Leaders support global truce to turn fire on coronavirus

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Leaders support global truce to turn fire on coronavirus

JohnCDraper

1 min readApr 16, 2020

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For those without paywall access: which war are they suggesting a truce for?

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All of them. See https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/15/world/macron-world-truce-putin-intl/index.html

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