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The coronavirus epidemic could cost passenger airlines up to $113 billion in lost revenue this year, an industry body warned on Thursday, as regional UK carrier Flybe collapses. read more...
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The UC Davis Medical Center said it took a week for the CDC to test and confirm what could be the first instance of community spread of coronavirus.
The Australian, who served 11 years in a Bulgarian jail over the stabbing death of a local student, had been due to travel to Brussels to give a talk about his experiences in solitary confinement.
Google has canceled all in-person job interviews over coronavirus / COVID-19, moves to Hangouts
New travel restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus take effect in Singapore today, barring the entry of new visitors who visited South Korea, Iran, or northern Italy in the past 14 days. Citizens and permanent residents returning from these regions will have to self-quarantine for 14 days. ...
OPEC and its allies will consider making substantial oil production cuts to lift prices that have been battered by the coronavirus outbreak, Algeria's oil minister said on Tuesday, as ministers began arriving for talks in Vienna this week.
Europe's finance ministers are prepared to take fiscal measures to support ...
“Ebola knocked us over, but now we know not to underestimate anything; we know how important it is to prepare.”
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President Trump's strategy on handling the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, won't "backfire" as long as he "maintains his cool" and rises above political squabbling with his opponents, Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Deputy Editor Dan Henninger said Thursday.
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has long been seen as a way to project China’s influence around the world. Now, the coronavirus is showing how the trade and infrastructure program can help export the country’s troubles.
February in Sub-Saharan Africa: A round up of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Travelers are backing out of planned cruises because of coronavirus fears, dealing a punishing blow to the industry at a time of year when ships typically start filling up.
A news report from China Daily: For the first time, the number of new novel coronavirus infections in China was overtaken by new cases elsewhere. The fast increase in the number of infections in the Republic of Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran-expanding more than tenfold to over 3,000 in a few days-indicates it is still too early to relax global…
The Kenyan government has announced the suspension of direct flights from northern Italy over the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The last Ebola patient being treated in the Democratic Republic of Congo went home from a treatment center on Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization, a significant step in the countdown to declaring an end to the world's second-deadliest outbreak of the disease.
Vice President Pence, on the heels of being named to lead the U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak, on Thursday vowed that the federal government is prepared to confront any potential health crisis.
Transmission of the coronavirus in China has largely occurred within families, according to a new report that suggests the disease is spreading less readily than some experts had feared.