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An Italian woman on holiday in Palermo has become the first person to test positive for the coronavirus in southern Italy, Italian media report. The woman, from Bergamo, is now in isolation in the Palermo’s Cervello hospital, regional president Nello Musumeci said. The people she was travelling with has also been placed under quarantine, local media report. […]

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Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme attends the news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland Feb 11, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] If you look at what’s happening in Wuhan now, the government authorities in China spent a number of weeks pressuring the virus, and you saw the numbers have dropped away. Now they […]

Police checkpoints in Lombardy, where another person has just died after contracting the coronavirus. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP An elderly man has become the fourth person in Italy to die after contracting the coronavirus, officials said on Monday. The patient was an 84-year-old man who died in hospital in Bergamo, in the north-western region of Lombardy, […]

AA Photo Alarge Turkish military convoy entered the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, reports said Monday. The 50-vehicle convoy was accompanied by the Syrian National Army (SNA) troops, Ihlas News Agency (IHA) reported. Sources said Turkey was deploying special forces to the border with Syria to strengthen its troops standing guard. The Russia-backed Bashar Assad […]

PM Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump at Motera Stadium, Ahmedabad.  Donald Trump India Visit LIVE News Updates: Addressing the Namaste Trump event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said history is being scripted at the Motera stadium. “Five months ago, I started my journey with Howdy Modi. And today, my great friend Trump has started his journey in […]

MMr. Ahmed Shide  Minister of Finance of Ethiopia Ethiopia’s debt stress level has improved from high risk to moderate as of January due to loan rescheduling by China, according to the Ministry of Finance. Ethiopia has 39.1 billion dollars of outstanding debt, of which 16.8 billion dollars is foreign debt, while the remaining is domestic debt. The […]

BSP senior assistant governor Dahlia Luna told The STAR over the weekend that the bank does not see the need to follow the steps taken by the Chinese central bank to prevent the further spread of the virus. MANILA, Philippines — There is no plan to disinfect or destroy banknotes in the country amid the […]

  Getty  LAS VEGAS—In 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders came within five points of beating Hillary Clinton in the Nevada caucuses, a stunning near-upset that, after a similar near-miss in Iowa, helped kickstart the progressive movement that has made him one of the most influential politicians in the country. Four years later—and mere weeks after another […]

AA File Photo Turkish Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to build thousands of new illegal settlements in annexed east Jerusalem. The project was announced Thursday, briefly before the general elections, in which his party failed to win the majority of the votes previously. The policy violated international law and […]