An issue that is dividing policymakers attracted nearly 1,000 comments. Here are the best responses
Reported by FT.com 1 day ago.
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FT readers: Italy and the threat to eurozone unity
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‘Messi may go to MLS or China but not Inter’ – Rivaldo not convinced by Barcelona exit talk
Lionel Messi may end up leaving Barcelona for MLS or China at some point in the future, says Rivaldo, but the Argentine superstar is not expected to link up with Serie A giants Inter. Speculation regarding a move to Italy for the six-time Ballon d’Or winner has resurfaced. Inter have been linked with Messi on a regular basis down the years, with the club’s former president Massimo...
Reported by WorldNews 18 hours ago.
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Europe could fall, Italy warns as divided EU seeks coronavirus rescue deal
The European Union (EU) faces an existential threat if it cannot come together to combat the coronavirus crisis, Italy said on Thursday as the divided bloc sought to salvage talks on a rescue package to aid battered economies. A deal has so far proved elusive amid fraught discussions between the more fiscally conservative north and the indebted south, which has been hit hard by the pandemic and is pushing for unprecedented measures like issuing joint EU debt. Sixteen hours of talks between EU finance ministers on a half-a-trillion-euro package collapsed on Wednesday. They were due to resume at 1500...
Reported by WorldNews 18 hours ago.
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Messi dismisses Inter transfer and Ronaldinho bail rumours as ´fake news´
Barcelona star Lionel Messi has branded speculation linking him with moves to Inter and Newell’s Old Boys as “fake news”. Reports in Argentina, Spain and Italy in recent days have suggested Inter could launch an audacious bid to sign the six-time Ballon d’Or winner, with Barca said to be keen to speak with the Nerazzurri […]
The post Messi dismisses Inter transfer and Ronaldinho bail rumours as ´fake news´ appeared first on Soccer News. Reported by SoccerNews.com 15 hours ago.
The post Messi dismisses Inter transfer and Ronaldinho bail rumours as ´fake news´ appeared first on Soccer News. Reported by SoccerNews.com 15 hours ago.
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Roundup: Coronavirus cases reach 143,626 in Italy, pressure on hospitals decrease
ROME, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 18,279 lives in locked-down Italy, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries to 143,626 by Thursday, according to the latest data released by the country's Civil Protection Department. Thursday saw 610 new fatalities and 1,979 new recoveries, raising the total recoveries to 28,470. Addressing a televised press conference, Civil Protection Department Chief Angelo Borrelli said 1,615 new active infections were registered compared to Wednesday, bringing the nationwide total to 96,877...
Reported by WorldNews 18 hours ago.
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Spain, Italy set to extend lockdowns
Reported by IndiaTimes 23 hours ago.
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Italy during 17th century pandemic lockdown is a lesson for our times
What can we learn today from the experience of Florence in the 17th century?
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald 19 hours ago.
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Vietnam challenges China's monopoly on coronavirus diplomacy
HANOI: Vietnam is challenging China's dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump for a shipment of protective suits. China is looking to burnish its credentials as a responsible power by sharing expertise and donating masks and other protective equipment to countries seeing a surge in cases and to repair an image dented by the disease that originated there late last year. Vietnam, despite its lack of resources compared with its giant neighbour, has donated 550,000 face masks to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain, and 390,000 to neighbouring Cambodia and 340,000 to...
Reported by WorldNews 15 hours ago.
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The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic
DENVER (AP) — It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight to end another day’s monotonous forced isolation.
From California to Colorado to Georgia and New York, Americans are taking a moment each night at 8 p.m. to howl in a quickly spreading ritual that has become a wrenching response of a society cut off from one another by the coronavirus pandemic.
They howl to thank the nation’s health care workers and first responders for their selfless sacrifices, much like the balcony applause and singing in Italy and Spain. Others do it to reduce their pain, isolation and frustration. Some have other reasons, such as to show support for the homeless.
In Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis has encouraged residents to participate. Children who miss their classmates and backyard dogs join in, their own yowls punctuated by the occasional fireworks, horn blowing and bell ringing.
“There’s something very Western about howling that’s resonating in Colorado. The call-and-response aspect of it. Most people try it and love to hear the howl in return,” said Brice Maiurro, a poet, storyteller and activist who works at National Jewish Health.
