Reuters 2020-03-13 17:30:59
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila, in what he called a "lockdown" of the capital to...
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India has reported its first death from coronavirus as a 76-year-old man became the first person to die from the disease in the country. B Sriramulu, the health minister of Karnataka state, said in a...
-- 2020-03-13 13:30:49
Nepal has closed all of its Himalayan peaks including Mount Everest this climbing season because of fears of the coronavirus outbreak, a government minister said on Friday. Nepal, home to eight of th...
REUTERS 2020-03-13 10:58:21
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, and the outbreak prompted the province of Ontario to shut...
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Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, a 66-year-old man who had returned from a religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt at the end of February. The deceased ha...
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Cuba confirmed on Wednesday the first three cases of the new coronavirus in its territory in three Italians who had travelled to the country on Monday, reports Reuters citing the country’s state...
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India has announced that all visas, barring a select few categories, will be suspended for a month in order to halt the spread of Covid-19. Visa free travel afforded to overseas citizens of the count...
-- 2020-03-11 22:11:26
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, a sight the disgraced Hollywood mogul’s multitude of accusers thought they would never see, reports AP...
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The Russian parliament approved a constitutional reform to allow the country's President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036. The parliament gave the approval in the third and final reading We...
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The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen by 18 to 62 with eight testing positive from Kerala, five from Maharashtra, four from Karnataka and one from Jammu and Kashmir, reports Indian daily...
-- 2020-03-11 17:03:52
A man was pulled out alive after being trapped for 69 hours under the rubble of a collapsed virus quarantine hotel in southeastern China in which at least 20 other people died. The official Xinhua Ne...
-- 2020-03-11 15:07:40
Turkish health minister on Wednesday announced the first case of the novel coronavirus in Turkey. A male citizen was tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday evening, Turkish Health Minister Fa...
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Google is recommending all of its North American employees to work from home if their roles permit, the search giant said on Tuesday, aiming to minimize the risk of spreading the coronavirus. The new...
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The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped by 168 to 631, an increase of 36 per cent, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday. It was the largest rise in absolute numbers...
Reuters 2020-03-11 11:38:45
Qianjiang city in China’s Hubei province said on Wednesday it will continue with strict transportation bans, revoking a policy of relaxation that was announced on Tuesday. The city said in an a...
Reuters 2020-03-11 11:23:37
British junior health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, she said on Tuesday. Dorries said she took “all the advised precautions” as soon a...
Reuters 2020-03-11 10:22:35
China reported an uptick in new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, reversing four straight days of fewer new cases, driven by infected individuals arriving from abroad. Mainland China had 24...
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American forces have started pulling out of two bases in Afghanistan, a US official said Tuesday, the day peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban were due to start despite widespread violence and a...
-- 2020-03-10 20:00:57
Airlines around the world sank deeper into crisis on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus epidemic and Italy’s lockdown hammered passenger numbers, forced the cancellation of thousands of flight...
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The first two deaths from COVID-19 in Germany were confirmed by local authorities on Monday. A 89-year-old woman from Essen and a 78-year-old man from the district of Heinsberg, both in the western s...
REUTERS 2020-03-10 14:28:59
More than 114,300 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 4,026 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections outside China have been reported by 111 countries. Burkin...
-- 2020-03-10 13:17:24
Singapore has started charging visitors for coronavirus treatment, the city-state said as it reported new imported infections involving people who had traveled from neighboring Indonesia. Indonesia,...
-- 2020-03-10 11:57:54
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday, marking the first time he has done so since the epidemic began late last year. Xi was mostly absent...
REUTERS 2020-03-10 10:41:44
The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented new attempt to beat coronavirus in Europe's worst-affected cou...
Reuters 2020-03-10 10:31:00
Myanmar police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a news story published about the death o...
-- 2020-03-09 17:16:06
The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for Ruth Kageche, Zipporah Kuria and others whose loved ones were on the plan...
-- 2020-03-09 14:29:27
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt targeting his convoy in the capital Khartoum, state television and a source in the cabinet said on Monday. Hamdok ha...
Reuters 2020-03-09 12:39:15
Mainland China, outside Hubei province, reported no new locally transmitted cases for the second straight day, as a senior Communist Party official warned against reducing vigilance against the diseas...
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Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day. Women and men joined the event in...
-- 2020-03-09 12:12:22
Germany and France withdrew their representatives from North Korea and closed their missions on Monday, the British ambassador there said, amid growing concern in the isolated country about the spread...
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