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- CHANG-RAN KIM and KIYOSHI TAKENAKA
Tokyo, Japan
Reuters
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that Group of Seven leaders had agreed to support a "complete" Olympics, but dodged questions about whether any of the leaders had brought up the possibility of postponement.
His comments come as concerns mount about whether the
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Aid groups have warned the coronavirus pandemic is causing a squeeze on lifesaving supplies and hampering their ability to help some of the world's most vulnerable people.
An internally displaced Syrian child sits in front of a tent in an
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- RINA CHANDRAN
Bangkok, Thailand
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Disinfecting drones. Talking robots. Artificial intelligence that can scan thousands of medical images in a flash.
These are just some of the technologies rolled out by Asian countries including Singapore and China to contain the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 7,000
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- ANASTASIA MOLONEY
Bogota, Colombia
Thomson Reuters Foundation
If governments follow through on plans to build thousands of kilometres of roads through the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, it will not only fuel deforestation but bring economic losses too, researchers said on Monday.
They examined the potential social, environmental
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- KAROLOS GROHMANN
Athens, Greece
Reuters
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics flame handover ceremony in Athens this week will be a scaled-down event with only a few Tokyo Games officials and torch bearers inside the stadium to protect everyone from the coronavirus, the Hellenic Olympic Committee said on Monday.
The handover
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- DOINA CHAICU and GUY FAULCONBRIDGE
Coronavirus fears led to a historic drop in US stocks, shut borders and disrupted daily life around the world, as governments took increasingly drastic measures to try to reduce the severity of the global outbreak.
Financial markets had their worst day in 30 years despite emergency action
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Two nurses denied midwife jobs for refusing to carry out abortions lost their their legal bid on Thursday to take Sweden to a top European court for violating their religious beliefs.
Ellinor Grimmark and Linda Steen had told the European Court of Human
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- GREGORY SCRUGGS
Seattle, US
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Shortly after Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced a ban this week on large gatherings in the Seattle area to stem the largest coronavirus outbreak in the United States, security guard Omar Kadmiri received the message he had been dreading.
His employer, which provides
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- RENJU JOSE and COLIN PACKHAM
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australia's capital and the country's second most populous state declared states of emergency on Monday while large, non-essential gatherings were banned in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus after the national death toll rose to five.
Australia has recorded nearly 300 cases of
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- BAN BARKAWI
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Food banks across Britain are struggling to cope with demand from vulnerable people as consumers worried by the coronavirus outbreak empty supermarket shelves, charities said last week.
Many said they were already struggling to feed regular users and were preparing for a rise
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- ADELLE M BANKS
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France and Spain joined Italy in imposing lockdowns on tens of millions of people, Australia ordered self-isolation of arriving foreigners and other countries extended entry bans as the world sought to contain the spreading coronavirus.
Panic buying in Australia, the United States and Britain saw leaders appeal
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- KATE LAMB
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australia will impose 14 day self-isolation on international travellers arriving from midnight Sunday and ban cruise ships from foreign ports for 30 days, mirroring restrictions in nearby New Zealand aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the new
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- JAN WOLFE and GABRIELLA BORTER
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- RINA CHANDRAN
Bangkok, Thailand
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Millions of children in Asia risk falling behind because of school closures amid the coronavirus outbreak, with unequal access to the internet hurting poorer kids as classes go online, technology and human rights experts warned on Friday.
