News Archives for World - 2020-03-23

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Turkey using drug from China for coronavirus

"From this morning we have brought a special drug used in China which is claimed to have resulted in improvements i

Published 23 Mar, 2020 09:05pm

World

US seeks to repatriate 13,500 stranded in pandemic

With much of the world imposing temporary entry restrictions and airlines slashing flights, the State Department ha

Published 23 Mar, 2020 09:03pm

World

UK govt orders three-week lockdown to tackle virus

"Stay at home," Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a televised address to the nation, as he unveiled unprecedente

Published 23 Mar, 2020 09:00pm

World

Pompeo in highest-level US talks with Taliban to break impasse

Pompeo flew to Qatar after a surprise visit to Kabul where he aimed to end a poisonous political deadlock that has

Published 23 Mar, 2020 08:59pm

Middle East

Coronavirus testing to start within days in NW Syria: WHO

Concern for all those people was heightened after the Damascus government on Sunday announced the country's first o

Published 23 Mar, 2020 04:15pm

Europe

Britain's COVID-19 strategy 'risks 70,000 additional deaths'

Fears are growing that the crisis in Britain is following the same path as the one currently devastating Italy.

Published 23 Mar, 2020 04:09pm

World

Trump says he expects Japan's Abe to make 'proper decision' on Olympics

We will be guided by the wishes of Prime Minister Abe of Japan, a great friend of the United States and a man who h

Published 23 Mar, 2020 01:31pm

Europe

German vice-chancellor says Merkel is healthy but working from home

Scholz said he would speak in Merkel's place in the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Wednesday. She is a

Published 23 Mar, 2020 12:50pm

Europe

Germany reports 22,672 coronavirus cases, 86 deaths

That compares with 18,610 cases and 55 deaths on Sunday, when RKI warned that the actual number was likely higher a

Published 23 Mar, 2020 11:51am

World

US Senate fails to advance trillion-dollar rescue package

The shock result, which heaps major pressure on Congress to come together and greenlight a federal government inter

Published 23 Mar, 2020 11:45am

Asia

US Secretary of State Pompeo arrives in Kabul to meet Afghan political rivals

Pompeo is scheduled to meet the men separately and also hold meetings with both together on Monday. Pompeo's v

Published 23 Mar, 2020 11:31am

Europe

Britain now has access to 12,000 ventilators

"We started with 5,000 so we've been buying ventilators and we've also been engaged with companies who are going to

Published 23 Mar, 2020 11:27am

Asia

Indonesia coronavirus cases rise by 65 to 579

The number of people killed by the virus rose by one on Monday to 49, he said, while 30 patients have recovered fro

Published 23 Mar, 2020 11:19am

Europe

UN to create global coronavirus fund, Norway says

The purpose of the fund is to assist developing countries with weak health systems in addressing the crisis as well

Published 23 Mar, 2020 10:53am

Asia

Malaysia coronavirus cases up by 212 in biggest daily jump

The death toll from the coronavirus infection rose to 14, the ministry said. About 970 of the total cases are

Published 23 Mar, 2020 10:41am

Middle East

Iran's death toll from coronavirus climbs to 1,812 with 127 new deaths

Kianush Jahanpur said that in the past 24 hours, some 1,411 Iranians had been infected with the virus across the Is

Published 23 Mar, 2020 10:39am

Africa

Congo imposes 48-hour lockdown on mining province over coronavirus

Jacques Kyabula Katwe said that the boundaries of the southeastern province, whose capital is the major mining hub

Published 23 Mar, 2020 10:20am

World

US Senator Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus

Rand Paul has become the first US senator to test positive for the new coronavirus, the Republican lawaker's office said Sunday. Paul is asymptomatic, "feeling fine and is in quarantine," a staffer wrote on the senator's Twitter feed. US senators are curr