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The director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Tuesday the coronavirus outbreak is "accelerating, and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic." "More than six months in, the case for national unity and global solidarity is undeniable," he said at a WHO briefing Tuesday. "We cannot afford any…

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Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund lost 11%, or $164.7 billion, in the three months ended March, it said in Tokyo on Friday.The results come just months after the fund revamped top management and revised its asset allocation to focus more on overseas debt.Overseas bonds were the only major asset to generate a positive quarterly return.The…

French churches, Italian soccer stadiums and Austrian ski bars. A cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, would become a deadly harbinger of symptomless spreading.ImageLondon’s Columbia Road flower market was packed as usual in March.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York TimesImageOfficers in protective gear boarded the the Diamond Princess in February to move a person with the…

A health worker takes samples from a man to test him for Covid-19 coronavirus. The World Health Organisation says the world is in a "new and dangerous" phase of the coronavirus pandemicMore than 150 000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO on Thursday The virus has killed at least 454 000 people and infected more…