FILE PHOTO: A member of the medical team wears a protective face mask, following the coronavirus outbreak, as he sprays disinfectant liquid to sanitise a taxi station in Tehran, Iran March 05, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has temporarily freed about 70,000 prisoners to combat the spread
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GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – Guyana’s top court on Sunday upheld an injunction blocking the elections commission from proclaiming a winner in this month’s presidential election, delaying the results of a vote that has been marred by accusations of fraud. FILE PHOTO: People queue to vote in Guyana’s presidential elections in Georgetown, Guyana March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Neil
Greek riot police officers walk amid clouds of tear gas near Turkey’s Pazarkule border crossing, in Kastanies, Greece March 7, 2020. REUTERS/Florion Goga KASTANIES, Greece (Reuters) – Teargas and smoke bombs were fired across Turkey’s border with Greece on Saturday in a fresh flare up in tensions over the presence of migrants seeking access to
FILE PHOTO: A woman in a face mask walks in the downtown area of Manhattan, New York City, after further cases of coronavirus were confirmed in New York, U.S., March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people in New York state who have tested positive for the coronavirus has increased
A security guard wearing a face mask is seen outside a closed temple as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Shanghai, China, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s financial center of Shanghai reported three new coronavirus infections on Friday, in Chinese nationals who caught the virus
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – International Criminal Court appeals judges will on Thursday rule whether the ICC’s prosecutor can investigate allegations of war crimes by U.S. and other forces in Afghanistan’s conflict, a case that has triggered diplomatic retaliation by Washington. FILE PHOTO: U.S. troops assess the damage to an armoured vehicle of NATO-led military coalition
GENEVA (Reuters) – A Singaporean candidate is ahead of a Chinese lawyer in a race to head the world patent office as Beijing seeks its fifth U.N. leadership role in a move critics say would give it an unprecedented level of influence over new technologies. The headquarter of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is
A man wearing a face mask rides a kick scooter through an intersection in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported on Wednesday another drop in new coronavirus cases as its attention turns to controlling the risk of infection from abroad, as
ROME (Reuters) – The death toll from coronavirus in Italy jumped to 52 on Monday from 34 the day before and the total number of confirmed cases in Europe’s worst affected country climbed past the 2,000 mark. Empty tables are seen in a restaurant of the Vittorio Veneto square in Turin usually full of tourists
FILE PHOTO: A desert locust is seen feeding on a plantation in a grazing land on the outskirt of Dusamareb in Galmudug region, Somalia December 22, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar BEIJING (Reuters) – China could be facing a locust invasion, a government body warned on Monday, urging local authorities to prepare for the arrival of the
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia’s opposition led by the Ordinary People party (OLANO) won an emphatic victory in Saturday’s parliamentary election, as voters angry with graft routed the ruling center-left Smer that has dominated the political scene for over a decade. Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO) party leader Igor Matovic gestures in front of supporters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas rolled out bans on big gatherings, and stricter travel restrictions as cases of the new coronavirus spread around the world. Travellers wearing protective face masks as a precautionary measure arrive on a flight from Italy, after the second case of coronavirus in Sao
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s king named former interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin as the new prime minister on Saturday in a shock decision that sidelined old rivals Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim after a week of political turmoil. FILE PHOTO: Muhyiddin Yassin, former Malaysian deputy Prime Minister, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kuala
TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) – Some 130 guests were cleared on Thursday to leave a Tenerife hotel placed on lockdown after four cases of the coronavirus were detected there, but Spanish authorities did little to allay concerns of the close to 600 tourists who will remain there. On the third day of the H10 Costa Adeje
FILE PHOTO: Members of the medical team check the temperature of Iraqi men, following the coronavirus outbreak, at the entrance checkpoint of South Mosul, Iraq February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Abdullah Rashid
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq reported the first case of coronavirus in the capital Baghdad on Thursday, its sixth in total. A man contracted the virus
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis led the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics into the penitential season of Lent, reminding them on Ash Wednesday that everyone will be “dust in the universe” regardless of their status on earth. Pope Francis takes part in the penitential procession on Ash Wednesday in Rome, Italy, February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Remo