NBA veteran Andrew Bogut says players were “used like pawns” in the process that led to his Sydney Kings refusing to fly across the country for Game 4 of the Australian finals series because of the coronavirus pandemic March 20, 2020, 3:43 AM 3 min read SYDNEY — NBA veteran Andrew Bogut says players were […]
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WASHINGTON — The Group of 7 summit will not be held as scheduled at Camp David in June but will instead be convened by teleconference because of the coronavirus outbreak, a White House official said on Thursday. A White House spokesman, Judd Deere, said in a statement that President Trump would host the leaders “via
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The crisis response has been further complicated by a lack of top staffers at Treasury, along with a dearth of expertise managing such crises. Currently, the department does not have officials overseeing two top divisions, domestic finance and sanctions. Treasury’s acting assistant secretary for international finance, Geoffrey Okamoto, is departing to be the first deputy
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China has taken the unusual move of exonerating a doctor who was reprimanded for warning about the coronavirus outbreak and later died of the disease March 20, 2020, 3:39 AM 3 min read BEIJING — China has exonerated a doctor who was officially reprimanded for warning about the coronavirus outbreak and later died of the
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JoJo just dropped a remix of “Leave (Get Out)” that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would most definitely get behind. The 29-year-old singer shared a modified version of her 2004 debut single on Wednesday, now warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and how everyone should stay home to slow the pandemic’s spread.
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Image copyright Cathy Wassell Image caption Digital marketing agency owner Cathy Wassell has been self-employed for 17 years Self-employed people say they are deeply worried about how they will survive with no income due to the impact of the coronavirus, after discovering the financial measures announced by the UK government on Tuesday do not apply
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When Pam Mundus and a friend landed in Milan for a weeklong vacation on Feb. 23, uniformed airport workers in face masks, attempting to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, took their temperatures. But when Ms. Mundus returned home on a direct flight from Rome to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on March
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The Olympic flame has arrived in Japan from Greece and was greeted in a scaled-down ceremony at an air base in northern Japan By HARUKA NUGA and KOJI UEDA Associated Press March 20, 2020, 2:36 AM 3 min read MATSUSHIMA AIR BASE, Japan — The Olympic flame arrived in Japan on Friday from Greece in
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“We kept kind of joking about it, like, ‘Oh, this is crazy! This is not going to affect us, why is everyone so wigged out about it?’ And then it did,” she said. Reading about Mr. Frilot, she added, put it into perspective for her. On Facebook, Kathy Perilloux shared a similar conversion. Before March
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While other industries struggle, Liu Zhiyong says China’s virus outbreak is boosting demand for his knee-high, bright yellow robots to deliver groceries and patrol malls looking for customers who fail to wear masks March 20, 2020, 1:45 AM 3 min read BEIJING — While other industries struggle, Liu Zhiyong says China’s virus outbreak is boosting
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