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  1. COVID-19: What's happening around the world

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    Asia reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including the first U.S. soldier to be infected, as outbreaks in Italy and Iran spread to more countries.

  2. Modi appeals for calm in India as citizenship protest death toll rises to 20

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeals for calm after days of clashes between Hindus and minority Muslims over a controversial citizenship law in some of the worst sectarian violence in the capital in decades.

  3. Sanders surge in crowded Democratic field echoes Trump's 2016 rise

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    Democrats in 2020 are going through the same sort of identity crisis that Republicans went through with Donald Trump in 2016: An outsider, openly contemptuous of the party machine and its direction, is facing a fractured field of rivals.

  4. Tokyo Olympic organizers, government take offensive on virus threat

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    Tokyo Olympic organizers and the Japanese government went on the offensive Wednesday after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral outbreak, with their fate probably decided in the next three months.

  5. Egyptian military funeral held for longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak

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    Egypt held a full-honours military funeral Wednesday for the country's former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for decades before he was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that swept much of the region.