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Beer-lovers were reassured by China's low numbers of new virus cases, and turned out to raise a glass
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11.08.2024
Chinese beer lovers leave facemasks and worries behind as festival opens
Three Gambian government ministers have tested positive for the coronavirus, with Gambian President Adama Barrow in self-isolation after his deputy got the virus
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11.08.2024
Gambia government ravaged by COVID-19
Authorities in the Philippines have ordered people to stay home unless they need to buy essential goods or exercise outdoors
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11.08.2024
Millions return to lockdown in Philippines as virus cases soar
Before the onset of the virus, HSBC was already under pressure owing to China-US tensions and Brexit
World
11.08.2024
HSBC profits hammered by pandemic and soaring US-China tensions
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Former pope Benedict XVI became seriously ill after visiting his sick brother in Germany in June and is "extremely frail", reports say
World 11.08.2024
Former pope Benedict XVI 'extremely frail': report
People practice social distancing at Washington square park in San Francisco
World 11.08.2024
Top coronavirus advisor warns US in 'new phase' of pandemic
Irfaan Ali holds his son as he arrives at a campaign rally in Lusignan, Guyana on February 29, 2020
World 11.08.2024
Opposition candidate Ali sworn in as Guyana's president
On Valentine's Day 2005, Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, who embodied the reconstruction of the country after its 1975-1990 civil war was killed in a monster bomb attack on his convoy
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Hariri assassination: the day that rocked Lebanon
The consequences of the Hariri murder still loom large over the Middle East
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Verdict looms in killing of Lebanon ex-PM Hariri
In one of many fronts in the increasingly poisonous US-Chinese relationship, President Donald Trump has threatened to ban the wildly popular app TikTok, citing national security concerns
World 11.08.2024
Microsoft to keep exploring TikTok deal after talks with Trump
Doctors treat a patient infected with COVID-19, which has pushed the Brazilian health care system to the brink, at the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital de Clinicas, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 15, 2020
World 11.08.2024
Virus exposes cracks in Brazil's public health system
Journalists protest the murder of their colleague Maria Helena Ferral in Xalapa, Veracruz state, on April 1, 2020 -- a total of four journalists have been murdered in the country since the start of 2020
World 11.08.2024
Mexican journalist shot dead, the fourth in 2020
Djokhar Tsarnaev, 27, was sentenced to death in 2015 for planting two home-made bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and injuring 264 others
World 11.08.2024
Trump calls for new death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber
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