GPA Project Headlines April 1-14, 2020

GLOBAL
"Global actors might use the coronavirus to reshape the world without a war"--Belarus President

Can We Trust The WHO?
LOCK STEP: This is No Futuristic Scenario
Reactions to the Corona Virus Hint of a Wider Agenda
Searching for Truth in What We are being Told About Covid-19
A New World Is Being Born: What Will It be?
A Viral Pandemic or A Crime Scene?
The Hunt for Patient Zero
All Roads Lead to Dark Winter

Pandemic threatens US with economic crisis, loss of role of world leader, expert says
Blaming China for the coronavirus will come back to haunt the West
Coronavirus: Mental health incidents rising during UK lockdown, police say
Corona – The Aftermath

Trump halts WHO funding as world scrambles to contain coronavirus pandemic

US accused of 'modern piracy' after diversion of masks meant for Europe
US method of sourcing protective gear baffling world amid coronavirus crisis
Mossad sneaking COVID-19 medical stocks - ordered by others - into Israel: Senior official
Researchers warn the COVID-19 lockdown will take its own toll on health
US food workers are in danger. That threatens all of us
US passes virus buck to WHO amid own failure

US sees WHO as interim target, main attack is due on China — lawmaker

Wimbledon cancelled first time since 1945
US coronavirus deaths may be lower than feared, new data suggests
Coronavirus: Donald Trump speaks of mutiny as New York’s Andrew Cuomo says president is not a king
Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system
Coronavirus latest: US seeks to ‘fundamentally change’ World Health Organisation
Vancouver protesters call coronavirus fake news and say distancing rule should be defied, appalling health authorities
Trump working on plan to lift coronavirus restrictions, asserts ‘total authority’ over state governments
Coronavirus: in rebuff to Donald Trump, US states team up to plan reopening economy
Google releases location data to show if coronavirus lockdowns working in 131 countries
Coronavirus lockdowns must last six weeks to bring pandemic under control: researchers

Three COVID-19 vaccines approved for clinical trials: China

Chinese military scientists hope to test coronavirus vaccine abroad
Chinese firms accelerate production of hydroxychloroquine, other APIs to meet global needs
China has no intention to take over US role
Chinese ventilator makers desperate for parts as global demand for machines hits 1 million

Covid-19 could be under control by end of April, China’s top respiratory expert says

Why China is not responsible for pandemic

Huami Partnered with Nanshan Zhong's Team to Combat COVID-19 Coronavirus on a Joint Lab

Wuhan easing quarantine after two-month long lockdown

China rolls out the Health Silk Road

New system of testing can identify those with immunity to COVID-19, says watchdog chief

Russian labs to start making COVID-19 antibody tests within ten days

Putin orders to consider conversion of enterprises to produce medical articles
Russian scientists ready to develop coronavirus cure from survivors’ blood in 30 days
Coronavirus vaccine research conducted by 7 scientific centers in Russia — minister

Food stock for at least two months created in Russia

Russian military disinfects 20 retirement homes in Lombardy, says ministry

Russia to boost medical devices production 25-fold in May

Medical equipment enterprises present their products at Hainan exhibition

Russia testing 8 existing and 22 new drugs to treat COVID-19, says deputy PM

Lavrov castigates attempts to make China pay reparations for COVID-19 damages

UN Security Council to discuss coronavirus pandemic for first time, says source

Italian professor repeats warning coronavirus may have spread outside China last year

FINANCIAL

Cornonavirus: Global economic downturn in 2020 likely to be worst since Great Depression, IMF says

World at risk of second Great Depression due to coronavirus, says Chinese Central Bank
Coronavirus runs roughshod over debt-laden belt and road projects
Mexico stops brewing Corona beer, deemed non-essential in pandemic

Corona virus likely ended record US job growth in March

China's Hainan offers more than 30,000 jobs to foreign specialists
China-backed AIIB proposes $5 billion funding line for coronavirus crisis
Hainan's Sanya innovation cluster gains investment worth more than $5 bln in 2019

What is slowing America’s US$2.2 trillion coronavirus aid? A 60-year-old computer language

Coronavirus: in rebuff to Donald Trump, US states team up to plan reopening economy
Weimar America, Here We Come! Virus Hysteria Adds $10 Trillion to the National Debt
US government agrees on $25bn bailout for airlines as pandemic halts travel

Most acute phase of COVID-19 influence on global economy unlikely to exceed half a year

ENERGY 

In the “Oil War”, Washington Blinks First to Survive

Trump touts 'great' Saudi-Russia oil deal to halt price rout, but details unclear

US senators threaten to review Saudi ties as oil price war endangers US producers

OPEC+ is looking to cut is 20 mln barrels a day, says Trump

OPEC+ deal helps avoid market chaos — Kremlin

Natural reduction in US oil production cannot be counted as OPEC+ cut, says Kremlin

Brent oil price falls below $30 per barrel, first time since April 3

Russian, US energy ministries note necessity to respond to challenges in energy sector

Pandemic can have more serious consequences than 2008 crisis, says Russian Energy Minister

Prospective Nord Stream 2 pipe layer en route to Spain

US Secretary of Energy Brouillette praises new OPEC+ agreement as ‘historic deal’

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

Plans to seize territories of other planets harm international cooperation, says Roscosmos

Head of Russia’s Accounts Chamber predicts technological boom due to crisis
West opposes Russia’s proposal in UN General Assembly to reject sanctions
A Few Recent Political Developments Which Should Not Go Unnoticed

The Public Bears the Burden of Growing Military Expenditure 
How Organized Crime is Spreading COVID 19 and Raking in Cash

The Yemeni Tragedy Beyond the Pale of International Law
Ansarullah says Saudi-led coalition’s ceasefire merely aimed at misleading world
Saudi Arabia blocks Turkish state media outlets

Iraqi parties require PM-designate to end US-led military presence: MP

Iran to give strongest response to US if its security at stake: Top general
Luxembourg court officially turns down US request to seize Iranian assets

Iraq's PMU warns Trump not to take any hostile action against Iraqis, resistance groups

Russia presents demarche to US over taking its children to US without notification
US authorities taking effort to ensure return of Russian schoolchildren — embassy 

Area of Chernobyl wildfire triples in size

Chernobyl wildfire eliminated, smoldering to cease in couple of days

US Air Force suicides soar by 40% in 2019
US forces preparing to withdraw from base west of Baghdad