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A US stimulus package in the order of the $2.2 trillion CARES act approved in March would increase growth by two percentage points next year, the IMF's chief economist tells AFP. SOUNDBITE
"We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression," IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says in a speech previewing next week's spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, as she warns that "global growth will turn sharply negative in 2020," due to the global coronavirus pandemic. SOUNDBITE
"It will be a major legacy for us," says Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo after swimming for a few minutes in the river Seine with the President of the Paris Games Organising Committee (Cojo) Tony Estanguet. IMAGES
Beryl has restrengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory. IMAGES
Firefighters respond to a fire that broke out in a block of flats in central Paris, in a street behind the Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville (BHV) department store, forcing the closure and evacuation of staff from the famous shop. IMAGES