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Visitors are unable to gain access to the Department of Labor due to closures over coronavirus concerns, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. Appli...
 Visitors are unable to gain access to the Department of Labor due to closures over coronavirus concerns, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. Applications for jobless benefits are surging in some states as coronavirus concerns shake the U.S. economy. The sharp increase comes as governments have ordered millions of workers, students and shoppers to stay home as a precaution against spreading the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — more than quadruple the previous record set in 1982 — amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus.
 The surge in weekly applications was a stunning reflection of the damage the viral outbreak is doing to the economy. Filings for unemployment aid generally reflect the pace of layoffs.
 The pace of layoffs is sure to accelerate as the U.S. economy sinks into a recession. Revenue has collapsed at restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, gyms, and airlines. Auto sales are plummeting, and car makers have close factories. Most such employers face loan payments and other fixed costs, so they're cutting jobs to save money.
 As job losses mount, some economists say the nation's unemployment rate could approach 13% by May. By comparison, the highest jobless rate during the Great Recession, which ended in 2009, was 10%.
 The economic deterioration has been swift. As recently as February, the unemployment rate was at a 50-year low of 3.5%. And the economy was growing steadily if modestly. Yet by the April-June quarter of the year, some economists think the economy will shrink at its steepest annual pace ever — a contraction that could reach 30%.
 Many people who have lost jobs in recent days have been unable to file for unemployment aid because state websites and phone systems have been overwhelmed by a crush of applicants and have frozen up. That logjam suggests that Thursday's report on filings for unemployment benefits actually understates the magnitude of job cuts last week.
 With layoffs surging, a significant expansion of unemployment benefits for the millions who will lose jobs as a result of the coronavirus outbreak was included in an economic relief bill nearing final approval in Congress. One provision in the bill would provide an extra $600 a week on top of the unemployment aid that states provide. Another would extend 13 additional weeks of benefits beyond the six months of jobless aid that most states offer.
 Separate legislation passed last week provides up to $1 billion to states to enhance their ability to process claims. But that money will take time to be disbursed.
 Jessy Morancy of Hollywood, Florida, was laid off Friday from her job as a wheelchair attendant and customer service agent at Fort Lauderdale Airport. Morancy, 29, called the state unemployment office Monday to try to file for unemployment benefits but encountered just a recorded message telling her to call back later.
 She was also concerned that even a full unemployment benefit of $275 a week would be less than half of what she earned at her job and insufficient to provide for her children, ages 10 and 7.
 “I’m still in a state of shock,” Morancy said.
 She said she has heard that airline employees might continue to receive salaries if Congress provides financial assistance to the airlines. Yet even so, it’s not clear that employees like her who work for contractors — Eulen America, in her case — would be eligible.
 “If these companies are going to get a bailout, why not include us?” Morancy said.
 Even for those able to file a claim, the benefits will take time to kick in. It typically takes two to three weeks before applicants receive any money. State agencies must first contact their former employers to verify their work and earnings history. Only then can the employee’s weekly unemployment benefits be calculated.
 Worsening the problem, most state agencies that handle unemployment claims are operating at historically low funding levels and staffing that are intended to handle a trickle of claims. Just weeks ago, the job market was in the strongest shape it had been in decades.
 Kim Boldrini-Sen, 41, has also struggled to even file her claim. She has tried in two states: In Connecticut, where she works as an acupuncturist in a private practice, and in New York, where she lives and has her own acupuncture business.
 In Connecticut, she thought her application had been submitted. But when she returned last week to re-file as applicants are required to do each week, she found there was no record of her initial filing. After taking an hour to re-file, she received a pop-up notice that she was ineligible to do so online.
 In New York, the state's website repeatedly crashed when she was halfway through filling out her request. When she finally managed to press submit, she received a pop-up saying she had to file over the phone. That hasn't worked well, either.
 "I've called at all hours of the day, she said. "That's been my life for a week, and I still can't get through to anyone."
 On Monday, the New York State Department of Labor tweeted, "If you have been unable to get through our phone and/or online system this week, please keep trying."
 "We are working as hard as we can to ensure that all benefits are paid and appreciate your patience," the agency said on Twitter.
 Ellen Zentner, an economist at Morgan Stanley, said in a note to clients that 17 million jobs could be lost through May -- twice the entire 8.7 million jobs that were lost in the Great Recession. She expects the unemployment rate to average 12.8% in the April-June quarter, which would be the highest level since the 1930s.
 Still, Zentner also expects the economy to start recovering by the second half of the year. It will take time for things to return to something close to normal, she projects: The unemployment rate could still top 5% at the end of next year.

