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    In ex-communist Eastern Europe and elsewhere, rulers are assuming more power while they introduce harsh measures they say are necessary to halt...

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  • Crammed in filthy cells, political prisoners fear infection

    In some cells in Iran, Syria and other countries in the Middle East, prisoners are crammed in by the dozens, with little access to hygiene or medical...

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  • China state media reports 19 people killed in forest fire

    China's state media say 19 people died while fighting a raging forest fire in southwestern China

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  • China state media report 19 people have died while fighting a raging forest fire in southwestern province of Sichuan

    China state media report 19 people have died while fighting a raging forest fire in southwestern province of Sichuan

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    Stay up to date on the developing stories making headlines.

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  • Police, local officials stand at attention outside hospital

    Police and local officials in Verona, Italy, saluted and gave a round of applause to medical workers battling against the coronavirus.

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  • Prisoners riot in Iran amid region's worst virus outbreak

    Iranian state-run media say prisoners in southern Iran broke cameras and caused other damage during a riot

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  • Spokesman: Kurdish forces end riots by IS prisoners in Syria

    Syrian activists say imprisoned Islamic State militants have rioted again at a jail in northeastern Syria, hours after the Kurdish-led forces running...

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  • Mexican supermarket uses temporary coronavirus screens

    A grocery store in Toluca, Mexico, separated customers from staff with makeshift screens.

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  • Fearing Gaza virus spread, Hamas preps for mass quarantines

    The Gaza Strip has been largely cut off from the world for more than a decade by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade

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  • Dubai's Emaar posts $1.68B in profit, but revenue slips

    Dubai's premier developer Emaar Properties has posted net profits of $1.68 billion for 2019, but revenue slightly dipped for the builder of the...

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  • 4.2 quake hits southern Puerto Rico amid coronavirus curfew

    A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has hit Puerto Rico at a shallow depth and was felt across the U.S. territory

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  • Van Gogh painting stolen in raid from museum closed due to coronavirus

    The painting has been added to Interpol's list of stolen artworks.

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  • Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

    The coronavirus is taking root in the world’s most unequal region after many of Latin America's first cases arrived with members of the elite...

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  • Moscow goes into lockdown, rest of Russia braces for same

    The Russian capital has woken up to a lockdown obliging most people in the city of 13 million to stay home

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  • Coronavirus, lemur twins and President Trump: World in Photos, March 30

    A look at the top photos from around the globe.

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  • Dubai Expo 2020 recommends postponing a year amid virus

    Local organizers of Dubai's Expo 2020 have recommended postponing til next year the event over the new coronavirus pandemic

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  • Hungary approves extra government powers, with no end date

    Hungary's parliament has approved a bill giving Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government extraordinary powers during the coronavirus pandemic, and...

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  • Woman convicted in Thai knife attack held in girl's death

    A woman who served four years in prison for a random knife attack at a girls' school in Thailand in 2005 is being held in the fatal stabbing of a...

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  • In Zimbabwe, 'you win coronavirus or you win starvation'

    As Zimbabwe enters lockdown, people in the economically shattered country are forced to choose between daily survival and measures to protect...

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  • Philippines grounds company's aircraft after deadly fire

    Philippine aviation officials are grounding all aircraft belonging to the company that owns a plane that caught fire while taking off from Manila's...

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  • 'Once a nurse, always a nurse': 20,000 former UK medics return to battle coronavirus

    “My uniform is clean, my shoes are polished and I am ready to go back.”

