Arab News - 2020-03-28

• British PM, minister test positive for virus as deaths surge in Europe
• The French connection — envoy traces long relationsh­ip with KSA
• Saudi Arabia raises more than SR15bn in bond sale
• TheRegiste­r
• Dr. Sami Mohammed Zidane
• Looming crisis of epic proportion­s
• 176,000 use Health Ministry’s app for COVID-19 consultati­ons
• Education Ministry takes on distance learning of 6m students in 10 days
• The forgotten history of France’s pioneering friendship with Jeddah
• Prevention is better than cure and we all have a part to play
• In Iraq, deadly coronaviru­s terrif ies even doctors hardened by conf lict
• As world locks down, Qatari constructi­on presses ahead
• Artist masks spread healthy message in virus-hit Gaza
• Lebanon’s medics describe ‘horror movie’ conditions
• Yemenis meet truce calls with both hope and skepticism
• Kabul, Taliban will meet to plan prisoner swap
• Philippine­s military chief tests positive for novel coronaviru­s
• COVID-19 poses a huge challenge for Europe
• Others must learn from Italy’s deficienci­es
• Syrian war, coronaviru­s and the aftermath
• With US preoccupie­d and Europe weak, China begins to advance
• The pandemic election in the US
• A virtual G20 summit — but it offered genuine reassuranc­e
• Saudi Arabia denies contact with Russia over OPEC+ deal
• China’s booming mask producers are ‘printing money’
• Olympics delay deals setback to Samsung’s Japanese plans
• Are gun shops ‘essential’ businesses during a pandemic?
• Could Tokyo 2020 delay beat the heat?
• ‘Liverpool spirits are high’ despite virus lockdown
• The fabric of the Middle East
• Meet Amina Atiq: British-Yemeni activist and poet

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