The United States on Friday summoned China’s ambassador after a senior official in Beijing tweeted the “ridiculous” suggestion that the US military started the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Department said.

All United Nations staff at its headquarters in New York were told Friday to work from home for at least three weeks due to the

The British government will ban mass gatherings from next week in an attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak, an escalation of its

Manila will impose a night-time curfew in the city of 12 million, officials said yesterday, as the Philippines steps up efforts to curb

Despite being poorer and more densely populated than China and having a shakier healthcare system, India has officially recorded only 81 cases of the coronavirus and just one death.

Can a single COVID-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many.

Italians blocked in their homes by the coronavirus outbreak joined together to sing patriotic songs from their balconies, a defiant response to a crisis that has pushed the country’s health system to the limit and turned daily life on its head.

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

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran’s fight against the coronavirus is being “severely hampered” by US sanctions, as state television reports that the death toll from the illness rises to 611, up nearly 100 from a day earlier.

US President Donald Trump takes a coronavirus test, and his administration extends a travel ban to Britain and Ireland to try to contain a pandemic that has shut down much of the daily routine of American life.

Leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will hold a videoconference to chalk out a strong common strategy to fight the COVID-19 in the region.

Bangladeshi expatriates in Canada will organise a three-day voluntary blood donation programme from March 17 to mark Mujib Borsho.

Emirates is operating its last flight from Rome today for the time being, said a press release from the airline.

Microsoft on Friday announces that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy.

President Donald Trump declares a national emergency in what critics say was a long-delayed admission of the gravity of the coronavirus crisis that's triggered the shutdown of schools, sporting events, offices and travel in the world's richest country.

A 68-year-old woman died of coronavirus in New Delhi, the Indian government says, in the country’s second death linked to the disease.

A Chinese government campaign to cast doubt on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic is fuelling a row with the US, with a Beijing official promoting conspiracy theories and Washington calling it the “Wuhan virus”.

Turkish and Russian officials yesterday agreed to start joint patrols in Syria’s Idlib at the weekend, Turkey’s defence minister said, following a fragile ceasefire in the last rebel stronghold.

Thousands of people have died, the US response has infuriated European allies, and China has gone on a propaganda offensive. The new coronavirus is shaping up to be a cataclysmic event with far-reaching consequences in global politics.