The nightly howl is a primal affirmation that provides a moment’s bright spot each evening by declaring, collectively: We shall prevail, said Dr. Scott Cypers, director of Stress and Anxiety programs at the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It’s a way to take back some of the control that the pandemic-forced social isolation has forced everyone to give up, Cypers said.
“The virus’ impact is very different for everyone, and this... Reported by SeattlePI.com 19 hours ago.
From California to Colorado to Georgia and New York, Americans are taking a moment each night at 8 p.m. to howl in a quickly spreading ritual that has become a wrenching response of a society cut off from one another by the coronavirus pandemic.
They howl to thank the nation’s health care workers and first responders for their selfless sacrifices, much like the balcony applause and singing in Italy and Spain. Others do it to reduce their pain, isolation and frustration. Some have other reasons, such as to show support for the homeless.
In Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis has encouraged residents to participate. Children who miss their classmates and backyard dogs join in, their own yowls punctuated by the occasional fireworks, horn blowing and bell ringing.
“There’s something very Western about howling that’s resonating in Colorado. The call-and-response aspect of it. Most people try it and love to hear the howl in return,” said Brice Maiurro, a poet, storyteller and activist who works at National Jewish Health.
The nightly howl is a primal affirmation that provides a moment’s bright spot each evening by declaring, collectively: We shall prevail, said Dr. Scott Cypers, director of Stress and Anxiety programs at the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It’s a way to take back some of the control that the pandemic-forced social isolation has forced everyone to give up, Cypers said.
“The virus’ impact is very different for everyone, and this... Reported by SeattlePI.com 19 hours ago.
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COVID-19 impact: Real Madrid players accept pay cut up to 20 per cent
Real Madrid players have agreed to cut their salaries by as much as a fifth, the La Liga club announced on Wednesday, as Spanish football remains on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, Real said players and coaches from the side's football and basketball teams, as well as key directors, had voluntarily agreed to the reduction, of either 10 or 20 percent, "depending on the circumstances that may affect the closing of the current 2019/20 sports season".
Real didn't say what circumstances would affect the rate of salary cut, but Spanish media reported players will receive 10 percent less if the season is completed and 20 percent less if the current campaign is terminated. The cuts will shave between 28 million and 56 million euros ($30.4 million and $60.8 million) off Real's salary bill. It also means the club has avoided using the partial unemployment (ERTE) scheme that cut Barcelona and Atletico Madrid players' salaries by 70 percent.
La Liga has recommended clubs take advantage of the scheme, and both Sevilla and Espanyol have also put in a request to be included on the ERTE scheme. Over 14,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Spain, the second worst hit country from the virus after Italy, with 146,690 registered cases.
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Real didn't say what circumstances would affect the rate of salary cut, but Spanish media reported players will receive 10 percent less if the season is completed and 20 percent less if the current campaign is terminated. The cuts will shave between 28 million and 56 million euros ($30.4 million and $60.8 million) off Real's salary bill. It also means the club has avoided using the partial unemployment (ERTE) scheme that cut Barcelona and Atletico Madrid players' salaries by 70 percent.
La Liga has recommended clubs take advantage of the scheme, and both Sevilla and Espanyol have also put in a request to be included on the ERTE scheme. Over 14,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Spain, the second worst hit country from the virus after Italy, with 146,690 registered cases.
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Qatar & Italy: Example of friendship, human relationships in adversity
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Tribulations and crises show the authenticity of states and nations, test the credibility of their slogans, and show the s...
Reported by MENAFN.com 18 hours ago.
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AP PHOTOS: Spain's elderly suffer as virus tears safety nets
BARCELONA (AP) — The elderly of Barcelona’s working-class Poble Sec neighborhood, the generation who survived widespread hunger after the Spanish Civil War, started out vulnerable.
Drawn to Spain’s industrial heartland a generation ago, they relied in retirement on free lunches from neighborhood social centers. Many received medical care from the local clinic, where doctors and nurses made house calls. Social workers brought them groceries.
But the coronavirus pandemic has heightened their fragility, stripping away the safety nets that kept them fed and healthy and exposing them to a daily threat of infection that they know could kill them.
