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Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus
Many Japanese defy appeals to stay home to curb virus
TOKYO (AP) — Under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others continue to dine out, …
Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down
NEW YORK (AP) — Gleaming new tent hospitals sit empty on two suburban New York college campuses, never having treated a single coronavirus patient. Convention centers that were turned into temporary hospitals in ot…
Police called after NYC funeral home puts bodies in trucks
NEW YORK (AP) — Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained ab…
Police: Callers bombard office in support of defiant pastor
CENTRAL, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police department has been bombarded by callers looking to voice their support of a pastor who was accused of attempting to hit someone with his church bus while violating a ban on m…
Man accused of racist threats expected to plead guilty
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A white man charged with making racist online threats against a black activist in Virginia is expected to plead guilty on Thursday, according to court records and a spokesman for federal…
Pakistan: Indian fire kills soldier, 2 civilians in Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Indian artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region hit Pakistani army posts and villages killing a soldier, a woman and a 16-year-old girl, Pakistani military and government official…
UN warns that 'tragedy beckons' in Syria from virus
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday that more than 40 cases of COVID-19 and at least three deaths have been reported in Syria, signaling that “tragedy beckons” after nine years of war t…
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Ex-congregant charged with breaking into minister's home
UNDATED (AP) — A secretive evangelical church in North Carolina says hysteria over the coronavirus may have motivated a former member with a gun to break into the home of one of the sect’s top ministers, but the no…
As virus cases surge, Brazil starts to worry its neighbors
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Brazil’s virtually uncontrolled surge of COVID-19 cases is spawning fear that construction workers, truck drivers and tourists from Latin America's biggest nation will spread the dise…
Asia Today: S. Korea's increase low, Maldives has 1st death
BANGKOK (AP) — South Korea reported four more cases of coronavirus infection in its first daily increase below five in about two months.
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Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus
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Immigrants deliver food, 'hope' to workers hit by pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — Every afternoon, Sandra Pérez and Francisco Ramírez go over their list of fellow New Yorkers who need help because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some are sick. Others lost jobs, but have children to …