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Stories for February 15th 2020
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Bolsonaro celebrates crime index falls to its lowest level in more than a decade
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro celebrated Friday after a crime index showed homicides fell to their lowest level in more than a decade during the first year of his term.
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 09:04 UTC
Venezuelan government confirms arrest of an uncle of Guaidó on suspicion of smuggling “dangerous material”
A top Venezuelan government official has confirmed that the uncle of opposition leader Juan Guaidó is being held on suspicion of smuggling “dangerous material” into the country.
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:58 UTC
Mystery virus Yara, with genes never seen before, uncovered in Brazil
A new, mystery virus, with genes never seen before in any life form, has been uncovered in Brazil, scientists say. The Yaravirus, which was named after Yara, a mythological Brazilian water goddess, was found in Lake Pampulha, an artificial lagoon in the city of Belo Horizonte, according to a new research paper on BioRxiv.
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:48 UTC
Putin denies gay marriage, “as long as I am president, there will be dad and mum”
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin. He made clear he would not allow the traditional notion of mother and father to be subverted by what he called “parent number 1” and “parent number 2”.
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:31 UTC
COVID-19 death toll surges past 1.500 and 66.000 infected
The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic surged past 1,500 on Saturday after 139 more people died in Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak. The province's health commission also reported 2,420 new cases of the COVID-19 strain, about half the number from the previous day.
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:20 UTC
Manchester City banned from EU competition and fined for breaching financial fair play rules; the club will appeal
English champions Manchester City have been banned from European competition for the next two seasons and fined 30 million Euros by European soccer's governing body UEFA after an investigation into alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.
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Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 07:54 UTC
Trump launches the aircraft trade dispute with the European Union
The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on Brussels in a nearly 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies.
