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The Positive Side Of COVID-19 2 Jun 2020
Chinese experts share COVID-19 response experience with Uganda, South Sudan – People’s Daily Online 24 May 2020
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning – Brain Pickings 24 May 2020
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Coronavirus: Trial of potential treatment by Gilead ahead of schedule, says researcher 25 Apr 2020
Five weeks into lockdown and north begins to follow WHO guidance with Covid-19 contact tracing – The Irish News 24 Apr 2020
Germany Produces Record Solar Power as Skies Clear in Lockdown | Time 21 Apr 2020
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Cuba will distribute PREVENGOVIR, new medication to prevent Covid-19 13 Apr 2020
Vietnam Sends Aid, Protective Suits to US To Fight COVID-19 | News | teleSUR English 13 Apr 2020
Why Does UK Ignore WHO Recommendations And COVID-19 Data? | Science 2.0 12 Apr 2020
Iran Begins Production of Antibody-Based Rapid Detection Tests | News | teleSUR English 11 Apr 2020
No Other Leader Politicizes Pandemic Briefings Like Trump 11 Apr 2020
Google and Apple team up for contact tracing COVID-19 app – ABC News 11 Apr 2020
Northern Ireland and Republic sign memorandum of understanding on coronavirus cooperation – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk 9 Apr 2020
US accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ by blocking Iran’s $5bn IMF coronavirus loan – Middle East Monitor 8 Apr 2020
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Outbreak could de-dollarize global economy – Chinadaily.com.cn 30 Mar 2020
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China’s Xi Jinping offers Trump help in fighting coronavirus as US faces wave of new patients – World News 27 Mar 2020
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Cuba’s Coronavirus Response Is Putting Other Countries to Shame 24 Mar 2020
It’s Not Socialism. It’s Another Mega Wealth Transfer. – Craig Murray 23 Mar 2020
We are all Stoics now | The Vineyard of the Saker 22 Mar 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland – track the spread in these charts and maps – The Courier 22 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: Postcards bring lifeline and cheer | HeraldScotland 21 Mar 2020
Cuban drug could save thousands of lives in coronavirus pandemic | Morning Star 17 Mar 2020
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US Intelligence Community Sees Crypto As a Threat to the Greenback 16 Feb 2020
Sinn Fein’s historic breakthrough is a long-overdue rejection of the status quo and a cosy two-party system — RT Op-ed 11 Feb 2020
SNP MP Joanna Cherry says PM must be ‘put on notice’ over indyref2 | The National 10 Feb 2020
Fireflies Have a Mating Problem: The Lights Are Always On – The New York Times 5 Feb 2020
Irish unity has taken on a new dynamic as result of Brexit – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk 3 Feb 2020
Anglo Celt – Border protests as Brexit comes to pass 2 Feb 2020
Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration 17 Jan 2020
Westminster Cannot Block Scottish Independence – Craig Murray 15 Jan 2020
Oscar nominations 2020: The full list | The Independent 14 Jan 2020
Former minister says he is ‘100% certain’ Scotland will go independent | Latest Brexit news and top stories | The New European 14 Jan 2020
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Artwork Discovered in Vienna Cathedral’s Gift Shop May Be the Work of German Renaissance Master Albrecht Dürer | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine 14 Jan 2020
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Call for Yes supporters to brave weather for Glasgow AUOB march | The National 11 Jan 2020
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Yuan set to be strong with or without a trade deal – Global Times 10 Jan 2020
Clive Lewis says Labour must not oppose indyref2 | The National 10 Jan 2020
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TESS Finds a Planet That Orbits Two Stars – Universe Today 10 Jan 2020
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NASA just captured a new ultra-detailed image of the Milky Way galaxy 10 Jan 2020
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Books In Defence of Julian Assange, edited by Tariq Ali and Margaret Kunstler | Morning Star 9 Jan 2020
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Iran was always going to retaliate – but that doesn’t mean it wants all-out war | The Independent 8 Jan 2020
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Pentagon Rules Out Striking Iranian Cultural Sites, Contradicting Trump – The New York Times 8 Jan 2020
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NASA planet hunter finds its first earth-size habitable-zone world 8 Jan 2020
Melissa Roy becomes first South Asian woman to visit all 193 countries – Insider 8 Jan 2020
Labour MP says Scotland ‘likely’ to vote Yes in future independence referendum | The National 7 Jan 2020
Cultural heritage officials condemn Trump’s threats against Iranian sites | The Art Newspaper 7 Jan 2020
No Justice, No Peace | Chris Knapp | Granta Magazine 7 Jan 2020
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Sustainable travel goals for 2020 – Lonely Planet Video 7 Jan 2020
William Blake review | Tate Britain | Art in London 6 Jan 2020
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The More Loving One: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads W.H. Auden’s Sublime Ode to Our Unrequited Love for the Universe – Brain Pickings 6 Jan 2020
Happy Perihelion Day! Earth Is Closest to the Sun Today | Space 6 Jan 2020
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Hollywood actor Brian Cox calls for second Scottish independence referendum – LBC News 6 Jan 2020
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Afghanistan: a Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies – CounterPunch.org 11 Dec 2019
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