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After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus
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How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spread

Behind the Curve

How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spread

Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence.

After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus

News Analysis

After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus

By Sabrina Tavernise, Frances Robles and Louis Keene

As Covid-19 cases surge, it is clear many governors underestimated the coronavirus and rushed to reopen before their states were ready.

The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police

The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police

By Kim Barker

Alex Kueng is one of four former officers accused of crimes in the killing of Mr. Floyd, which happened on his third shift. His decision to join the force had frayed friendships.

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43% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes

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Noah Donohoe: Body discovered in storm drain – ‘one of the most unusual missing persons enquiries I have ever dealt with’ – Supt. Muir Clark

Your weekly news roundup from the Belfast News Letter
 
 
     
   
     
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A round up of the most popular news stories this week.

 
     
  Noah Donohoe: Body discovered in storm drain – 'one of the most unusual missing persons enquiries I have ever dealt with' – Supt. Muir Clark  
     
  The PSNI believe a body discovered in a storm drain complex in north Belfast on Saturday morning to be that of missing 14 year-old Belfast boy, Noah Donohoe.  
     
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Noah Donohoe: Body discovered in north Belfast believed to be missing 14 year-old
 
The PSNI believe a body discovered in north Belfast on Saturday morning to be that of missing 14 year-old Belfast boy, Noah Donohoe.
 
     
 
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Sam McBride: Is an economy that begs us to spend on what we don't need to save jobs sustainable?
 
Much has been written about 'revenge shopping' – the idea that once the lockdown is lifted there will be a surge of pent-up demand from consumers with an insatiable demand to return to, and perhaps exceed, the rampant consumerism of the pre-pandemic world.
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: Unionists ought to be able to connect with such a fierce critic of Sinn Fein as Micheal Martin
 
Traditionally the party in the Republic of Ireland that had passable relations with unionists was Fine Gael, and even then it was turbulent and by no means warm.
 
     
 
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Murder probe after man's body found in Ballymena
 
A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a man at a house in Orkney Drive, Ballymena on Saturday morning.
 
     
 
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'Brutal' murder of man shot dead in Belfast
 
A man has been shot dead in Belfast, a local councillor has confirmed.
 
     
 
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'I remember, as teenager, trying to tame my afro so I would blend in'
 
In the first of special two-part series on the experiences of ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland, HELEN MCGURK speaks with Cathy Kapande about growing up in Co Down and 'baked-in racism'
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: Weak planning in Northern Ireland was never going to be a match for a China that discards niceties
 
This week for the first time since March I drove in Belfast in the evening rush hour.
 
     
 
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Will covid-19 put the dampers on the Twelfth?
 
This day fortnight is the eve of the Twelfth but then readers will know that already.
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
 
 
   
 
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