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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said any decision on Tokyo would be based on expert advice
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09.08.2024
'Premature' to postpone Tokyo Olympics, says IOC chief
Republican Senator Richard Burr, Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee dumped stocks and warned donors of the impending coronavirus crisis even as the US government played down the threat, US media reported
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09.08.2024
Top GOP senator warned donors, dumped stocks while downplaying virus threat publicly
Air New Zealand has taken a hard hit from the coronavirus crisis, so the government stepped in
World
09.08.2024
Virus-hit Air New Zealand offered US$515 mn bailout
Opposition groups fear the new constitution is a ploy to allow President Alpha Conde to stay on for a third spell in office
World
09.08.2024
Guinea to vote on new constitution amid coronavirus fears
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Haiti President Jovenel Moise, pictured in January 2020, announced the first two cases of the novel coronavirus in his country
World 09.08.2024
Haiti reports first two coronavirus cases
Russians fear that the coronavirus and the slump in oil prices, which have hit the ruble, will have a lasting effect amid analyst predictions that living standards will plummet in a looming Great Depression
World 09.08.2024
Coronavirus, low oil dent Putin hopes for economic revival
Hong Kong is using tech to track the coronavirus
World 09.08.2024
Asia deploys innovative, if invasive, tech to curb virus
Carauari, an Amazonian town where residents fear the reach and spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in the rainforest in Brazil is seen on March 16, 2020
World 09.08.2024
Coronavirus fear now reaches deep into Amazon, too
Hand sanitiser is in short supply in many countries battling coronavirus
World 09.08.2024
Cricket great Warne's gin distillery shifts to hand sanitiser
Farmer Hamad al-Ibrahim stands in his damaged fields in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz
World 09.08.2024
Syria's Baghouz, one year after last IS flag came down
A man wears a face mask as he works at a market in Medellin, Colombia, on March 19, 2020
World 09.08.2024
Brazil closes nearly all land borders, Rio to shut beaches for 2 weeks
The pharmaceutical industry says it would make sure a coronavirus vaccine "will be available" to everyone "who needs it" across the globe
World 09.08.2024
Pharma chiefs expect coronavirus vaccine in 12-18 months
The Nile is under massive strain from pollution and climate change and now the threat of a colossal dam being built far upstream in Ethiopia
World 09.08.2024
The mighty Nile, threatened by waste, warming, mega-dam
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