(Bloomberg): The coronavirus pandemic will bankrupt most airlines worldwide by the end of May unless governments and the industry take coordinated steps to avoid such a situation, an aviation…
(AFP) - The coronavirus outbreak in France is "very worrying" and "deteriorating very fast", the head of the country's health service said Monday.
"The number of cases double every three days,"…
(BBC) - Action to isolate the UK's over-70s for an extended period to shield them from coronavirus is planned in the coming weeks, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed.
He told Sky News…
(CNA) - President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday (Mar 13) in what critics say was a long-delayed admission of the gravity of the coronavirus crisis paralyzing the United…
(TheStar) - Governments around the world on Saturday shut more borders, as US President Donald Trump said he had taken a coronavirus test and the number of global cases crossed 150,000.
France,…
(Al Jazeera) - The roller coaster ride continues for Asian stock markets. It comes after a bad day on Wall Street and an announcement by US President Donald Trump, shutting down travel to and from…
(NST) - Wall Street tanked on Thursday, slamming the book on the longest-ever US bull market after new travel restrictions to curb the Covid-19 coronavirus spread spooked investors and rattled…
(SCMP) - President Rodrigo Duterte has announced a month-long lockdown of the whole of Metro Manila as the Philippines looks to contain the spread of Covid-19, adding that he might call on China…
With disparate and at times conflicting responses to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, governments across the globe are abandoning any pretence of joint action and instead putting their own health,…
A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry suggested on Thursday (March 12) that the US military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been hardest hit by the…
(Reuters) - Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding to help it fight the coronavirus outbreak, which has hit the Islamic Republic hard, Foreign Minister Mohammad…
(TheStar) - The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that Covid-19 cases in China have been in significant decline, following the country's "impressive" efforts in…
(FMT) - Pakistan’s parliament passed a new law against child abuse on Wednesday, two years after the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl that shocked the country.
Pakistan’s first national…
(Al Jazeera) - The World Health Organization has declared the worldwide outbreak of the new coronavirus a pandemic, with more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries and 4,291 deaths. "We have called…
(Reuters) - Up to 70% of the population is likely to be infected with the coronavirus that is currently spreading around the world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding that since there…
(NST) - The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented new attempt to beat the Covid-19 coronavirus in…
(NST) - World oil prices crashed on Monday, fuelling a vicious selloff on stock markets which were already buckling from the spreading Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Stocks tanked as the global…
(MalayMail) - A quarter of Italy's population was in lockdown yesterday as the government announced a spike in deaths, with infections soaring past 7,000, overtaking South Korea as the country…
(TheStar) - Philippine troops have killed at least 14 Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State group in a weeklong offensive in a southern province that also left four soldiers dead, a…
(Al Jazeera) - A fourth senior prince is reported to have been detained in Saudi Arabia. US media reports say the former head of army intelligence, Prince Nayef bin Ahmed, is among those now being…
(SCMP) - Two more people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Washington state, officials said, bringing the United States toll to 19, while the number of confirmed cases in New York rose to 89…
(TheSunDaily) - More than 40 people have been rescued following the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China on Saturday, state media reported.
Officials…
(TheStar) - Thailand's annual Songkran festival to be held in mid-April is appearing to be a quiet one as event organisers cancel several events to avoid mass gatherings and the spread of the…
(SCMP) - China says research on coronavirus vaccines is well under way, and some will be available for emergency and clinical research use next month.
Zheng Zhongwei, director of the National…
(Bloomberg) - After years of small divestments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched India’s biggest-ever asset sale, a $29 billion privatization drive that would help prop up the economy but…
(Reuters) - Dubai’s ruler ordered the abduction of two daughters and orchestrated a campaign of intimidation against his former wife, a British judge has ruled, in what is likely to be a major…
(Reuters) - The U.S. death toll from coronavirus infections rose to 11 on Wednesday as new cases emerged around New York City and Los Angeles, while Seattle-area health officials discouraged…
(NST) - Shelves are being stripped bare of toilet rolls, hand sanitiser and surgical masks everywhere from Japan to France to the United States as panic buying criss-crosses the globe with the…
(Reuters) - Chinese anti virus firm Qihoo 360 said CIA hackers have spent more than a decade breaking into the Chinese airline industry and other targets, a blunt allegation of American espionage…
Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus disease in crowded jails.
(BBC) - Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told…