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Virus closes sites around the world; stocks, oil prices sink

by Associated Press
| March 9, 2020 6:05 AM

SOAVE, Italy (AP) — Anxiety over the new coronavirus epidemic sent global stock markets and oil prices plunging Monday, touched off prison riots in Italy and caused a cascading shutdown of sites and events ranging from Saudi schools to a Holocaust march.

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