title: US jobless claims hit 3.3 million, quadruple previous record


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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Muslim cleric was extradited Thursday from Norway to Italy, where he has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for planning terror.
 Norwegian Justice Minister Monica Maeland told a news conference that Iraqi-born Mullah Krekar had been sent to Italy.
 “We have been waiting for Italy to say it was justifiable to do so, and they thought it was today,” Maeland said.
 In July, Krekar, who was born Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad, was found guilty by a court in northern of attempting to overthrow the Kurdish government in northern Iraq and create an Islamic caliphate.
 Earlier this year, Norway has long wanted to get him out of the country, decided he could be extradited on an Italian extradition request. He opposed that, fearing he would be extradited to Iraq. Most recently, he also expressed fears that Italy had become the epicenter of the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
 His Norwegian lawyer Brynjar Meiling said authorities in Norway didn’t “have the decency to let him say goodbye to his family.”
 “This is a day of shame for all those who have not stood up against the extradition of an obviously innocent man,” Meiling told the VG newspaper. His criticism was directed at Norwegian courts that have ruled in favor of his extradition, the government and the opposition.
 Italian prosecutors had alleged Krekar is behind Rawti Shax, a European network aimed at violently overthrowing the government in Kurdistan.
 In 2015, European authorities arrested 15 Iraqi-Kurdish nationals on terrorism-related charges. Rawti Shax recruited foreign terrorist fighters to be sent to Iraq and Syria and provided logistical and financial support, according to the Italian prosecutors who spearheaded the probe. They alleged that Krekar was the leader.
 A refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan who came to Norway in 1991, the 63-year-old cleric has several convictions in Norway, including for threatening Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He also praised the 2015 extremist attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
 Krekar founded the now-defunct Ansar al-Islam insurgent group of Sunni Kurds, which aimed to install an Islamic caliphate in Iraqi Kurdistan. It reportedly merged with the Islamic State group in 2014.

journalist: By JAN M. OLSEN , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Norway extradites convicted Kurdish cleric to Italy


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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 file photo, Russia's Natalia Paderina, left, and Georgia's Nino Salukvadze embrace after the women's 10 meter air...
 FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 file photo, Russia's Natalia Paderina, left, and Georgia's Nino Salukvadze embrace after the women's 10 meter air pistol final at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Even if it takes an extra year, Salukvadze will still be aiming for an Olympic record. The Georgian shooter has competed at every Olympics since 1988, where she won a gold medal for the Soviet Union. At the Tokyo Olympics — now postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic — she will set a women's record of nine appearances. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)

 FILE - In this Thursday April 28, 2016 file photo, former champion Nino Salukvadze, left, and her son Tsotne Machavariani pose for a photo during an i...
 FILE - In this Thursday April 28, 2016 file photo, former champion Nino Salukvadze, left, and her son Tsotne Machavariani pose for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press in Tbilisi, Georgia. Even if it takes an extra year, Salukvadze will still be aiming for an Olympic record. The Georgian shooter has competed at every Olympics since 1988, where she won a gold medal for the Soviet Union. At the Tokyo Olympics — now postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic — she will set a women's record of nine appearances. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, file)

 DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Even if it takes an extra year, Nino Salukvadze will still be aiming for an Olympic record.
 The Georgian shooter has competed at every Olympics since 1988, where she won a gold medal for the Soviet Union. At the Tokyo Olympics — now postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic — she will set a women's record of nine appearances.
 She's happy to wait for it.
 “We're restructuring my training and there's nothing terrible about that. The main thing is health,” Salukvadze told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from her home in the South Caucasus nation.
 Salukvadze is one of a host of Olympic veterans taking the extra year in stride. There's also 37-year-old American hurdler Lolo Jones, who is hoping to return to the track in Tokyo, and Uzbek gymnast Oksana Chusovitina, who has qualified for her eighth Olympics — breaking her own record in the sport.
 Chusovitina has considered retirement before but chose to carry on. This time around, the 1992 gold medalist said Tokyo will be her last Olympics.
 “It's already good that they have postponed. Everything will calm down and everything will be fine, and I think then the Olympics will go ahead as normal,” said the 44-year-old Chusovitina, who is training in restricted conditions because of the virus outbreak. “I want to compete in Tokyo and retire."
 Chusovitina said Uzbek officials sent her home from a training center after the Olympics were postponed, leaving her to spend unexpected downtime with her husband and dogs.
 It's a rare quiet point in her uniquely long-running gymnastics career. Chusovitina has been competing at elite level since the 1980s, long before most other current gymnasts were born.
 Salukvadze hasn't set a date for retirement, but said each Olympic cycle is tougher than the last. Experience is a strength, though.
 “The physical burden is one thing, but the psychological side plays a big role,” she said.
 The delay caused by the outbreak may even be a boost to the 51-year-old Salukvadze's hopes of adding to her career tally of one gold, one silver and one bronze in shooting. She had eye surgery in December and needs time to adapt to the change.
 For now, she is in limited fitness and air pistol training at home with her son Tsotne Machavariani, a shooter who competed at his first Olympics in 2016. They're in isolation for 14 days after returning home from neighboring Azerbaijan and are passing the time with table tennis.
 Salukvadze secured a qualifying spot in 2019 and the International Shooting Sport Federation told the AP on Wednesday it will confirm already-qualified athletes despite the postponement. When the Tokyo Olympics happen — no new date has been selected — Salukvadze will pull ahead of the two other eight-time female Olympians with whom she shares the record.
 German-Italian canoeist Josefa Idem retired after the 2012 Olympics and Canadian rowing cox Lesley Thompson-Willie moved into coaching since her last Olympic appearance in 2016.
 The all-time record holder, male or female, is 73-year-old Canadian show jumper Ian Millar, who competed at 10 Olympics between 1972 and 2012. He retired last year.
 Salukvadze's long Olympic career has come despite many hardships.
 In 1992, she competed shortly after the Soviet Union had fractured and her home state of Georgia was sliding into conflict. She reached the 1996 Atlanta Games despite economic turmoil. During the 2008 Olympics, Georgia was at war with neighboring Russia, and Salukvadze embraced a Russian competitor on the podium in a call for peace.
 But the memories of tough times are memories of hope, too.
 “There was war. There was hunger. We lived without light or gas. In the 1990s, we lived through worse than this with the coronavirus,” Salukvadze said. “There was a lot of friendship and everyone united.”
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journalist: By JAMES ELLINGWORTH , AP Sports Writer, Associated Press

title: Record-setting Olympians stretch careers for games in 2021


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（中央社記者唐佩君布魯塞爾26日專電）歐洲聯盟2位領導人今天在20國集團（G20）線上峰會後呼籲集團成員相互協助，採取空前行動，透過大規模和協調一致的全球行動，挽救生命並避免進一步的經濟危機。

2019冠狀病毒疾病（COVID-19，武漢肺炎）持續在歐洲擴散，數以億計歐盟民眾深陷全國封城禁令，歐洲合計超過1萬人喪命；身為20國集團輪值主席國的沙烏地阿拉伯國王沙爾曼今天主持視訊會議，敦促G20領袖採取「有效協調」的行動，對抗由武漢肺炎引發的全球危機。

歐盟今天在G20會後發出歐洲理事會主席米歇爾（Charles Michel）與范德賴恩（Ursula von der Leyen）的聯合聲明，表示在歐洲處於全球疫情危機中心下，2位主席感謝G20領導人對歐盟及其會員國的聲援。

聯合聲明指出，2位主席強調，史無前例的事件需要採取史無前例的行動，透過大規模和協調一致的全球行動，挽救生命並避免進一步的經濟危機。

歐盟感謝沙國致力全球協調，呼籲G20相互協助，遣返滯留在國外的希望回國的公民；並歡迎G20要求世界衛生組織（WHO）與有關機構密切合作，迅速提出一項關於全球大流行疾病防範和應對的全球倡議。

此外，歐盟領導人們堅持，G20應動員所有可用的手段，以緩解經濟衰退，歐盟將會致力提高製造和提供必要的防護和醫療設備的能力，並保持貿易流動和供應鏈暢通。

沙烏地阿拉伯國王沙爾曼（Salman）則表示，20國集團必須發出強烈信號，儘快恢復商品和服務的正常流通，重建對全球經濟的信心。（編輯：張佑之）1090327

journalist: 中央社記者唐佩君布魯塞爾26日專電

countries: 歐盟 沙烏地阿拉伯

events: 武漢肺炎 COVID-19 冠狀病毒

title: G20線上峰會 歐盟籲採空前行動挽救生命及經濟 | 國際


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（中央社莫斯科26日綜合外電報導）世界西洋棋總會（World Chess Federation）主席德佛柯維奇表示，鑑於武漢肺炎疫情大流行，俄羅斯所主辦的備受矚目2020世界冠軍候選人賽今天停賽。

法新社報導，俄羅斯政府稍早宣布，自3月27日起暫停所有國際航班，作為2019冠狀病毒疾病（COVID-19，武漢肺炎）防疫措施的一環。

德佛柯維奇（Arkady Dvorkovich）發表聲明說，2020世界冠軍候選人賽（Candidates tournament）無法在「不能保證選手和隊職員安全且及時回到家的情況下」繼續進行。

