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N'Djamena (AFP) - Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has said his country's troops, who have been deployed to fight jihadists in the Lake Chad region and the Sahel, will no longer take part in military operations outside national borders. On Thursday, the armed forces said they had wound up an operation against Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region, saying 52 troops had been lost and a thousand jihadists killed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34y4fK3 via Latest News

The paper, from the UK's University of Warwick, says the economic benefit is worth the health risk, since young people are less vulnerable anyway. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JU2q0A via Latest News

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Kelsey Pierce, a musician and songwriter in New York City, had always wanted to foster a dog with her roommate, Allyson Backus, but because of their busy schedules it was never a real possibility. Since all of New York is currently on a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic, the pair were finally able to take on a furry friend.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VgZXCA via Latest News

Oil producers in the OPEC+ group, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, were expected to pressure Mexico on Friday to seal an accord for a collective cut in output of 10 million barrels per day, before asking other nations for a further 5 million bpd of cuts. The United States has encouraged global cooperation to bolster an oil market that collapsed as the coronavirus pandemic accelerated in March and producers resorted to a price war after failing to agree on how to prop up prices. Oil prices tumbled on Thursday despite OPEC+ nearing agreement as the lockdowns ordered across the world sucked life out of the global economy, and traders reckoned that even a combined reduction of 15 million bpd would be too little to stabilise the market. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3ebrnlZ via Latest News

Photos emerge of workers in hazmat outfits stacking coffins in a mass grave in New York City. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wynM0w via Latest News

Pentagon leaders anticipate that the coronavirus may strike more Navy ships at sea after an outbreak aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific infected more than 400 sailors, a top general said Thursday. Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said one member of the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was hospitalized Thursday in intensive care on Guam, where the carrier has been docked for more than a week. “It’s not a good idea to think that the Teddy Roosevelt is a one-of-a-kind issue,” Hyten told a Pentagon news conference. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39WsfaS via Latest News

Surgeon General Jerome Adams most of the U.S. won't be able to open by May 1 and when normal activities do resume it will be "place by place, bit by bit." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JVk0kO via Latest News

Political and physical divisions between Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have induced two very different responses to the coronavirus pandemic, with a strict lockdown in the first and crowds milling about freely in the second. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which has 250 recorded cases of the COVID-19 lung disease, a lockdown on public life was swiftly imposed - Bethlehem was sealed off after the first outbreak in March and a state of emergency declared. Forty km (25 miles) apart and separated by Israel, the West Bank and Gaza have no direct link between them. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XpAmdp via Latest News

(Bloomberg) -- Italy and Spain are preparing for several more weeks under lockdown as volatile coronavirus infection rates prevent Europe’s governments from easing curbs on public life.Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, whose country has reported the most virus-linked deaths worldwide, is leaning toward an extension to early May, though a small number of businesses may be allowed to reopen. Spain prolonged a state of emergency until April 25 and the U.K. also is likely to extend restrictions.German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined Spain and Italy on Thursday in upholding curbs on people’s movement and face-to-face contacts, saying progress in defeating the pandemic is “fragile” and it’s too early to relent. In a plea echoed elsewhere in Europe, she called on Germans to abide by the measures over the long Easter weekend.“We must stay focused,” she said after a cabinet meeting.As the pandemic maintains its grip on Europe, policy makers are caught between the urgent need to restart bat...

Some low-income Americans who were not required to file taxes in 2018 or 2019 can work with the IRS to get their coronavirus relief payments faster. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Rpab2E via Latest News

The sailor is a member of the crew of the carrier Theodore Roosevelt, which reported its first cases of COVID-19 on March 24. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39SDn8x via Latest News

Trump doesn't want the states asking Washington for help, but his administration is seizing medical orders from providers. Why? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JSX7hJ via Latest News

The United States announced on Friday a 10 million-dollar reward for "any information on the activities, networks and associates" of Muhammad Kawtharani, a Lebanese Hezbollah commander accused of playing a key role in coordinating pro-Iran groups in Iraq. Kawtharani is a senior official of the Lebanese Shiite movement in Iraq, "and has taken over some of the political coordination of Iran-aligned paramilitary groups formerly organized by Qassim Suleimani," the US State Department said in a statement. Suleimani, a powerful leader of the Revolutionary Guard, the ideological army of Tehran, was killed in early January in an American strike targeting him in Baghdad. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VhqyQ8 via Latest News

The CDC gathered data on those who were hospitalized from COVID-19 in 14 states from March 1-30, in efforts to get a clearer picture of those infected who needed the most serious medical care. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3b0ytYz via Latest News

Strict social distancing measures have helped Germany to slightly slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, giving cautious hope some of the restrictions could be eased after Easter. With almost 110,000 cases and 2,107 deaths, Germany has weathered the pandemic better than European neighbours such as Italy and France. "I can say that the latest numbers on the spread of the virus give reason for cautious hope," Merkel said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3a0ibhd via Latest News

Health officials say the actual number of people dying from COVID-19 in New York City is likely far higher than the official daily death tolls show. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ViQJ8P via Latest News

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"My physician father had warned me: 'You better not get put on a ventilator. People don't come back from that,'" David Lat wrote in an op-ed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Vhw8lh via Latest News