Summary: Country of the Week: Somalia
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Summary: US is starting to use landmines in all conflicts again. Pray for the civilians and especially the children who encounter landmines.
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Summary: The US is expanding the travel ban to include citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar in addition to Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea. The bolded countries are on the OpenDoor's World Watch List (of the top 50 countries where Christians face the worst persecution).
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Summary: The US is rolling back clean water regulations.
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Summary: Flint still has drinking water problems, even before clean water regulations rollbacks.
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Summary: Coronavirus: China and 22 other countries affected. WHO declared a global health emergency. In the province of origin, there's 60 million people on lock-down.
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Summary: Coronavirus: Multiple countries closing borders to visitors who have been to China. WHO says it limits research cooporation, hurts economies, & hinders medical supply chains. 13,000 infected, including 304 dead. Lunar New Year extended from Jan. 30 (original end date) to Feb. 13. Weddings banned in China to limit public gatherings.
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Summary: Coronavirus: The US is quarantining those returning from China.
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Summary: Coronavirus: Hong Kong medical staff is threatening to strike since border with China isn't closed. Medical workers divided into clean teams and dirty teams. The dirty teams are to treat all suspected virus cases but stay in quarantine themselves for 4-6 weeks and the clean teams are to treat people not suspect of having the virus.
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Summary: Coronavirus: There are over 150 virus cases outside of China. US health officials state that there is a low risk to US overall. In fact, there is a higher risk of contracting and dying from the flu in the US than the coronavirus at this time.
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