德佛柯維奇還說：「賽事稍後會繼續進行，確切日期將在2019冠狀病毒疾病大流行的全球情勢容許時，盡快宣布。」

由於武漢肺炎疫情大流行，俄羅斯冰上曲棍球、足球和籃球全國聯賽主辦方近日陸續宣布，暫停原定要舉辦的賽事，但2020世界冠軍候選人賽仍如期於上週開賽。

來自世界各國的8名西洋棋手齊聚俄羅斯烏拉爾區（Urals）葉卡捷琳堡（Yekaterinburg）比賽，爭取50萬歐元（約新台幣1700萬元）獎金，以及對戰29歲挪威籍西洋棋世界冠軍卡爾森（Magnus Carlsen）的機會。

世界西洋棋總會已禁止民眾到現場觀賽，以降低與疫情大流行相關的風險；另也要求記者與選手保持6公尺距離。

俄羅斯已通報840起武漢肺炎確診病例，昨天更首度宣布，境內有2人染疫不治。（譯者：李宛諭/核稿：劉學源）1090326

journalist: 譯者：李宛諭/核稿：劉學源

countries: 挪威 俄羅斯

events: 冠狀病毒 COVID-19 武漢肺炎

title: 疫情衝擊 西洋棋世界冠軍候選人賽中途喊卡 | 國際


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（中央社台北26日電）中國政府今天深夜宣布，自28日凌晨0時起，暫時停止外國人持「目前有效」的中國簽證和居留許可入境，而各個口岸簽證、各種效期過境免簽、各地區特別入境免簽的措施，也同時一併暫停。

澎湃新聞報導，這項名為「關於暫時停止持有效中國簽證、居留許可的外國人入境的公告」，是由中國外交部、中國國家移民管理局在深夜11時過後聯名發布。

公告提到，鑑於新冠（武漢）肺炎疫情在全球範圍快速蔓延，中方決定自28日凌晨0時起，暫時停止外國人持「目前有效來華簽證和居留許可」入境。

據公告，中國政府還暫停外國人持APEC商務旅行卡入境、暫停口岸簽證、24、72、144小時過境免簽、海南入境免簽、上海郵輪免簽、港澳地區外國人組團入境廣東144小時免簽、東協旅遊團入境廣西免簽等措施。

但公告提到，持外交、公務、禮遇、C字簽證入境不受影響。外國人如前往中國從事「必要的經貿、科技等活動」，以及出於緊急人道主義需要，可向中國駐外使領館申辦簽證。外國人「持公告後簽發的簽證入境不受影響」。

公告強調，這是中方為「應對當前疫情，參考多國做法，不得已採取的臨時性措施」。中方願與各方保持密切溝通，做好當前形勢下中外人員往來工作，並將根據疫情形勢調整上述措施，並另行公告。（編輯：邱國強）1090326

journalist: 編輯：邱國強

title: 中國宣布  28日起暫停外國人入境 | 兩岸


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 何书记去深圳学习归来，孙副区长组织召开了欢迎会。彭天翼给何书记汇报改革试点的工作细节，但是被孙副区长打断，在何书记面前，孙副区长把袁清河送宋赫男钱，以及袁清河可能与宋赫男的关系都一并说了出来。彭天翼对这些指责一并予以否认，但是孙副区长把袁清河给宋赫男送钱具体原因讲出来之后，一时让彭天翼无法反驳。
（《远方的山楂树》 第43集）

journalist: 任凭

title: 《远方的山楂树》 第43集


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 宋赫男知道蒋欣童当选为承包人，她很气愤，她告诉彭天翼，他惹下大祸了，这次得罪了不该得罪的人，彭天翼追问宋赫男，到底谁是这位不该得罪的人，宋赫男没有回应。罗永泽知法犯法，他们这次去乡下收来的青铜器、石造像都是文物。最后鸡飞蛋打，钱没挣到，反而被罚了五千块。
（《远方的山楂树》 第42集）

title: 《远方的山楂树》 第42集


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 宋赫男去做亲子鉴定，结果发现冠宇不是袁清河的孩子。宋赫男这才松了一口气，对袁清河又打又骂，袁清河只好答应以后再也不来找宋赫男。宋赫男内心沉重的负担放了下来，她终于敢正面的去面对这件事，但如何去解除彭天翼心中的芥蒂，宋赫男却没有想好。
（《远方的山楂树》 第44集）

title: 《远方的山楂树》 第44集