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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the window of opportunity to contain wider worldwide spread of the COVID-19 epidemic is narrowing, urging the international community to act quickly before it completely closes.
"The window of opportunity (to contain the outbreak) may be closing," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a daily briefing.
Tedros believed that "the window of opportunity is still there." He called on the international community, including the financing, to act quickly to control the epidemic before the window closes completely.
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MOSCOW -- Russia hopes to avoid the "worst scenario" in the situation in Syria's Idlib, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
"The situation in Idlib is really very alarming and it causes deep concern. This situation is always a topic of discussion between the Russian and Turkish sides," Peskov told reporters at a daily briefing.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said on Friday that the rejection of his senatorial candidacy by Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal was an "attack on democracy."
"We complied with all the requirements. Afterwards, two former members of the electoral agency informed me that, by instruction of the United States embassy, they did not approve the legality (of the candidacy)," Morales said at a press conference in Buenos Aires.
"They forced me not to be a candidate in these elections. I have accepted it; I am not a candidate. I accept it all for Bolivia," he said.
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TEHRAN -- Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnaser Hemmati said that a decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force to blacklist the Islamic Republic will not affect the country's foreign trade, Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.
He called the measure a "political and non-technical behavior."
"The performance of the CBI over the past year has given confidence to the Iranians that such incidents will not create a problem for Iran's foreign trade and the stability of the (foreign) exchange rate," Hemmati was quoted as saying. Enditem
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