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AUSTRALIA yesterday criticized China for formally charging a Chinese-Australian writer with espionage during the coronavirus pandemic. Yang Hengjun was taken into custody upon arriving in China from New York in

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THAILAND’s government approved a one-month state of emergency allowing it to impose stricter measures to control the coronavirus that has infected hundreds of people in the Southeast Asian country. Prime

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CHINA The city of Wuhan, where the virus outbreak emerged, is now allowing for limited movement within and outward as its months-long lockdown gradually eases. The municipal government said in

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NORTH KOREA President Donald Trump sent a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, seeking to maintain good relations and offering cooperation in fighting the viral pandemic, Kim’s

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MONACO The palace of Monaco says its ruler, Prince Albert II, has tested positive for the new coronavirus but his health is not worrying. Albert, 62, appeared to be the

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NORTH KOREAN leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged that his country lacks modern medical facilities and called for urgent improvements in a rare assessment of the North’s health care system that

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THAILAND Bombers attacked a major government office in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued far south as hundreds of local officials and Muslim clerics met to discuss fighting COVID-19. At least

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PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte placed the northern third of the country under an “enhanced community quarantine” that requires millions of people to stay mostly at home in an attempt to

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PHILIPPINES Thousands of police in the Philippines, backed by the army and coast guard, started sealing the densely populated capital from most domestic travelers yesterday in one of Southeast

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CHINA Authorities have taken several people into custody as part of their investigation into the collapse of a coronavirus quarantine facility that killed 29 people. Officials told

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CHINA The province at the center of China’s virus outbreak began allowing factories and some other businesses to reopen yesterday in a show of confidence that Beijing is gaining control

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ITALY Premier Giuseppe Conte put his entire country on lockdown to combat the coronavirus, banning all but the most important travel and putting the final kibosh on

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MARKETS Global stock markets and oil prices plunged yesterday after a fight among major crude-producing nations jolted investors who already were on edge about the surging costs

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CHINA At least 10 people were killed in the collapse of Chinese hotel that was being used to isolate people who had arrived from other parts of China

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  CHINA To keep his 40 employees indoors and away from China’s virus outbreak, the manager of an electronics factory in Dongguan, near Hong Kong, says he hired a cook and

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TRAVEL Amazon and other big companies are trying to keep their employees healthy by banning business trips, but they’ve dealt a gut punch to a travel industry

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INDONESIA’s most active volcano erupted yesterday, spewing sand and pyroclastic material and sending a massive column of smoke and ash as high as 6,000 meters into the

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PORTUGAL registered its first two cases of the new coronavirus, both in people who had recently returned from abroad, Health Minister Marta Temido told a news conference

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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

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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”

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