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Trump's coronavirus response in tweets
Coronavirus pandemic

From 'Xi's doing a great job' to 'The WHO really blew it’: Trump's coronavirus response in tweets

The US President has been able to use Twitter to shape what the public talks about in the realm of politics. He's gone into overdrive on the coronavirus pandemic.

  • by Chris Zappone and Mark Stehle
Funeral home workers remove the body of a person suspected to have died from the coronavirus outbreak from a residential building in Wuhan in February.
Coronavirus pandemic

Virus epicentre Wuhan raises number of dead by 50 per cent

Banksy's stir-crazy rats squeeze a tube of toothpaste, hang off the light switch and unravel a loo roll.
Opinion
Parenting

As a father of three, Banksy's rat-filled bathroom stunt is a gift

  • by Alastair Sooke
Brazil's Marine Corps soldiers from the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Radiological Defence division perform disinfection operations at tram stations under guard in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
Coronavirus pandemic

Jobs first: Bolsonaro fires popular health expert

  • by Lisandra Paraguassu
A Turkish Air Force warplane.
War

Refugee women killed in Turkish strikes on Kurdish group in Iraq

Opinion & Perspectives

Now is the worst time to cut World Health Organisation funding

The Age's View
The Age's View

For all its faults, it is the best agency to lead a global response to this disease.

Trump Administration fuels rumours that virus came from China lab

Matthew Lee

Without the weight of evidence, they're trying to blame China for sickness and death from COVID-19 in the United States.

After 10 days of hell, take it from me: you don't want to catch this virus

Bevan Shields
Bevan Shields

I did not think I was going to die but it absolutely felt like the virus was trying hard to kill me. I've never been so sick, or scared.

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North America

US President Donald Trump.
Coronavirus pandemic

Trump, at war with states over lockdowns, calls on people to rise up

US President Donald Trump has urged his supporters in three states to "liberate" themselves from stay-at-home orders aimed at containing COVID-19.

Trump
US votes 2020

'Everything has shifted': How a pandemic is reshaping the US election

As a rule, if the economy is going well then US presidents get re-elected. If it's going badly, they lose. But will that hold in a global health emergency?

  • by Matthew Knott
The guidelines unveiled by the US President leaves execution in the hands of state leaders.
Editorial
Coronavirus pandemic

Now is the worst time to cut World Health Organisation funding

  • The Age's View
Trump's coronavirus response in tweets
Coronavirus pandemic

From 'Xi's doing a great job' to 'The WHO really blew it’: Trump's coronavirus response in tweets

  • by Chris Zappone and Mark Stehle
Security of coronavirus-related research has been a concern for the US since the beginning of the pandemic.
Coronavirus pandemic

Foreign hackers target US virus research: FBI

  • by Raphael Satter

Europe

Venice's famous Rialto Bridge is lit in the colours of the Italian flag.
Coronavirus pandemic

Europe is emerging from the pandemic with beds and ventilators to spare

  • by William Booth, Chico Harlan, James McAuley, Loveday Morris and Michael Birnbauman
Banksy follows stay-at-home orders and makes bathroom art during coronavirus crisis.
Coronavirus pandemic

Bathroom Banksy: Street-artist's lockdown work

  • by Paul Sandle
Murky plans in space: a Russian satellite launch in 2018.
Space

Russia carries out anti-satellite test

  • by Idrees Ali and Joey Roulette
Apology: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Coronavirus pandemic

EU apologises to Italy for being slow to offer help

  • by James Crisp
Pictured (L-R) Captain Michael King, Second Officer Shelley Kent, First Officer Ben Jenkins, First Officer Glen Oakey. The Qantas flight crew flew 150 Australians and thousands of kilograms of protective medical equipment from London to Melbourne.
Exclusive
Coronavirus pandemic

‘Eerily quiet’: Qantas pilot flies Australians home in near-empty skies

  • by Latika Bourke
Unaccompanied children refugees from the overcrowded migrant camps on the north Aegean Sea islands, Greece, walk towards the gates of the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens to travel to Luxembourg.
Immigration

Refugee children leave Greece to settle in Luxembourg

  • by Lefteris Papadimas
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Asia

Funeral home workers remove the body of a person suspected to have died from the coronavirus outbreak from a residential building in Wuhan in February.
Coronavirus pandemic

Virus epicentre Wuhan raises number of dead by 50 per cent

An official said the new figures were "due to the insufficiency in admission and treatment capability" at the early stages of the outbreak.

Thae Yong Ho, right, former North Korean diplomat reacts with a supporter after he was certain to secure victory in the parliamentary election in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday.
World elections

Gangnam smile: North Korean defector wins South Korea's swankiest seat

Thae Yong-ho was Pyongyang's deputy ambassador to the UK where he had managed secret funds for leader Kim Jong-un until he fled to the South in 2016.

  • by Hyonhee Shin
At least two dozen Rohingyan migrants died on the boat and many more boats are believed to remain adrift. Earlier this month Malaysian authorities released this picture of a boat carrying more than 200 Rohinyan asylum seekers that they intercepted.
Asylum seekers

Two dozen Rohingya die of starvation on drifting boat; 382 rescued

  • by Ruma Paul
Lee Nak-yon, a former prime minister and candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, celebrates after the election.
World elections

South Korea's coronavirus battle propels government to election win

  • by Hyonhee Shin
Military vehicles roll down as members of a Chinese military honor guard march during the parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing in 2019.
Nuclear disarmament

China may have secretly conducted low-level nuclear test blasts

  • by Jonathan Landay

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Brazil's Marine Corps soldiers from the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Radiological Defence division perform disinfection operations at tram stations under guard in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
Coronavirus pandemic

Jobs first: Bolsonaro fires popular health expert

Few global leaders have done more than Bolsonaro to play down the pandemic, which has killed nearly 2000 Brazilians.

  • by Lisandra Paraguassu
A Turkish Air Force warplane.
War

Refugee women killed in Turkish strikes on Kurdish group in Iraq

Convicted Australian drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury has been released from a Colombian jail.
Courts

Drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury released from Colombian prison

Waves of up to 5 metres slammed the coast of Wellington, NZ, on Wednesday.
Extreme weather

Massive waves slam Wellington's coast

A civil defence worker sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus in Baghdad.
Coronavirus pandemic

Iraq suspends Reuters for report saying coronavirus cases were understated

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discusses the government's COVID-19 response.
Coronavirus pandemic

Pay cut for NZ cabinet as opposition pushes for easing of lockdown

  • by Ben McKay and Thomas Coughlan
Expeditioners from Davis station haul a sled.
Coronavirus pandemic

Antarctic researchers are now isolating within isolation

  • by Aislinn Laing and Cassandra Garrison

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