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- GREGORY SCRUGGS
Seattle, US
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Native Americans slammed a decision by the US Government to revoke a tribe's reservation status, which they warned would leave them without control over their land and place them at increased risk during the coronavirus pandemic.
The US Bureau of Indian Affairs told
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- LAURIE GOERING
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the risks of allowing Africa's swelling ranks of city dwellers to crowd into slums without proper access to water, sewers, transport and other public services, urban experts have warned.
Not a single African city ranks in
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- ROLI SRIVASTAVA and ANURADHA NAGARAJ
Mumbai/Chennai, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indian businessman Shishpal Singh was still stirring vegetables and rice at his Mumbai apartment block when migrant workers laid off in the coronavirus lockdown began queueing nearby, desperate for a hot meal.
The men had travelled to the western city from the
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- YONAT SHIMRON
WHO opens door to broader use of masks to limit spread of coronavirus; latest on spread around the world
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- STEPHANIE NEBEHAY and ANDREA SHALAL
Geneva, Switzerland/Washington DC, US
Reuters
The World Health Organization on Friday said that medical masks should be prioritised for health workers, but it opened the door to greater public use of homemade masks or other mouth coverings as a way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
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- COLIN PACKHAM
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
As many as 10 million people globally may have been infected by the new coronavirus, Australia's chief medical officer said on Friday, with the under-reporting due to a lack of testing in some countries for the highly contagious respiratory disease.
A Reuters tally of offical
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- THIN LEI WIN
Rome, Italy
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Countries with large populations and low levels of development are most likely to see a rise in the risk of armed conflict after extreme weather events, according to a new study that researchers said underscored the need to boost their resilience.
Almost one
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- SHADI KHAN SAIF
Kabul, Afghanistan
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Afghanistan's "fragile gains" in women's rights are at risk unless women play a key role in peace talks with the Taliban, one of the few female members of the government's negotiating team has said.
Lawmaker Fawzia Koofi, a vocal critic of the Taliban,
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- UMBERTO BACCHI
Tbilisi, Georgia
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Digital surveillance rolled out to curb coronavirus should be limited in time and scope, more than 100 rights groups said on Thursday, warning governments not to use the crisis as cover for pervasive snooping.
From facial recognition to phone tracking, governments are turning
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
A record 10,627 suspected slaves were referred to the British government for help in 2019, official data showed on Thursday, up by 52 per cent in a year, amid fears coronavirus will worsen abuse.
Anti-slavery groups called for more action to help people
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- CLARE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
Positive coronavirus cases have started to grow in Italy’s very religious south, where high levels of unemployment and organized crime complicate the application of stringent rules to prevent the spread of the pandemic. In some southern cities, fights have started to break out and people
