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Exclusive: Planned $1 billion U.S. aid cut would hit Afghan security force funds: sources April 5, 2020
A planned $1 billion cut in U.S. aid to Afghanistan would come from funds for Afghan security forces, according to three U.S. sources, a step experts said would undercut both Kabul's ability to fight the Taliban and its leverage to negotiate a peace deal with them.
Spain's coronavirus death toll rises by 674 to 12,418 April 5, 2020
Spain's coronavirus death toll has risen by 674 to 12,418 in the last day, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
UK coronavirus deaths could reach 7,000 to 20,000: Ferguson April 5, 2020
UK deaths from the coronavirus could rise to between about 7,000 and 20,000 under measures taken to slow the spread of the virus, Neil Ferguson, a professor at Imperial College in London who has helped shape the government's response, said on Sunday.
Death at home: the unseen toll of Italy's coronavirus crisis April 5, 2020
It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father Alessandro, who was gripped by fever and struggling for breath.