For two weeks, an Associated Press photographer accompanied Barcelona’s visiting health care workers and emergency medical personnel as they tended to Spain’s home-bound elderly.
“All the misery is coming to light,” said visiting nurse Laura Valdes after a day of house calls up and down the narrow stairwells of Poble Sec’s apartment blocks.
The autonomous region of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, ranks only second to Madrid in Spain’s official count of virus infections and deaths, with nearly 30,000 cases and more than 3,000 dead.
As in similarly hard-hit Italy, Spain’s elderly aren’t usually being tested for COVID-19. They also aren’t being admitted to hospital intensive care units, where coveted beds and breathing machines are prioritized for younger, healthier patients with a better chance of survival. Nationwide, only 3.4% of Spain's ICU patients are over 80.
As a result, Barcelona’s elderly are suffering at home, alone and more isolated than ever. Few know for sure if they have the virus, but the threat that they might catch it — even from the visiting medical teams they need — has... Reported by SeattlePI.com 17 hours ago.
Drawn to Spain’s industrial heartland a generation ago, they relied in retirement on free lunches from neighborhood social centers. Many received medical care from the local clinic, where doctors and nurses made house calls. Social workers brought them groceries.
But the coronavirus pandemic has heightened their fragility, stripping away the safety nets that kept them fed and healthy and exposing them to a daily threat of infection that they know could kill them.
For two weeks, an Associated Press photographer accompanied Barcelona’s visiting health care workers and emergency medical personnel as they tended to Spain’s home-bound elderly.
“All the misery is coming to light,” said visiting nurse Laura Valdes after a day of house calls up and down the narrow stairwells of Poble Sec’s apartment blocks.
The autonomous region of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, ranks only second to Madrid in Spain’s official count of virus infections and deaths, with nearly 30,000 cases and more than 3,000 dead.
As in similarly hard-hit Italy, Spain’s elderly aren’t usually being tested for COVID-19. They also aren’t being admitted to hospital intensive care units, where coveted beds and breathing machines are prioritized for younger, healthier patients with a better chance of survival. Nationwide, only 3.4% of Spain's ICU patients are over 80.
As a result, Barcelona’s elderly are suffering at home, alone and more isolated than ever. Few know for sure if they have the virus, but the threat that they might catch it — even from the visiting medical teams they need — has... Reported by SeattlePI.com 17 hours ago.
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Italy eyes lockdown extension to May 3
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was reportedly ready Friday to extend most measures of Italy's month-long lockdown until early May in order to avoid a second coronavirus wave.
Reported by IndiaTimes 16 hours ago.
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As Easter nears, virus deaths test Italian priest’s faith
CARENNO, Italy (AP) — The circle of contagion around the Rev. Angelo Riva couldn’t have been tighter. Within two weeks of sitting with his parents and a fellow priest at lunch, the 53-year-old Catholic priest was grieving the deaths of both his father and the colleague who assisted him at three mountain parishes above Lake […]
Reported by Seattle Times 16 hours ago.
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Italy’s Gualtieri: We will face battle over coronabonds
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Reported by FXstreet.com 16 hours ago.
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Coronavirus in Germany: How did Berlin win crucial time to build its defenses
The time Germany bought may have saved lives, scientists say. Its first outbreak of locally transmitted COVID-19 began earlier than Italy's, but Germany has had many fewer deaths
Reported by Haaretz 16 hours ago.
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Coronavirus | Spain's Covid-19 death toll curve flattening at last
Total deaths in Spain rose to 15,843 on Friday - the second highest in the world after Italy
Reported by Hindu 14 hours ago.
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Coronavirus | Spain's death toll curve flattening at last
Total deaths in Spain rose to 15,843 on Friday - the second highest in the world after Italy
Reported by Hindu 14 hours ago.
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The Arab doctors who have died on front lines of Italy's epidemic
Friends, patients and family members remember doctors who paid ultimate sacrifice during coronavirus outbreak.
Reported by Al Jazeera 12 hours ago.
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US COVID-19 Death Toll Breaches 16,600; New York Confirms More Cases Than Italy
Deaths in the United States due to coronavirus has topped 16,600 with more than 466,000 confirmed cases reported nationwide as of Thursday.
Reported by RTTNews 11 hours ago.
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