voa60/2020-10-16

VOA60 World for Friday (Juma'a) Oct 16th, 2020

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1. VOA60 Duniya for Friday (Juma'a) Oct 16th, 2020
   1. Thailand: Thai police fired stinging liquid from water cannon at thousands of Thai protesters on Friday in the most violent escalation of three months of demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.
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   2. Russia: President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday that Russia and the United States extend the new START arms control treaty that expires in February for at least a year without imposing any conditions.
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   3. Belgium: European Union leaders regret Turkey's decision to send a natural gas exploration ship to contested waters in the Mediterranean, the bloc's chairman, Charles Michel, said on Friday, reiterating that the EU would consider its options in December.
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   4. Vietnam: Thirteen bodies were recovered from a landslide triggered by torrential rains that flooded part of central Vietnam, killed at least 36 people and left a dozen others missing since last weekend
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   5. Switzerland: Anti-viral medication remdesivir was found to have little or no effect on COVID-19 patients' length of hospital stay or chances of survival, according to a clinical trial by the World Health Organization.
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