last week, doubling the record set a week earlier, as the economic impact of the

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You can now buy AWS’ $99 DeepComposer keyboard

AWS today announced that its DeepComposer keyboard is now available for purchase. And no, DeepComposer isn’t a mechanical keyboard for hackers but a small MIDI keyboard for working with the AWS

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Apple accidentally confirms the existence of an unreleased product, AirTags

Whoops! Apple inadvertently revealed the existence of an unreleased product, AirTags, in a support video uploaded to its YouTube account today. The video, “How to erase your iPhone,” offer

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: Testing the limits of healthcare systems

Editor's note: This is the 31st article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is the previous one. 04:07 The coronavirus is spreading fast across the world, with no sign of relie

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APD | President Duterte says he will not waver to use force to ensure order

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA, April 2 (APD) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he will not have second thoughts on using force to restore order should people conside

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Stocks fall sharply as U.S. government warns of hard weeks ahead

A recent redbound in domestic equity prices faded further into the distance today, as American stocks fell for a second consecutive day following modest Tuesday declines.After rising from new 52 week

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Mass testing, empty ICUs: Germany scores early against virus

Late last year — long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe — scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for the vi

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Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom

Zoom’s troubled year just got worse.Now that a large portion of the world is working from home to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom’s popularity has rocketed, but also has led to an

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China-U.S. trade ties face new challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic

Editor's note: COVID-19: Economic Analysis is a series of articles comprising experts' views on developing micro and macroeconomic situations around the globe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This arti

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Will the economic strategy work?

Editor's note: Jean Pisani-Ferry is a senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel and a senior non-resident fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, holds the Tommaso P

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Reporter's Dairy: Panic-buying of guns in the U.S.

The gun store owned by James Janya is crowded with gun buyers amid the coronavirus outbreak. Ediz Tiyansan/CGTN When the number of COVID-19 cases took a sudden exponential growth in Los Angele

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Overwhelmed U.S. doctors share COVID-19 experiences

02:23 How bad is the situation in the U.S. and how much worse will it get? Some doctors are now sharing their experiences about treating COVID-19 patients.

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CNN's Chris Cuomo diagnosed with COVID-19

CNN Anchor Christopher C. Cuomo./Social Media CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday said that he has been diagnosed with Covid-19.Chris wrote on his Twitter page, "In these difficult times that se

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UN report calls for global solidarity to respond to socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

Video: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the virtual press launch of the report: Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. (Xinhua/X

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White House turns to statistical models for virus forecast

Like forecasters tracking a mega-storm, White House officials are relying on statistical models to help predict the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and try to protec