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Russian military vehicles driving in a convoy from the town of Tal Tamr to Qamishli airport, in the city of Qamishli in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province, March 9, 2020. (AFP)  For the first time in decades, the militaries of the U.S. and Russia are on the ground in the same country at the same time, […]

Health minister Nadine Dorries Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Ms Dorries, the first MP to test positive, said she had taken all the advised precautions after finding out and has been self-isolating at home. This comes as a sixth person died from the virus in the UK, which has […]

People wearing masks in Spain to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19.   –    Copyright  Manu Fernandez/Associated Press Coronavirus patients shows symptoms after an average of five days, according to a study by public health scientists that says a quarantine period of 14 days is “reasonable.” An accurate estimate of the incubation period for a new virus makes […]

Xiang Jun (front) helps a recovered COVID-19 patient carry her luggage in Xiaogan, central China’s Hubei Province, March 7, 2020. Xiang Jun, 59, is a volunteer bus driver transferring recovered COVID-19 patients to medical observation facilities for further treatment after they were discharged from hospitals. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s response to novel coronavirus pneumonia has set an […]

Aleppo, SANA – While canvassing liberated areas in Aleppo countryside, Syrian Arab Army units uncovered one of the hideouts of the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, the terrorist known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, in Anjara area 15 km west of Aleppo city. SANA’s camera documented the hideout from which al-Jolani had directed terrorist attacks on Aleppo […]

March 9, 2020 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government said that the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is a “terrorist attack” and pledged to deal with decisively. In a statement issued after an explosion that targeted Hamdok convoy in Khartoum, the government’s spokesman, Faisal Mohamed Saleh described the assassination attempt as a “terrorist attack” […]

TEHRAN – Mohammad Reza Rahchamani, a former Iranian MP, passed away on Monday of the coronavirus disease. Rahchamani, 64, died at the Masih Daneshvari Hospital. He was a reformist politician and represented Sabzevar in the Parliament from 1984 to 2000. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran’s State Welfare Organization. Rahchamani was born in 1952 […]

 Sudanese rescue teams and security forces gather next to a damaged vehicle at the site of an apparent assassination attemptagainst Abdalla Hamdok. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images Sudan’s prime minister has survived an apparent assassination attempt after an explosion went off near his convoy in the capital, Khartoum, according to state media. Abdalla Hamdok’s […]

  Paris (AFP) The world is set for its first annual decline in oil consumption in more than a decade due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the IEA said Monday. In its latest report — which did not take into account an oil price war after Saudi Arabia and Russia failed to agree […]

Health workers disinfect Istanbul’s metro trains during off hours, March 4, 2020. (DHA Photo) Twenty-six countries have enlisted Ankara’s expertise on the fight against the new coronavirus as Turkey continues to be virus-free despite seeing its neighbors from Iran to Greece report increasing numbers of confirmed cases As Turkey has managed to keep the coronavirus […]