Despite global truce appeal, 661,000 people newly displaced

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — An international aid group said Friday that about 661,000 people in 19 countries have been displaced by armed conflict in the two months since the U.N. secretary-general called for a global cease-fire to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The ongoing large-scale displacement hurts efforts to stem the outbreak and is a “damning verdict” for international diplomacy, said Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council…