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LONDON: Here are some key features of coronaviruses and what we know about the new virus that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. • Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that get their name from what they look […]

Medical staff carry a box as they walk at the Jinyintan hospital, where the patients with pneumonia caused by the new strain of coronavirus are being treated, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 10, 2020. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, […]

SYRIA: A Frenchman has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for seeking to recruit dozens of youths to fight as jihadists in Syria and for leading a brigade of French-speaking Islamists in the war-torn country. Mourad Fares, 35, fled […]

The search for the snowmobilers includes divers, sonar operators and police backed by helicopters. (Reuters pic) MONTREAL: Canadian searchers on Friday found the body of one of five French snowmobilers whose machines fell through the ice of a frozen lake, police […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson says signing the withdrawal agreement ‘finally delivers’ the 2016 referendum. (AP pic) LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed “a new chapter” in Britain’s history as he signed its divorce treaty with the EU, clearing […]

PARIS: China has closed off almost 20 cities as it scrambles to contain a new virus that has killed more than three dozen people since Jan 11, with cases confirmed in several countries. Here is a timeline. On Dec 31, […]

Passengers who arrived on one of the last flights from Wuhan are reflected in the lens of an advanced thermo camera as they walk through a health screening station at Narita airport in Chiba prefecture, outside Tokyo January 23, 2020. […]

The family of Harry Dunn said Anne Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road during the crash. (AP pic) LONDON: Britain criticised the United States on Friday for refusing to extradite a US diplomat’s wife who was […]

SOLID WASTE piling up in the country’s top tourist destinations has created concern among its tourism stakeholders. According to the Myanmar Times, netizens complained that the recent month-long Pyin Oo Lwin Flower Festival at the National Kandawgyi Garden in the […]

Workers take the body temperature of passengers before they enter the subway station outside the Beijing Railway Station in central Beijing January 25, 2020. — Reuters pic BEIJING, Jan 25 — China has quarantined cities and shut major tourist attractions […]

The 6.8 magnitude quake caused buildings to collapse and sent panicked residents rushing into the street. (AP pic) ISTANBUL: A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 hit eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 14 people, causing buildings to collapse […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has not taken kindly to America’s criticism on his drug crackdown. (AFP pic) MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to end a pact key to annual war games with American troops if the US does not […]

Hong Kong writer and activist Jason Y. Ng gives an interview with AFP in Barcelona on January 23, 2020. — AFP pic BARCELONA, Jan 25 — Escalating protest violence is not the way to bring about change, Hong Kong democracy […]

A medical worker in Wuhan writes their colleague’s name on a protective suit to aid in identification. (AP pic) WUHAN: A massive quarantine effort covering 13 cities was in effect in China on Saturday aimed at containing a deadly virus, as […]

Picture uploaded to social media on January 25, 2020 by the Central Hospital of Wuhan show medical staff attending to patients, in Wuhan, China. — Central Hospital of Wuhan via Weibo/Reuters handout BEIJING, Jan 25 — A doctor at a […]

Faith leaders pray with US President Donald Trump during an anti-abortion rally. (AP pic) WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, seeking to shore up evangelical support ahead of the November election, addressed the country’s biggest annual anti-abortion rally on Friday as the […]

NEW YORK: Actress Rosie Perez took the stand in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein on Friday, after the judge presiding over the case ruled that she could testify for the prosecution. Perez is expected to tell jurors that her […]

A health alert by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (AP pic) CHICAGO: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed that a second case of Wuhan coronavirus in the United […]

BERLIN: Six people were killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting in southwestern Germany, police said on Friday. The shooter, believed to have a personal motive, launched an assault in the town of Rot am See. Police in nearby […]

A Rohingya refugee hangs a blanket out to dry at Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP pic) YANGON: Myanmar has put in place measures to protect Rohingya Muslims, a spokesman for the ruling party said on Friday, shrugging […]

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (centre) during a ‘Fridays for Future’ in Davos. (AP pic) DAVOS: Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday said calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to immediately disinvest in fossil fuels had been ignored. […]

Karamba Diaby is a lawmaker for the centre-left Social Democratic Party. (Facebook pic/Dr. Karamba Diaby) BERLIN: Germany’s only black MP said this week he had received death threats from right-wing extremists days after finding holes probably made by a pellet gun […]

Anti-government protesters close a key highway in Baghdad. (AP pic) BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqis rallied at two central Baghdad intersections on Friday after a prominent cleric called for a “million strong” protest against the American military presence, following the US […]

WUHAN, China: Chinese authorities rapidly expanded a mammoth quarantine effort aimed at containing a deadly contagion on Friday to 13 cities and a staggering 41 million people, as nervous residents were checked for fevers and the death toll climbed to […]