Friday, March 20, 2026

New virus cases fall; WHO says China bought the world time

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YANAN WANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China reported 143 virus deaths and a dip in new cases Saturday while the head of the World...

South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects

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SAM MEDNICK Associated Press PALOCH, South Sudan (AP) — The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste...

Fear, boredom, adventure fill each day on quarantined ship

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FOSTER KLUG Associated Press YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Fear. Surprising moments of levity. Soul-crushing boredom. Life on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in a...

2 Russians flee virus quarantine, in dismay at hospitals

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JIM HEINTZ and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — One patient jumped out of a hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed...

China still mostly closed down as virus deaths pass 1,000

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JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The daily death toll in China from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the...

Hospitals cut services as worried Hong Kong has 1st death

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KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong hospitals cut services as medical workers were striking for a second day Tuesday to demand the...

China opens virus hospital, market plunges as toll grows

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KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China opened a new hospital built in 10 days, infused cash into its tumbling financial markets and further...

UK and EU clash over trade with 11 months to make a deal

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JILL LAWLESS and RAF CASERT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union set out clashing opening gambits Monday on striking a trade...

Uneasy quiet in Mideast, month after Iran strike against US

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LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press ABOARD THE USS HARRY S TRUMAN (AP) — Nearly a month after Iran launched a rare direct military attack against...

Philippines reports world’s 1st virus death outside China

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BEIJING (AP) — The first death outside China from the new coronavirus was recorded Sunday in the Philippines, as countries around the world evacuated...