• UK PM Johnson given ‘OXYGEN SUPPORT’ in ICU, ‘not on ventilator’ says Gove
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has received oxygen support and is being kept under close observation in the intensive care unit of St Thomas' Hospital in London as his Covid-19 symptoms worsen.
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• ‘Don’t politicize the matter’: India allows export of drugs linked to Covid-19 treatment to ‘badly-hit’ countries amid row with US
  New Delhi has agreed to ship Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to the nations most impacted by Covid-19 and urged not to “politicize” the issue after US President Donald Trump threatened “retaliation” for its drug export ban.
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• WATCH police arrest Pakistani doctors during heated protest over lack of protective gear amid surge in Covid-19
  A group of Pakistani doctors clashed with police after taking to the streets to protest over shortages of protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus. The scuffles led to dozens arrests.
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• ‘There may be retaliation’: Trump says India may face US wrath if PM Modi fails to overturn export ban on Covid-19 treatment
  US President Donald Trump has warned that Washington may retaliate against New Delhi over a decision to bar exports of an experimental treatment for Covid-19, not long after asking his Indian counterpart to reverse the move.
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• At long last: China reports zero new coronavirus deaths for FIRST TIME as outbreak continues to subside
  Beijing has reported zero new fatalities from Covid-19, the country’s National Health Commission said in a statement, a first for China since it was wracked with a major coronavirus outbreak late last year.
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• Plot thickens as Wisconsin Supreme Court overrules governor & orders ‘pandemic primary’ to proceed
  State, local and primary elections in Wisconsin must proceed, the state Supreme Court said after ruling that the governor lacks authority to postpone them – which he tried to do earlier, citing the coronavirus crisis.
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• Most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse WALKS FREE from jail after appeal granted in unanimous decision
  Australia’s highest court has tossed the conviction of Cardinal George Pell, who was found guilty of historic child sex crime and sentenced to six years in prison. The ex-Vatican treasurer was once a close aide to Pope Francis.
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07 April 2020

• “Who’s Going to Pay For it?” A Dying Patient’s Last Words Before Being Placed on a Ventilator

  In a country that leads in slashing budgets and encouraging individualism, the top-down failure to respond to the coronavirus

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• Amid Sanctions and Military Mobilization, Maduro Pens Letter Urging Americans to Question Trump

  "I wholeheartedly ask you not to allow your country to be dragged once again into another unending conflict, another Vietnam,

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• Imagining a Department of Actual Defense in a Time of Coronavirus

  The microscopic little coronavirus is showing once again the failure and limitations of militarism in addressing the pressing

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• Inmates at Privately-Run ICE Camp Go on Hunger Strike Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Deteriorating Conditions

  ICA Farmville already has a reputation for overcrowding and poor sanitation. Last year the private ICE prison was hit with an

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• US Leads Global Wave of Nations Stealing, Seizing and Diverting Coronavirus Equipment

  Governments have resorted to seizing, diverting, outbidding and outright stealing equipment from each other in a desperate

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• Erdogan’s Idlib Misadventure: Reality Checks and Hard Lessons for Turkey

  Turkey has found itself as a historic diplomatic crossroads following its military blunder in Syria. Now, wounded and

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• John Whitehead: The Attack on Civil Liberties in the Age of COVID-19

  In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the

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