Headlines- Iran will retaliate with attacks against "nine countries" if the United States strikes Iranian military bases or "petrochemical" facilities, according to an adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
- At least 58 recruits were killed and over 200 others were injured when the Houthis launched three ballistic missiles at a training facility in Yemen's Shabwa governate. The death toll is anticipated to rise.
- After unrest, French authorities impose curfews in some areas of Paris, northern cities, and Nice.
- After looting damaged thousands of businesses over the weekend, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned on Monday that he was ready to declare a state of emergency as authorities struggled to contain ongoing violence.
- Paul Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed preacher, and 28 accomplices were found guilty by a Mombasa, Kenya, court on Monday of killing 190 children and one adult as members of a well-known Christian starvation cult.
Tag: Coronavirus Epidemic
Coronavirus Spins Yarn of Trouble for...
Bangladesh’s garment industry, the engine of the South Asian nation’s economy, has suffered huge losses with disruptions in the supply chain of fabrics imported from China as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, factory owners and economists said Thursday
COVID19 Effects Kenya China Trade
Kenya is feeling the economic effects of the coronavirus, despite having no infections, as imports from China are dropping over travel bans for people and goods. Airlines are incurring losses and small traders in Kenya fear their stocks will soon be finished and they will be out of business
Coronavirus Tears At Ties On Russia-China...
Trade, study, and tourism have ground to a halt between the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk and the Chinese city of Heihe since Russia closed the border amid coronavirus fears
COVID Surgical Mask Not the Most...
While reports from places where coronavirus has spread show images of people wearing surgical masks, health experts say they are not the most effective protection against the spread of the illness
Tanzanian Health Authorities On High Alert...
Tanzania is said to be one of the countries in Africa most at high risk of importing the coronavirus because of its high trade volume with China. At Tanzania’s biggest market, traders are feeling the crunch as the availability of Chinese-made goods is shrinking. Meanwhile, authorities are preparing to prevent further transmission with intensified surveillance at the country’s ports of entry
COVID South Korea Religious Group
Over the past two weeks, there have been more than 5,000 cases of coronavirus in South Korea. More than half of those infections have been linked to a single fringe religious group — one of many offshoots of Christianity in the country. Its members say their group was only unlucky. But many South Koreans disagree, saying the sect is secretive and hasn’t fully cooperated with authorities
“China’s Fight Against the Coronavirus is...
Chinese Ambassador Zhang on 2 March told reporters in New York that “this coming of spring, we are not far from the coming of the victory, of the final defeat of COVID-19.”
COVID South Korea Drive Thru Clinic
South Korea has experienced a massive spike in confirmed coronavirus infections over the past week. One of the reasons the numbers have jumped so quickly: South Korea is making it very easy for people to get coronavirus tests. As of Friday, the country had tested about 80,000 people. Many are getting tested at specially created drive-thru clinics
A Month in Locked-Down Wuhan: A...
According to Chinese official statics, as of midnight Feb. 21, the day Yang Yuanyun’s body was discovered, there were 53,284 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 2,345 deaths nationwide
Coronavirus – What’s Happening: Virus Fears...
The virus has now officially reached sub-Saharan Africa, as Nigeria reported its first case. The patient is an Italian traveler who recently arrived in Lagos, Africa’s largest city – home to 20 million people. Isolated cases of the virus were confirmed in Egypt and Algeria in north Africa in recent days, but there is growing concern that cases around Africa are going unreported. When the World Health Organization declared this virus a global health emergency last month, it was precisely because of worry that it could hit countries with weak health systems. And that’s increasingly what’s happening, from Africa to Afghanistan and beyond