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Riot Games' "League of Legends" Champions League competitions in Korea and China are suspended due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, the game developer said Tuesday. Riot announced the leagues' suspensions of play on March 3, and play in both leagues is suspended indefinitely beginning on March 9. In Korea, media and staff were tested for coronavirus and quarantined for over 11 hours after broadcast host Mina Kim fell ill during a... read more...
President Trump spoke by phone with a top leader of the Taliban Tuesday about the recent peace agreement reached for Afghanistan.
Officials in New York said it is inevitable that the coronavirus will spread in New York city, which just reported its first case. Schools and hospitals all over the country are taking action. Meg Oliver reports.
Calstrs Chief Investment Officer Christopher Ailman on Wednesday said the coronavirus caused the 12-month return from its $252 billion of assets under management to drop by nearly half. But at a meeting Wednesday, he told the system’s Teachers’ Retirement Board, which administers the pension system, that Calstrs’s portfolio is “positioned defensively.”
There have been a couple confirmed cases of the disease in Oregon.
SCHOOLS in the UK are currently preparing online learning resources as they prepare for potential closures due to coronavirus. As part of Boris Johnson’s 12-week “battle plan” against the covid-19…
Largest one-day jump in cases so far as 34 new patients are identified
There is no threat to the Indian Premier League due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, said BCCI President Sourav Ganguly.
The Pentagon will decide how to prepare for the upcoming military moving season with the outbreak based on whether the new COVID-19 virus is still active in late spring through early fall, a military doctor said Wednesday.
In case of a quarantine, these tips from nutritionists will help you prepare to make nutritious meals with limited resources.
Jack Dorsey is reconsidering plans to spend part of this year in Africa, a trip that has helped fuel a push by activist hedge fund Elliott to possibly seek a successor for him.
NT News, known for its humorous front pages, produces a special edition amid panic over loo roll shortage
As concerns about coronavirus spread, gyms and studios nationwide are sending out emails to their members outlining their updated cleaning procedures.
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get The Royalist in your inbox every Sunday. DUBLIN, Ireland—Prince William made an awkward Coronavirus-based gag as he and his wife, Kate Middleton, visited one of Dublin’s top tourist attractions, The Guinness Storehouse yesterday, on the first day of their state trip to Ireland. With the country...
Saudi Arabia banned all pilgrimages to Mecca to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus, the government announced Wednesday.
The CDC has since issued three warning levels: Warning Level 3, issued in China, is to avoid nonessential travel. Watch Level 1, issued in places like the United States, is to practice usual precautions.
'There is no wall we can build that is high enough to keep viruses out of the U.S.'
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Here's the latest on the coronavirus outbreak.
An Amazon worker in Seattle tested positive for the novel coronavirus as concerns mounted over its spread in the U.S., though the number of new infections in China, where the outbreak began, continued to decline.
COVID-19 has reached the southern tip of Africa, extending its spread around the world. South Africa has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus, South Africa's health minister Zweli Mkhize announced Thursday. A 38-year-old man who had recently traveled to Italy tested positive for the disease, and he and the doctor who treated him are now in quarantine. Africa's coronavirus cases had previously been confined to the northern part of the...
(Bloomberg) -- Some of Argentina’s largest creditors flew to Buenos Aires for talks with Alberto Fernandez’s government, even as the global coronavirus outbreak forced counterparts to cancel trips.Representatives from BlackRock Inc., Pacific Investment Management Co. and Ashmore Group Plc met with Economy
The coronavirus outbreak is having a significant financial impact on millions more Britons than other recent global crises, with nearly one in four people taking a hit to the value of their pension funds last week. At least 9.9m people in the UK now have a pension with a private scheme whose value is directly linked to investments in the stock markets, which fell dramatically as the scale and impact of the covid-19 outbreak became clearer. That...
Europe's finance ministers are prepared to implement fiscal measures to sup...