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Italy's leaders row over ending lockdown

The head of Milan's economically vital Lombardy region began waging a lonely campaign Thursday to get Italy to end its virus lockdown and reopen for business. "Many other European countries are already beginning to reopen. We need to immediately start thinking about our future." Attilo...

In Syria, online salsa class sidesteps lockdown gloom

Inside her living room in the Syrian capital, Aline Srouji steps forward and backward at a near-dizzying pace, demonstrating to her students locked down at home how to Salsa. Performing to a phone camera across the room, the 35-year-old records a lesson she will share on social media...

Sudan police fire teargas at Bashir supporters: witnesses

Sudanese police fired teargas Thursday at backers of ousted president Omar al-Bashir who demonstrated outside the army command's headquarters in Khartoum, demanding the fall of the transitional government, witnesses said. The protesters -- who lambasted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's...

Displaced Syrians go home to ruins rather than risk virus

His home in volatile northwest Syria may have been destroyed, but Hassan Khraiby decided returning was better than risking his 10 children catch the coronavirus in a packed displacement camp. "We were scared the coronavirus might spread because of the severe overcrowding," 45-year-old...