A man wearing a face mask squats in front of a shopping mall as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song BEIJING (Reuters) – China has allocated 110.48 billion yuan ($15.93 billion) in coronavirus-related funding as of March 4, Vice Finance Minister Xu
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Switzerland to go into home quarantine over coronavirus concerns and canceled a military exercise with troops from the U.S. European Command. An Israeli election monitor wearing gloves sorts envelopes as votes cast by Israelis in home-quarantine over coronavirus concerns following
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. watchdog policing Iran’s troubled nuclear deal with major powers admonished Tehran on Tuesday for failing to answer its questions about past nuclear activities at three sites and for denying it access to two of them. FILE PHOTO: An Iranian flag flutters amongst other flags in front of the International Atomic
KIRKLAND, Washington (Reuters) – Six people in the Seattle area have died of the illness caused by the new coronavirus, health officials said on Monday, as authorities across the United States scrambled to prepare for more infections with the emphasis on increasing testing capacity. Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for the Seattle and King County
People watch a TV showing a file picture for a news report on North Korea firing two unidentified projectiles, in Seoul, South Korea, March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Heo Ran TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired two short-range missiles off the east coast into the sea on Monday, resuming testing after a
KASTANIES/LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stone-throwing migrants who sought to force their way across the border from Turkey on Sunday, witnesses said, with thousands more behind them after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement. It was the second straight day of clashes at the border crossing by
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces alone, after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week. Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during funeral ceremony of Turkish soldier Emre Baysal who was killed
FILE PHOTO: Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, listens to Rodolfo Piza, Minister of the Presidency, after he announced his resignation, at the Presidential house in San Jose, Costa Rica July 29, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Prosecutors raided the headquarters of Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado on Friday as part of
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, and two other pro-democracy activists were arrested by police on Friday on charges of illegal assembly, local media reported. FILE PHOTO: Tycoon and Apple Daily Newspaper owner Jimmy Lai shouts slogan before he is taken away by police officer at
AMMAN/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces said on Thursday they had recaptured the crossroads town of Saraqeb, marking a first big push-back of a Syrian government offensive. FILE PHOTO: An internally displaced Syrian family sit together outside a tent near the wall in Atmah IDP camp, located near the border with Turkey,
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
FILE PHOTO: Iraqi men ride a motorbike as they wear protective masks, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus, in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq on Wednesday banned public gatherings and barred entry by travelers from Kuwait and Bahrain because of the spread of the
People light candles as they attend a commemoration outside a church, the day after a car ploughed into a Carnival parade, injuring several people in Volkmarsen, Germany February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German authorities are ruling out that the man who plowed a car into a carnival parade on Monday, injuring some
FILE PHOTO: Guatemala’s then-Attorney General Thelma Aldana participates in a news conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Aug. 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s former attorney general and recent presidential candidate Thelma Aldana said on Monday the United States has granted her asylum, days after her successor filed an extradition request for alleged
VOLKMARSEN, Germany (Reuters) – Investigators were hoping on Tuesday to question a 29-year-old man suspected of ploughing a silver Mercedes car into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volksmarsen, injuring more than 50 people, including 18 children. The area is secured by the firefighters and police the day after a car ploughed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared open to reinstating $4.3 billion in punitive damages against Sudan in lawsuits accusing it of complicity in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. Doreen Oport, who was injured in the attack on the U.S.