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US sees 2.1M weekly jobless claims; lowest amid virus

ANKARA, 28 May 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: More than 2.1 million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the novel coronavirus continues to hammer the US economy, the Labor Department said Thursday. A total of 2.12 million jobless claims were filed, representing a week-on-week fall of 323,000. It is the lowest figure recorded since the beginning of the pandemic in mid-March. The 10-week total for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic now tops 40.8 million. Although the pandemic has caused the biggest loss in US history, the figures indicate losses are slowing for an eighth straight week after a peak of 6.9 million in late March, as states begin the process of reopening economies at various levels. Many businesses have been shuttered or have had greatly reduced activity as states enforced stay-at-home

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Turkish president reiterates support for Libyan gov't

ANKARA, 10 June 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: The Turkish president on Tuesday reiterated his country's support for the Libyan government in its fight against renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar. The descendants of Libya's anti-colonial hero "Lion of the Desert" Omar Mukhtar defeated at the gates of Tripoli "legionaries" sent from all over the world by "those would try to occupy" the country, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a press conference following a roughly three-hour Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara. “We will stand next to our Libyan brothers, not the putschists, not the imperialists,” Erdogan said, referring to Haftar and his supporters. Erdogan underlined that in the coming period, Ankara would “continue to frustrate both domestic and foreign coup enthusiasts and lovers of terrorist

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Bangladesh arrests more than 170 Rohingya after leader’s murder

COX’S BAZAR, 02 Nov 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: Bangladesh police have arrested 172 Rohingya in recent weeks after a crackdown sparked by the brutal murder of a prominent community leader, the force said Monday. Mohib Ullah was shot dead in late September in a refugee camp near the port city of Cox’s Bazar, in a region home to over 700,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority who fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar. The 48-year-old teacher was a respected advocate for the community but in the weeks before his assassination he had been the target of death threats from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) militant group. Among those arrested in the weeks since were 10 suspected of involvement in the killing, said Naimul Haque, commander of the elite Armed Police Battalion (APB). “Our drives against

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