Cured patients cheered at Spain's largest COVID-19 field hospital
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Trump backs off plan to reopen businesses by mid-April amid coronavirus warnings
The reversal by Trump, which he said would be disclosed in greater detail on Tuesday, came as the US death toll topped 2,460 from the respiratory disease, according to a Reuters tally, with more than 141,000 cases, the most of any country in the world.
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Trump says US won't pay Harry and Meghan security
The couple reportedly flew by private jet from Canada to Los Angeles before the border between the two countries closed because of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
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Trump proposes dividing US by coronavirus risk levels
In a letter to state governors released by the White House, US President Donald Trump said that better testing now allows the mapping of virus threat on a local level.
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Trump warns coronavirus shutdown could 'destroy a country'
In the chat show format interview with Fox at the White House, US President Donald Trump made it clear that he thinks the shutdown has been an overreaction.
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US fast-tracking antimalarials to treat coronavirus: Trump
The announcement follows encouraging research into chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in France and China, but many in the wider scientific community have cautioned more work is needed to prove they really work for COVID-19.
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Sanders roughed up, hits back at Democratic presidential debate
The 78-year-old hit back at the charge his policies were too "radical," insisting such ideas "exist in countries all over the world," including the notion that health care is a human right.
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'Guest is God': Crowds gather to greet Trump as he lands in India
India and the United States have built close political and security ties and Trump’s two-day trip is a sign of their converging interests, officials say, including a way to counter China’s rise as a superpower.
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Justice chief blasts Trump for making job 'impossible'
US Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday delivered a highly unusual public rebuke of Donald Trump, saying the president's tweets were making his job at the Justice Department 'impossible.'
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Ousted ambassador calls US diplomacy 'amoral'
Marie Yovanovitch, who Trump abruptly recalled last May from her post as US ambassador to Ukraine, spoke at Washington's Georgetown University where she received a prize from the school's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
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US-Taliban breakthrough appears closer as Ghani reports progress
Washington and the insurgents have been locked in gruelling talks that have stretched over more than a year for an agreement that would see the US pull thousands of troops from Afghanistan in a bid to end America's longest war.
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US President Trump's Middle East peace plan
A map of Israel and Palestinian territories showing a proposed Middle East peace plan of US President Donald Trump.
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Lacking support, Palestinians pull request for UN vote against Trump plan
A diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the United States has placed "very strong pressure" on other countries on the Security Council, including threats of economic retribution.
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US Senate acquits Trump in historic vote as re-election campaign looms
The trial formally began on 16 January. The Senate voted 51-49 last Friday to defeat the Democrats’ bid to call witnesses such as Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, with only two Republicans joining them.
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Top Democrat Pelosi rips up Trump speech
The tension between Trump and his Democratic nemesis was palpable from the outset, as Pelosi extended her extended her hand for a handshake - and the president failed to return the favour.
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Trump in State of Union speech: 'I keep my promises'
The Republican said his policies of deregulation and tax cuts - criticised by opponents as harming the environment and favoring the wealthy over the poor - were responsible for "unparalleled success" in the economy.
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Families in Africa fear impact of US immigration ban
These are some of the families waiting to see how they will be affected by President Donald Trump’s expansion of the US travel ban.
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With acquittal expected, Democrat calls for Trump censure
West Virginia's Joe Manchin said that although the evidence was strong that Trump abused his power to solicit political support from Ukraine, the Republican-dominated Senate was not going to convict him when it votes on Wednesday.
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Trump impeachment trial to resume for final arguments
At only the third impeachment trial of a US president, Trump is all but assured of being acquitted Wednesday, the day after his annual 'State of the Union' speech, which the president said will carry a 'very, very positive message.'
