ROME (AP) — Italy has taken a page from China’s playbook, locking down around 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2020 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
A hotel used for medical observation of people who had contact with Covid-19 patients has collapsed in south eastern China trapping some 70 people, China's state media have reported. There were no immediate reports of deaths. At...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2020 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
LONDON (AP) — As cases of the novel coronavirus surge in Italy, Iran, South Korea, the US and elsewhere, many scientists say it is plain that the world is in the grips of a pandemic — a serious global outbreak. The World Health...
Published:Sunday | February 23, 2020 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
(AP) — Bernie Sanders’ commanding Nevada caucus victory made him a top target for his Democratic rivals and a growing source of anxiety for establishment Democrats worried that the nomination of a self-avowed democratic socialist could...
Published:Saturday | February 22, 2020 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
(AP) — South Korea has reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections with more than 400 cases, mostly linked to a church and a hospital; while the death toll in Iran climbed to six; and a dozen towns in Italy effectively went...
Published:Saturday | February 8, 2020 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
BEIJING (AP)- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says it has received a response from China on the dispatch of a WHO-led international mission to the country, where the novel coronavirus has killed hundreds of people. ...
Published:Saturday | February 8, 2020 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — A soldier has shot and killed at least 20 people and injured 31 others in north eastern Thailand, where he has been holed up in a popular shopping mall, officials say. Thai police...
Published:Sunday | October 27, 2019 | 12:00 AM(AP) -
The Tokyo Motor Show opens this week with plenty of futuristic technologies but absent one of the auto industry’s hugest influencers: Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn. Since Ghosn’s arrest for alleged financial misconduct in November 2018,...
