On Wednesday, a Bangladeshi hospital owner accused of issuing thousands of false negative coronavirus test results to patients at his two clinics was arrested while trying to flee to India in a burqa, police said. The arrest marked the end of a nine-day manhunt for Mohammad Shahed on charges of …
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The USS Ronald and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups, made up of more than 12,000 US servicemen between the two carriers and their cruise ship escorts and destroyers, were operating in the South China Sea beginning Friday, the Pacific Fleet of USA In a statement. The two carriers, with more …
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“The pandemic and the associated global recession are about to wreak havoc in fragile, low-income countries. The response by rich nations so far has been extremely inadequate and dangerously myopic,” said Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs, in a statement released Thursday. To date, more than 13.7 million people …
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More than 20 countries, including Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Thailand, will see their number decrease by at least half by 2100, according to projections from a major study. China’s population will drop from 1.4 billion people today to 730 million in 80 years, said the study …
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Bangladesh authorities say Mohammad Shahed, 43, who had evaded authorities for nine days, was caught trying to cross a river into neighboring India while wearing a burqa. Shahed is accused of providing patients with false results of negative results for the new coronavirus, said Col. Ashique Billah, a spokesman for …
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