-- 2020-03-08 13:58:17
The Maldives on Saturday reported its first two confirmed cases of new coronavirus, and placed two of its island resorts under lockdown, as authorities conducted further tests to try to limit the spre...
-- 2020-03-08 11:52:01
Four people have died in the collapse of a hotel in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Sunday, after state media said the place was being used to quarantine ind...
-- 2020-03-07 22:02:07
A hotel building in south-eastern China's Quanzhou city collapsed Saturday night, according to the city government statement. Several state media, including People’s Daily, confirmed the hotel h...
-- 2020-03-07 19:24:13
An Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. This is just another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions. Iran is one of...
-- 2020-03-07 17:44:13
Iran's Health Ministry said Saturday the death toll from the virus climbed to 145 while more than 1,000 infections were confirmed overnight totaling some 5,823 cases nationwide. Some 21 new deaths we...
-- 2020-03-07 15:24:01
South Korea’s coronavirus cases rose to 6,767 on Saturday, up by 174 from late Friday, with more than 60 per cent of the total cases linked to a secretive church at the centre of the country&rsq...
REUTERS 2020-03-07 15:02:06
About a quarter of China’s new confirmed cases and almost all of those outside the epidemic’s epicentre in Wuhan originated outside the country on Friday, according to official data. Most...
-- 2020-03-07 15:01:37
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reported 15 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 45, the Ministry of Health and Prevention said on Saturday. The minis...
-- 2020-03-07 11:39:34
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report. Two of the men were among the kingdom's most influentia...
-- 2020-03-06 17:37:01
Gunmen attacked a ceremony in Kabul on Friday, killing at least 27 people in the first major attack on the Afghan capital since the United States reached an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw US t...
AP 2020-03-06 15:30:30
The number of people infected with the new virus charged toward 100,000 Friday, with the global scare upending routines, threatening livelihoods and prompting quarantines in its spread. Asian shares...
-- 2020-03-06 14:42:36
Bhutan said on Friday it had banned the entry of tourists for two weeks after it confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, in a tourist who arrived from neighbouring India. The tiny Himalayan king...
REUTERS 2020-03-05 11:58:31
South Korea declared a “special care zone” on Thursday around a second city hit hard by the coronavirus and the US military confirmed two new cases among relatives of its troops in the cou...
Reuters 2020-03-05 11:12:11
India lifted some restrictions on internet access in Kashmir on Wednesday, including allowing access to social media websites for the first time since the restive Himalayan region was locked down and...
REUTERS 2020-03-05 10:39:26
The total number of known coronavirus cases in India rose sharply to 29 on Wednesday, including 16 Italian tourists who had tested positive for the disease as well as an employee of a digital payments...
-- 2020-03-04 14:21:23
India recorded its biggest jump in coronavirus cases on Wednesday as 15 Italian tourists and one Indian, who was travelling with them, tested positive for the illness, taking the total number of cases...
REUTERS 2020-03-04 12:24:59
China reported on Wednesday another drop in new coronavirus cases as its attention turns to controlling the risk of infection from abroad, as clusters of the disease that originated in China appear ar...
Reuters 2020-03-04 12:13:33
South Korea reported 516 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as thousands of sick people waited for hospital beds in Daegu, the city at the centre of the worst outbreak outside mainland China. The n...
REUTERS 2020-03-03 10:56:55
The new coronavirus appears to now be spreading much more rapidly outside China than within, and airports in hard-hit countries were ramping up screening of travellers. World Health Organization (WHO...
-- 2020-03-02 16:36:44
North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles off the east coast into the sea on Monday, South Korea’s defense ministry said, in its first apparent weapons test of the year. The projectiles we...
BBC 2020-03-02 14:56:03
Thousands of Muslims from China's Uighur minority group are working under coercive conditions at factories that supply some of the world's biggest brands, a new report says. The Australian Strategic...
AP 2020-03-02 14:19:19
A new virus first detected in China has infected more than 89,000 people globally and caused over 3,000 deaths. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin la...
Reuters 2020-03-02 12:06:53
South Korea reported on Monday 476 new coronavirus cases, taking its national tally to 4,212, as the government of Seoul sought a murder investigation into a controversial church at the centre of the...
-- 2020-03-01 17:21:13
Afghanistan's president said Sunday that he will not free thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week, publicly disagreeing with a timetable for a speedy p...
-- 2020-03-01 16:54:18
Chinese doctors on Saturday completed a double-lung transplant surgery on a COVID-19 patient infected with the novel coronavirus, Wuxi People's Hospital in east China's Jiangsu Province said Sunday....
Reuters 2020-03-01 11:35:30
The Taliban’s political chief has met with senior diplomats from countries including Russia, Indonesia and Norway, hours after signing a deal with Washington aimed at ending the Afghan war, the...
REUTERS 2020-03-01 10:18:35
Leaders in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas rolled out bans on big gatherings, and stricter travel restrictions as cases of the new coronavirus spread around the world. The United States on S...
-- 2020-02-29 19:56:58
The US and the Taliban have signed a peace agreement aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, reports theguardian.com. The signing could help Donald Trump fulfil a key...
-- 2020-02-29 17:00:22
Malaysia's king named former interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin as the new prime minister on Saturday in a shock decision that sidelined old rivals Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim after a week of p...
-- 2020-02-29 12:36:19
Millions of Afghans are anticipating that America’s longest war fought in their country will end on Saturday as US and Taliban negotiators are expected to sign a deal to allow a US troop reducti...
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