China has tightened checks on international travellers at Beijing airport and said it will centrally quarantine all arrivals at its capital, after new imported coronavirus cases surpassed locally transmitted infections for a second day.

The Afghan government has postponed its plan to release Taliban prisoners, a senior official said Saturday, throwing a precarious

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders meet on Sunday for the first one-on-one debate of the Democratic presidential primary campaign, now

An Israeli court yesterday postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s graft trial over coronavirus, as the premier relaunched

At least 4.8 million children were born since Syria’s war began nine years ago while 9,000 others have been killed or wounded in the conflict, the UN children’s agency said yesterday.

For reasons unknown, children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by COVID-19 and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts told AFP.

Indonesia’s transport minister is in intensive care after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, an official said Saturday, as schools

Chile has quarantined more than 1,300 people aboard two cruise ships after an elderly Briton aboard one of them tested positive for

India yesterday reported that the number of coronavirus infections had risen to 107, an increase of 23 from the day before, with a

Malaysia reported 190 new coronavirus cases yesterday, with most linked to a religious event at a mosque that was attended by 16,000 people from several countries.

President Donald Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus, his physician said, following concerns over his exposure to a disease that has paralyzed the globe.

Britain will isolate older people “within weeks” and force into quarantine anyone diagnosed with coronavirus, the government said as it stepped up measures that have so far been less stringent than elsewhere in Europe.

The new coronavirus has killed 113 people in Iran in the past 24 hours, raising the country’s death toll to 724, while the number of infected people had reached 13,938, a health ministry official says in Twitter..

In the wake of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, with Europe being the new epicenter, the ISIS terrorist group has advised its members to “stay away from the land of the epidemic”, reports The Sunday Times.

US President Donald Trump has tested negative for coronavirus, the president's physician, Sean Conley, says a statement.

Begona Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez, has tested positive for coronavirus, the prime minister’s office says.

Italians came out to sing together from windows and balconies and applaud their hard-pressed doctors and nurses as the death toll from Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreak kept climbing.

Moscow police detained dozens of people at a protest against “political repressions” near the headquarters of the Russian security

A top American General on Friday said that the US was enhancing its defence position in the Middle East after the latest tit-for-tat

New Zealand has cancelled a national remembrance service to mark Sunday’s first anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks