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A combination photo shows a street scene from normal celebrations for Thingyan a few years ago compared to this year's festival
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17.08.2024
Silent streets for water festival in Myanmar lockdown
The IMF says Asia's biggest economies will narrowly avoid recession this year, but should boubnce back strongly in 2021
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17.08.2024
China, India to narrowly avoid recession in virus-hit 2020: IMF
Guayaquil is the largest city in Ecuador and has recorded 68 percent of Ecuador's almost 5,000 virus cases and more than half of the 272 deaths
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17.08.2024
Ecuador bishop blesses virus-stricken city from helicopter
This handout photo obtained April 13, 2020 courtesy of the City of Monroe, Louisiana shows the aftermath of storm damage after tornadoes ripped through southern US states on Easter Sunday
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17.08.2024
Tornadoes bring death, destruction in southern US
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A man disinfects a building in Algiers on March 20
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North Africa battles couscous shortage amid coronavirus profiteering
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (3-L), who has scorned social distancing measures to combat COVID-19, is pictured here without a mask as he visits the site of a field hospital under construction in Aguas Lindas, Goias State to handle virus cases
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Brazil braces for onslaught of COVID-19 cases as virus advances
Will EU finance ministers find an enlightened resolution of their differences on a coronavirus rescue plan for the hardest-hit nations in the bloc?
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EU nations seek breakthrough to clinch virus rescue
Rio de Janeiro's Governor Wilson Witzel, pictured in September 2019, has tested positive for coronavirus
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Two Brazil governors test positive for coronavirus
Workers build new graves in a cemetery in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 12 2020
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Failures in Ecuador a warning for Latin America's COVID-19 fight
Cabin crews' work experience means they already have many of the necessary skills to look after patients
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Furloughed staff in Sweden retrain to help hospitals
Expectations are growing that OPEC will agree to reduce oil output to support prices
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Oil rallies as deal takes shape before key meeting
Young pupils follow a lesson on a mobile telephone at a camp for displaced Syrians in the village of Kafr Yahmoul in northwestern Idlib province
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In war-torn Syria, digital learning battles power cuts
A Nigerian police officer in Lagos flags down an oncoming vehicle at a checkpoint to enforce an extended lockdown as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19
World 17.08.2024
Nigeria extends virus lockdown on key cities for 2 weeks
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