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- CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
Europe and the United States experienced first-hand the brunt of the pandemic, witnessing its tremendous death toll and impact on society. But some Catholic nuns, on the front lines in helping the poor and vulnerable, described on Tuesday the challenges and human cost of fighting
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- AMBER MILNE
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Roma communities across Europe have become a police target in lockdown, a report found on Wednesday, amid a sharpening global focus on racial equality and law enforcement.
The report by Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, said Roma communities had faced tougher quarantines
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Rome, Italy
AP
Pope Francis has praised Alex Zanardi as an example of strength amid adversity as the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist recovers from a handbike crash.
Francis penned a handwritten letter of encouragement assuring Zanardi and his family of his prayers. It was published on
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- EMMA FARGE and JOHN MILLER
Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
The world faces a shortage of oxygen concentrators as the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus infection nears the 10 million mark, the World Health Organization head said on Wednesday.
"Many countries are now experiencing difficulties obtaining oxygen concentrators," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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- EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Jackson, Mississippi, US
AP
The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag drew opposition Tuesday from two big forces in the culturally conservative state: Southern Baptists and Walmart.
Walmart said it will stop displaying the Mississippi flag while the state debates whether to change the design. The Mississippi Baptist Convention said lawmakers
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- RENJU JOSE and COLIN PACKHAM
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- ALEJANDRA MOLINA
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- KATE KELLAND
London, UK
Reuters
Britain on Tuesday announced an easing of social distancing rules from 4th July, reducing the recommended gap from two metres to "one metre plus" in England as it further loosened lockdown measures meant to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
What do scientists say?
Infectious disease experts
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- SAURABH SHARMA
Lucknow, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Dozens of girls at an Indian care home for runaways and sexual abuse victims have tested positive for coronavirus, raising renewed scrutiny over the management of state-run shelters as the country faces a surge of new infections.
The shelter in the northern Indian
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- YONAT SHIMRON
A new study examining Americans’ response to COVID-19 shows that with the exception of white evangelicals, a majority of Americans are not comfortable returning to in-person religious services.
The results of the survey suggest that despite political pressure to reopen houses of worship - from President Donald Trump
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- MALAICKA ADIHE
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo's south-eastern mining heartland are boosting efforts to tackle child labour amid concerns that the coronavirus pandemic could drive more families to put their children to work in mines, officials said.
Congo is Africa's main producer
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- KATE BRUMBACK
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- MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS, FRANK JORDANS and NICK PERRY
Berlin, Germany
AP
Renewed lockdown measures in a German region where hundreds of coronavirus cases sprung up at a slaughterhouse and news that the world's top-ranked tennis player has also been infected provided a stark reminder to Europeans on Tuesday that the pandemic is far from gone.
Meanwhile,
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