COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 609,516 (+4.62%) Spain 174,060 (+2.33%) Italy 162,488 (+1.86%) France 143,303 (+3.94%) Germany 132,210 (+1.64%) UK 94,845 (+5.89%) China 83,351 (+0.06%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 557,590 (+5.20%) Spain 166,831 (+0.49%) Italy 156,363 (+2.69%) France 133,670 (+2.25%) Germany 127,854 (+1.91%) UK 85,208 (+6.66%) China 83,135 (+0.01%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 170 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 245,573 (+13.31%) Italy 115,242 (+4.22%) Spain 112,065 (+7.63%) Germany 84,794 (+8.74%) China 82,464 (+0.08%) France 59,929 (+3.75%) Iran 50,468 (+6.04%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 170 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 143,025 (+14.71%) Italy 97,689 (+5.64%) China 82,152 (+0.11%) Spain 80,110 (+9.39%) Germany 62,435 (+8.22%) France 40,723 (+6.87%) Iran 38,309 (+8.19%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 160 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: China 81,558 (+0.13%) Italy 63,927 (+8.10%) US 46,450 (+31.87%) Spain 35,212 (+17.73%) Germany 29,056 (+16.82%) Iran 23,049 (+6.52%) France 20,142 (+23.98%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 150 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: China 81,199 (+0.07%) Italy 41,035 (+14.90%) Iran 18,407 (+6.02%) Spain 18,077 (+22.40%) Germany 15,320 (+24.28%) US 14,250 (+51.35%) France 11,010 (+21.60%) ...
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NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/98db0afa-480f-45ba-8f7e-c20d1499babb.png"] Shock and Song Late Saturday, dozens of people in a small bar in Paris began counting down to midnight. Then the unthinkable happened. The establishment, like all "non-essential" businesses in the country, closed its doors – until when, no one is sure. "It's eerie,"...
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COVID-19 Update Of the 146 nations worldwide with confirmed cases of the coronavirus, here are the Top 10: China 80,976 Italy 17,660 Iran 12,729 South Korea 8,086 Spain 6,023 Germany 4,174 France 3,667 United States 2,177 Switzerland 1,359 United Kingdom 1,143 NEED TO KNOW FRANCE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d78d9fd2-f0df-4e59-9bd4-334bffdc4974.png"] En Garde In France,...
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NEED TO KNOW EUROPE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/f9c83d42-7d43-4e2f-a6d6-f7bf04744b7d.png"] Change the Drain Northern European populations are growing older, jeopardizing growth in the continent’s economic powerhouses. Young Southern Europeans are emigrating abroad, fleeing their basket-case economies when their energy and skills are arguably needed more than ever. One would think the two sides could...
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NEED TO KNOW ITALY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/13ef7d88-e231-4aaa-9970-c3480223c0d5.png"] A Perfect Storm When fiscal conservatives fret about budget deficits and slow economic growth, their fears are rooted in the unknown. What might happen if a crisis strikes at the exact moment when government spending is already high, and the economy is teetering...
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NEED TO KNOW SLOVAKIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/def5a447-d17d-4b18-8656-a0934b7c83eb.png"] Burden of Choice Slovak right-wing political party leader Marian Kotleba is facing charges of hate crimes that could land him in jail for as long as eight years. He has called the Roma community “parasites,” marched in the street in Nazi uniform and...
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NEED TO KNOW EASTERN EUROPE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ddbd2c82-2ca6-4014-b1ec-624b21d6be95.png"] Skepticism of Liberty Judging by the success of so-called “illiberal,” populist governments in Hungary, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, some Americans might wonder what went wrong as these countries transitioned away from communism in the years after the Berlin Wall fell...
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NEED TO KNOW ROMANIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9aaceeea-9490-44fc-a4ad-151c831adffc.png"] Losing Hope Bucharest is supposedly the Paris of the East. Citing the French influence on the Romanian capital’s Beaux-Arts architecture, the Daily Beast recommended a “flânerie,” or aimless walk, through the city to experience a “surreal sense of dislocation” between the City of Light...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8c238c0e-e370-4880-bc53-0ac24ba71887.png"] Details JPMorgan Chase recently purchased a second building in Paris for hundreds of employees moving from London to the French capital due to Britain’s exit from the European Union at the end of the month. As the Financial Times reported, the new...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/590fa22c-cb98-46d1-92e0-b6539b2a1173.png"] An Easy Puzzle Winston Churchill famously described Russia as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” The New York Times recently alluded to that quip in a review of books that aim to explain modern Russia to Western readers. Observers had little...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW POLAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7b585fc6-d6c4-4f4e-a14a-33fe8d729c1c.png"] History Today Polish President Andrzej Duda might skip the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on January 23. Duda’s pique stems from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comments about Poles collaborating with Nazi Germany, the Jerusalem Post reported, specifically Putin’s description of Poland’s ambassador in Berlin...
Read full story →PAST AND FUTURE WORLD [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dce47e18-e5d0-45e9-b34c-579ae97d703b.png"] Unfinished Stories As 2019 comes to a close, and with it, a decade, we at DailyChatter are taking a look back at a few select issues and events – by no means exhaustive – that made headlines over the past decade and will...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW UKRAINE & RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/379cac1a-a8c8-4a3c-a72a-ecfbb043e9d7.png"] Frozen Conflict During his recent annual marathon press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said peace in Ukraine would only come with dialogue. It’s hard to talk, however, when one side revises history. Foreign Affairs detailed Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and...
Read full story →Dear Readers, Many of you often ask us, why can’t you offer more positive news? Well, today, we take a small step toward redressing that imbalance with a story from Greece, which over the past five years has played host to hundreds of thousands of...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW FRANCE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/058f2f5f-34dd-4386-a154-c3f09ac353e9.png"] Bah Humbug A shopkeeper decorated his Paris neighborhood with giant teddy bears recently – at cafes, metro stations, even on bicycles. Most Parisians, including the mayor, applauded the idea, saying it brought a smile to people’s faces, the Local reported. That’s the sort of...
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