The Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT) has issued a travel warning for both Italy and South Korea amid notable outbreaks of Covid-19 in both countries. However, Japan and Iran, which
SYRIA’S official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that’s led to growing direct clashes between
King Hussein of Jordan has sacked the British commander of the Arab Legion in what is being seen as an effort to strengthen his own position within the Arab world.
A driver who fatally stabbed two people guarding a virus-control roadblock in southwestern China was sentenced to death yesterday, a state news agency reported. The report was a rare sign
JAPAN The last group of about 130 crew members got off the Diamond Princess on yesterday, vacating the contaminated cruise ship and ending Japan's much criticized quarantine that left more
The Swedish prime minister has died after being shot in a street ambush in central Stockholm. His wife was wounded. Olof and Lisbeth Palme were attacked as they were leaving a
U.S. health authorities said they’ve identified the first case of coronavirus that doesn’t have known ties to an existing outbreak, a worrying signal that the virus is circulating in the
The cruise ship MSC Meraviglia, turned away by two nations due to fears of a virus outbreak, is being allowed to dock at Mexico’s Caribbean island of Cozumel and passengers
Still reeling from the effects of major flooding just a few months ago, Venice faces a new emergency: the threat of a new virus outbreak across Italy that is worrying
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis is sick and he skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town yesterday, officials said. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a “slight indisposition”
If the leadership of the World Health Organization can spare a moment from their genuflecting to Beijing, they should direct their attention to another authoritarian state struggling to contain the coronavirus: Iran.
Pope Francis is sick and skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town today (Thursday), officials said. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a "slight indisposition" and would proceed
A proposal to simplify English spelling has cleared its second hurdle in parliament. After a second debate MPs in the House of Commons voted by 65 votes to 53 to approve
Italy reported a 45% one-day increase in people infected with the coronavirus as other countries in Europe recorded their first cases Tuesday, producing evidence that travelers are carrying the virus
President Donald Trump said he’ll discuss the coronavirus threat at a White House news conference today, a day after he sought to minimize fears of the virus spreading widely across the U.S. Trump
Scientists raced to find a treatment, crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, and quarantines were enforced yesterday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to an uninhabited island in
COVID-19 Several European countries have announced their first coronavirus cases, all apparently linked to the growing outbreak in Italy. Austria, Croatia and Switzerland said the cases involved people who had
The Kuwaiti capital has been liberated by the Gulf War Allies after 208 days of Iraqi occupation. Thousands of Iraqi troops began leaving the city after an order from President Saddam
The White House sent lawmakers an urgent $2.5 billion plan to address the deadly coronavirus outbreak, whose rapid spread and threat to the global economy rocked financial markets. The White House
A tourist hotel on the Canary Island hotel of Tenerife was placed in quarantine yesterday after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for the new virus from China that
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