-- 2020-02-21 11:22:01
South Korea has stepped up measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, as confirmed infections rose sharply for a second day, reports BBC. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun described the devel...
XINHUA 2020-02-20 15:07:40
China has gone all out to treat COVID-19 patients both with mild symptoms and in severe conditions alike in the epicentre city of Wuhan as the number of hospital beds reserved for COVID-19 patients ha...
AP 2020-02-20 13:14:24
A bus collided head-on with a truck in southern India early Thursday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 23 others, police said. The accident occurred near Avanashi, a town in Tamil Nadu state,...
Reuters 2020-02-20 12:08:36
Two passengers from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo have died and 29 people were in a serious condition, Japanese media reported on Thursday, as a second group of passengers disembar...
REUTERS 2020-02-20 11:08:35
China reported a dramatic drop in new cases in the province at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, while scientists reported the new virus may spread even more easily than previously believed. Chi...
-- 2020-02-20 11:04:47
A former Republican congressman has denied he offered a pardon to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of US President Donald Trump. Assange's lawyer said Dana Rohrabacher claimed to be acting...
AP 2020-02-20 10:29:51
A man suspected of fatally shooting nine people in the German city of Hanau was found dead at his home early Thursday, hours after the attacks in and outside two hookah lounges, police said. Officers...
-- 2020-02-19 11:35:26
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is considering a visit to Japan this summer for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, a trip that would take him off the campaign trail as he seeks re-election. Tru...
Reuters 2020-02-19 11:23:06
Hundreds of people began disembarking a quarantined cruise ship off Japan on Wednesday as the death toll from the new coronavirus in mainland China passed 2,000 and the number of new cases in the coun...
Xinhua 2020-02-18 20:01:44
Some785 restaurants and cafes have been closed in the country since last September, reports MTV TV on Tuesday quoting Tony Ramy, head of Lebanon's syndicate of restaurants owners. The number of emplo...
-- 2020-02-18 16:19:32
A "ghost" cargo ship has washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, brought in by the bad weather that lashed Europe in Storm Dennis, reports BBC. The abandoned boat was spotted on the ro...
Reuters 2020-02-18 14:10:02
The head of a leading hospital in China’s central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday, state television said, becoming the second prominent Chi...
-- 2020-02-18 13:00:43
At least 23 people died in a stampede as Nigerian refugees rushed to get food and clothes in a community centre just over the border in Niger on Monday, officials said. The refugees were queuing to g...
REUTERS 2020-02-18 10:50:07
The number of new coronavirus infections in mainland China fell below 2,000 on Tuesday for the first time since January, although global experts warn it is still too early to say the outbreak is being...
BBC 2020-02-17 17:30:02
Two planes carrying hundreds of US citizens from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship have left Japan, officials say. One plane has landed at a US Air Force air base in California, and its passengers will b...
Reuters 2020-02-17 17:18:47
India summoned the Turkish ambassador on Monday to lodge a diplomatic protest over Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks on the disputed region of Kashmir and warned it would have a bearing...
REUTERS 2020-02-17 10:18:35
The number of reported new cases of coronavirus in China’s Hubei province rose on Monday after two days of falls, as authorities imposed tough new restrictions on movement to prevent the spread...
Reuters 2020-02-16 16:50:29
The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell on Sunday and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work, as another 70 people tested positive on a virus-strick...
Reuters 2020-02-16 16:33:00
Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Saturday Mike Bloomberg would not generate the “excitement and energy” needed to win the White House, focusing on a rival still...
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Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement accused the Saudi-led coalition of carrying out retaliatory air strikes on Saturday that killed at least 30 people including civilians, in the latest flare-u...
REUTERS 2020-02-16 12:39:49
Iran and Saudi Arabia appeared no closer to bridging their differences on Saturday with both sides sticking to their positions and regional facilitator Oman seeing no breakthrough before US elections...
REUTERS 2020-02-16 10:24:56
The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday, more than three weeks after the outbreak's epicentre was locked down, and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France, th...
BBC 2020-02-15 16:24:36
A Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the new coronavirus - the first fatality from the disease outside Asia. The victim was an 80-year-old woman from China's Hubei province, accordi...
-- 2020-02-15 15:40:27
German authorities say one person has been killed and three others injured following a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin music venue. Police in the German capital said Saturday that unknown peopl...
Reuters 2020-02-15 13:50:02
Fifteen children died in a fire that swept overnight through an orphanage in Haiti run by a US religious group, authorities said on Friday, triggering renewed controversy over the hundreds of unlicens...
REUTERS 2020-02-15 13:16:39
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he would help Pakistan stay off a terrorism financing blacklist at a meeting of a global finance watchdog, a move he suggested would counter “poli...
REUTERS 2020-02-15 12:46:57
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed US Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Friday, the Sanders campaign said. De Blasio, a liberal who dropped out of the Democratic...
-- 2020-02-15 11:46:35
The United States has reached agreement with the Taliban on a weeklong reduction of violence that could lead to a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior administration official said on Friday,...
REUTERS 2020-02-15 10:35:02
More than 2,600 new cases were confirmed from a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China, the National Health Commission said on Saturday, a day after people returning to the capital from holidays were...
REUTERS 2020-02-14 14:41:41
A senior Chinese health official said on Friday 1,716 health workers have been infected by the coronavirus and six of them have died. National Health Commission vice minister Zeng Yixin told a news c...
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