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Isolated Turkmenistan, which held mass aerobic exercises and a cycling event with coordinated tracksuits this week, is one of only a handful of countries to have reported no coronavirus cases. But ... ( read original story ...)

Authoritarian Turkmenistan gathered thousands of citizens for mass exercise events to mark World Health Day, state media said, ignoring the global trend for social distancing to fight the spread of ... ( read original story ...)

Big data offers tools to stop the pandemic right now—if we change our definition of privacy. Report: Turkmenistan’s Secretive Strongman Remains in Denial About the Pandemic Turkmenistan’s Secretive ... ( read original story ...)

Matthew Bodner In Turkmenistan, a repressive former Soviet state that claims to have zero cases of coronavirus, residents gathered on April 7 to celebrate World Health Day. In the nation’s capital, ... ( read original story ...)

He also enjoyed brief internet fame for rapping about the glories of sports and Turkmenistan with his grandson. But now he may have a more enduring legacy: remembered as the nation leader who banned ... ( read original story ...)

The threat posed by the coronavirus has led to a drop in inmate population at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility. ( read original story ...)

Lebanon's security forces said Friday they had made their largest cannabis seizure in history last month, unearthing 25 tonnes of the drug intended for Africa. The Mediterranean country on March 15 ... ( read original story ...)

Virginia Flickinger was a survivor of the Pearl Harbor bombings in 1941 and today in Pittsburgh, her family celebrated her 100th birthday. ( read original story ...)

Dalati Nohra/via REUTERS Lebanon's President Michel Aoun heads a Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, April 9, 2020. This recent dip has given researchers and medical ... ( read original story ...)

India will export 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and 40,000 tonnes of the grain to Lebanon in diplomatic deals, the Indian farm minister said on Friday. Since India has produced more wheat than ... ( read original story ...)