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Drugmaker Moderna has shipped its first batch of a possible coronavirus vaccine for humans to government researchers for testing. Shares of the biotech company soared yesterday, a day after the company
IRAN The head of Iran’s counter-coronavirus task force has tested positive for the virus himself , showing the challenges facing the Islamic Republic amid concerns the outbreak may be far
The new Philippines president Corazon Aquino is sworn in today, bringing to an end years of dictatorship under Ferdinand Marcos. Former leader Mr Marcos, who changed the constitution in 1973 to
A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom from the new coronavirus this month, a lawmaker was quoted as saying yesterday, even as the Health Ministry
Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy’s north yesterday and residents stocked up on food as the country became the focal point of the outbreak in Europe and fears
China’s unprecedented lock-down and restrictions may have blunted the coronavirus’s spread and averted hundreds of thousands of infection cases, according to a team of medical experts that visited the outbreak’s
IRAN A staggering 50 people have died in the holy city of Qom from the new coronavirus this month, a lawmaker was quoted as saying yesterday, even as the Health
The Labour Party has won the general election, with Clement Attlee returning as Prime Minister. But the result leaves the country in a state of uncertainty as it is the closest
Bernie Sanders scored a commanding victory in Nevada’s presidential caucuses, cementing his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner but escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald
Pope Francis has cautioned against “unfair” solutions aimed at ending the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In a speech yesterday during a visit to the Italian southern port city of Bari
Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London on Saturday to pressure the U.K. government into refusing to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face spying
INDONESIA A flash flood hit hundreds of students and teachers who were hiking along a river on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing at least eight of the students, officials
The American President Richard Nixon has arrived in China at the start of a week-long summit aimed at ending 20 years of frosty relations between the two countries. His visit began
A 43-year-old German man shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight in attacks that appear to have been motivated by far-right beliefs, officials said
Ukraine’s effort to evacuate more than 70 people from China over the outbreak of a new virus faced setbacks yesterday as weather conditions delayed the return of the evacuees and
The Macau government and the central government in Beijing have relied on a variety of measures to halt the Covid-19 outbreak. But whereas the Macau authorities have embraced technology to
JAPAN Two elderly passengers taken off the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess because they were infected with the new virus have died, Japan’s Health Ministry said yesterday, becoming the first
Britain announced new post-Brexit immigration rules yesterday that will make it tougher for European Union citizens, but easier for people from many other nations, to move to the U.K.
Hundreds of people have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the run-up to the election. Villages have been set on fire and bridges and offices have been burnt amid
Fugitive financier Jho Low may have been in Wuhan, with Malaysian authorities now on the lookout for his return in light of the coronavirus outbreak. “Previously, we did receive intelligence that
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