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Stories for January 21st 2020
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:58 UTC
Johnson hosts summit with African leaders to boost trade and pledges fairer migration
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told African leaders on Monday that Britain would be more open to migrants from their continent after Brexit as he hosted a summit intended to boost trading ties.
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:51 UTC
European top clubs destabilizing effects, warns La Liga president
La Liga president Javier Tebas has warned Europe's top clubs of the destabilizing effect seeking further riches through a revamped Champions League or FIFA's new Club World Cup will have on national leagues.
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:43 UTC
New Coronavirus strain human-to-human transmission confirmed; fears for Chinese New Year celebrations
A SARS-like virus that has spread across China and reached three other Asian nations is contagious between humans, a government expert said, and the World Health Organization announced that a key emergency committee would meet this week to discuss the infections. The news came as Wuhan health authorities reported on Tuesday that a fourth person had died of the coronavirus.
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:34 UTC
More than 470 million currently unemployed or underemployed, warns UN
More than 470 million people worldwide are currently unemployed or underemployed, the UN said on Monday, warning that a lack of access to decent jobs was contributing to social unrest. The global unemployment rate has remained relatively stable over much of the past decade, according to the UN's International Labour Organization.
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:25 UTC
Panama begins exhuming a mass grave from the 1989 invasion by the US
Authorities in Panama on Monday began exhuming a mass grave containing the remains of unknown civilians killed during the 1989 US invasion of the Central American country. The move follows a decades-long effort by families of missing people to identify remains buried in a common grave in the capital's Jardin de Paz cemetery.
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:18 UTC
Brazil's Embraer studying to launch a turboprop aircraft to compete with Franco-Italian ATR
Brazilian planemaker Embraer is in the advanced stages of studying the launch of a new turboprop aircraft to be developed through a venture it is planning with Boeing, subject to necessary approvals, a top executive said on Monday.
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Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:11 UTC
Venetians in rowing boats protest against giant cruise ships “making waves”
Hundreds of people in small rowing boats protested in front of Venice's St Mark's Square over the weekend to denounce what they say is a proliferation of motor boats that have crowded the waters of the lagoon city.