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  • Greek WWII resistance hero Manolis Glezos dies at 97

    Manolis Glezos, a Greek World War II resistance hero who remained active in politics into his nineties, has died in Athens

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  • Organizers of Dubai's Expo 2020 recommend postponing the world's fair until next year over the new coronavirus pandemic

    Organizers of Dubai's Expo 2020 recommend postponing the world's fair until next year over the new coronavirus pandemic

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  • Gunmen kill New Zealand man near Indonesia's Freeport mine

    Gunmen have killed a New Zealand miner and wounded six others near the world's largest gold mine in Indonesia's easternmost Papua region

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  • Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office says he'll go into quarantine after an aide tested positive for coronavirus

    Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office says he'll go into quarantine after an aide tested positive for coronavirus

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  • German experts say growth rebound could be relatively quick

    Top German economists are predicting a steep downturn during the virus outbreak but think the recovery could also be quick

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  • Afghan officials say Taliban attacks kill 11 troops, police

    Afghanistan's Defense Ministry and a provincial official say Taliban attacks have killed at least 11 soldiers and policemen

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  • City at center of China's virus outbreak gradually revives

    Shopkeepers in the city at the center of China’s virus outbreak are reopening but customers are scarce as authorities lift more of the anti-virus...

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• Mar 29

  • Authority: Stranded ships begin transiting Panama Canal

    The Panama Canal Authority says two cruise ships carrying more than 1,800 passengers and crew stranded off the Central American country and hoping to...

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  • Iran defends virus response as Syria reports first death

    Iran's president has lashed out at criticism of authorities' lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East

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  • IS militants riot in eastern Syria prison, some escape

    A Syrian Kurdish official says Islamic State militants rioted inside in a prison in northeastern Syria, wrestling control from guards on an entire...

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  • Riot breaks out at prison in northeast Thailand

    Officials in Thailand say a riot at a prison in a northeastern province was set off when inmates plotting to escape spread false rumors that several...

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  • Plane catches fire at Manila airport, killing all 8 aboard

    A plane carrying eight people has caught fire while attempting to take off from Manila’s airport on a flight bound for Japan, killing all those on...

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  • US-led forces pull out of 3rd Iraqi base this month

    U.S.-led coalition forces have pulled out of an Iraqi military base that nearly brought Washington into an open war with Iran

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  • In Somalia, coronavirus goes from fairy tale to nightmare

    Nearly three decades of conflict, extremist attacks, drought, disease and even a devastating new outbreak of locusts have strained Somalia

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  • Indian PM apologizes for 21-day lockdown hardships

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has apologized for imposing a three-week national lockdown, calling it harsh but “needed to win” the battle...

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  • Germany's Merkel shines in virus crisis even as power wanes

    Chancellor Angela Merkel has run Germany for more than 14 years and has over a decade's experience of managing crises

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  • Dubai firm tied to Trump posts loss as virus downturn looms

    DAMAC Properties, Dubai's largest, fully private real estate developer, has posted its first yearly loss since becoming a publicly traded company in...

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  • North Korea test fires missiles amid worries about outbreak

    Seoul calls it “very inappropriate” with the world battling coronavirus pandemic

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  • In Egypt, transgender activist fights battle on many fronts

    At 20, Malak el-Kashif is perhaps Egypt’s most outspoken transgender woman activist

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• Mar 28

  • Quake shakes eastern Indonesia amid virus outbreak

    A strong inland and shallow earthquake has hit parts of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, sending people fleeing despite appeals by officials to keep...

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  • South Korea says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea

    South Korea says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea

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  • Saudi forces destroy missile fired over capital Riyadh

    Saudi Arabia's Air Defense Forces say they have intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile over the capital

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  • Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble

    Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, the Brazilian president has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of...

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  • AP PHOTOS: Italy's front-line medical heroes, in portraits

    The doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and...

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  • Virus prevention measures turn violent in parts of Africa

    Virus-prevention measures have taken a violent turn in parts of Africa as countries impose lockdowns and curfews or seal off major cities

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  • China sends medical aid to Pakistan to combat virus outbreak

    China has sent a plane loaded with medical personnel and supplies to help fight the spread of the coronavirus in the nation of 220 million people

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  • Russia's Rosneft oil company ceasing Venezuela operations

    Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft oil company says it is ceasing operations and selling its assets in Venezuela

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