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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”
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
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
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
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
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
IRAN The new virus has killed two elderly Iranian citizens, the state-run IRNA news agency reported early today. IRNA quoted Alireza Vahabzadeh, an adviser to the country’s health minister, as
JAPAN Health authorities said yesterday they have confirmed 88 more cases of the new virus on a quarantined cruise ship near Tokyo. The new cases bring the total on the
JAPANESE officials have confirmed 99 more people infected by the new virus aboard the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 454. The Health Ministry has been carrying
IRAQ At least four rockets hit near the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and a Iraqi base hosting American troops inside the Green Zone yesterday, but caused no casualties and
CAMBODIA The operators of a cruise ship that was barred from docking in four countries announced yesterday that it will land and disembark passengers in Cambodia. Thailand had said that
THAILAND Health authorities have barred a cruise ship from docking that has already been turned away by the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan out of concern over a new virus, although
EU The European Union commissioner for crisis management says the new virus that emerged in China creates a “worrisome” situation that will be discussed during a special meeting of health
HONG KONG has lifted a quarantine on the World Dream cruise ship after clearing all crew members of the new virus. The ship has been placed under quarantine since it
HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways is asking its 27,000 employees to take turns in taking three weeks of unpaid leave while the Hong Kong carrier struggles with plunging revenue due
CHINA Global business is catching a chill from China’s virus outbreak. Airlines have canceled 25,000 flights to and within China after ticket sales collapsed, according to travel data provider OAG.
CHINA Scientists found more evidence that the new coronavirus likely originated in bats. In two papers published yesterday in the journal Nature, scientists report that genome sequences from several patients
AUSTRALIA Dozens of homes were destroyed overnight in Australia’s southeast but the wildfire threat had diminished by yesterday across New South Wales state and around the national capital Canberra, officials
CHINA demanded that a major Danish newspaper, which angered Muslims worldwide by publishing drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006, apologizes for a cartoon on the new virus outbreak in
THAILAND Police have arrested a man on suspicion of ruthlessly killing three people, including a toddler, during a gold shop robbery that shocked the country. Local media said the suspect
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