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Gadgets for tech giants made with coerced Uighur labor 05 Mar 2020 - 05:51 pm
A facility believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, north of Akto in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on June 4, 2019. AFP / Greg Baker
Switzerland reports first coronavirus death 05 Mar 2020 - 01:20 pm
 A map showing the distribution of coronavirus (COVID-2019) cases all around the world as of 22 February 2020 is displayed on a TV during a World Health Organization (WHO) news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019) in Geneva, Switzer
Twenty hurt after high-speed train derails in eastern France 05 Mar 2020 - 12:09 pm
Gendarmes arrive near the site where a high-speed TGV train locomotive derailed close to Inhenheim early on March 5, 2020 while travelling from the eastern city of Strasbourg to Paris./ AFP / Patrick HERTZOG
UK airline Flybe collapses as virus hits flights worldwide 05 Mar 2020 - 09:11 am
In this file photo taken on November 08, 2017 Passengers dissembark from a flybe aircraft after landing at Jersey Airport in St Peter, north of St Helier, on the British island of Jersey. / AFP / Oli SCARFF
Italian police uncover online coronavirus fraud 04 Mar 2020 - 09:51 pm
An Italian police car is seen near a mainly deserted Piazza della Scala on February 29, 2020 in center Milan, northern Italy.  AFP / Miguel Medina
'Unpaid and unseen': Female workers bolster Britain's economy 04 Mar 2020 - 09:51 pm
People carry bags reading ‘Equal Pay Day’ during a protest a day before International Women’s Day, in Bern March 7, 2015. Reuters / Ruben Sprich
Ukraine president jettisons PM in search for 'new brains' to revive economy 04 Mar 2020 - 09:37 pm
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk attends a meeting at Presidential Administration headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine September 2, 2019. Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko
Italian coronavirus death toll jumps to 107, all schools shut 04 Mar 2020 - 09:37 pm
An empty canal is seen after the spread of coronavirus has caused a decline in the number of tourists in Venice, Italy, March 1, 2020. Reuters/Manuel Silvestri
Putin says Russia targeted from abroad by fake news on coronavirus 04 Mar 2020 - 06:37 pm
A woman feeds pigeons in Moscow on March 4, 2020. AFP / Dimitar Dilkoff
Louvre in Paris reopens after staff end coronavirus protest 04 Mar 2020 - 03:42 pm
Visitors queue outside the Pyramid, the main entrance to the Louvre museum in Paris on March 4, 2020. AFP / Philippe Lopez
First coronavirus case in EU agency in Brussels 04 Mar 2020 - 03:24 pm
The European Union flag flies in front of images projected by activists from the environmental group Greenpeace showing Earth on fire onto the European Commission headquarters during a protest action on the eve of the presentation of the European Union cl
UK police charge another man over deaths of 39 Vietnamese in truck 04 Mar 2020 - 12:53 pm
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Huawei finds 5G heaven in Switzerland with ‘fitbits’ for cows 04 Mar 2020 - 08:28 am
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Thousands of migrants look for way around shut Greek border 03 Mar 2020 - 08:49 pm
Migrants travel on a horse carriage near the Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, near Edirne, Turkey March 3, 2020. Reuters/Huseyin Aldemir
French government to push through divisive pension changes 03 Mar 2020 - 06:35 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech about a EU defence strategy, at the Ecole Militaire, in Paris, France February 7, 2020. Francois Mori / Pool via Reuters
France shuts dozens of schools in bid to contain coronavirus 03 Mar 2020 - 12:48 pm
A board set outside of the Bertrand Du Guesclin high school informs the temporary closure of the schools in the area, on March 2, 2020 in Auray, western France , as part of measures against the outbreak of the Covid-19 Coronavirus.
/ AFP / Damien MEYER
Ukraine reports first coronavirus case - health official 03 Mar 2020 - 12:35 pm
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Italian schools go digital as coronavirus shuts classrooms 02 Mar 2020 - 08:44 pm
University chemistry professor Luca De Gioia uses his tablet to record his lesson in an empty class room to stream it online for his students at the Bicocca University in Milan, Italy, March 2, 2020.  Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane