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Get short URL As coronavirus fears grip the planet, a world-renowned virologist has explained when Covid-2019 will fade away and, more importantly, whether medical masks are of any use. From China and South Korea to Iran and Italy, the novel coronavirus continues to put a heavy strain on entire cities and countries. Flights and public […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of a working group created to discuss constitutional amendments in the Kremlin in Moscow.   –  Copyrigh Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP–Alexei Druzhinin Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday submitted a slew of new proposed amendments to the country’s Constitution that include a mention of God and […]

FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis coughs as he leads the weekly Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican, March 1, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, who canceled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy because he is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for […]

Just hours after he somberly confirmed the first coronavirus-related death in the United States, President Donald Trump boasted to a packed room of conservatives that he was responsible for keeping them safe. “My administration has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to control our borders and protect Americans from the coronavirus that came […]

[PHOTO\CGTN] The Chinese government will donate 5,000 sets of protective clothing and 100,000 masks to Japan in batches, the first two of which arrived in Tokyo on February 27 and 28 in order to help Japan to fight against the novel coronavirus, the Chinese Embassy in Japan said in a statement on Saturday. Many Chinese […]

©Sputnik / Nina Zotina Three employees of the Turkish branch of Sputnik News, whose apartments were attacked by Turkish nationalists on Saturday night, have been missing since going to file complaints about the incident to Turkish police. “We have not been able to contact our employees in Ankara for nine hours now,” Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief […]

Refugees arrived in Lesbos aboard dinghies on Friday morning –  CopyrightAP–Michael Varaklas Hundreds of refugees have already flocked to Turkey’s border with Greece — or arrived in dinghies on the island of Lesbos — after Ankara said it would no longer prevent their passage to Europe.The comments have prompted criticism from human rights experts who say Turkey […]

KABUL: After a week-long reduction in violence that resulted from painstaking negotiations, the US and Taliban signed a historic agreement Saturday in Qatar, which would herald a drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan and long-awaited negotiation between the rebel group and Kabul government. The peace agreement includes a 14-month deadline for withdrawal of all U.S. […]

  (Yonhap) South Korea saw the number of the novel coronavirus cases surpass 3,100 with 17 deaths on Saturday afternoon, with the coming days until early March considered a watershed for the country’s efforts to contain community spread of the deadly virus. As of Saturday afternoon, the number of infections climbed by 813 – the […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses ruling AK Party deputies in Istanbul, Feb. 29, 2020. (AA Photo)  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that Ankara has asked Moscow to stay out of its fight against Assad regime forces in Idlib as Turkish forces continued to target regime positions in northern Syria. “I asked Putin for Russia […]