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The tally of cases in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council now stands at more than 1,700. Bahrain reported a second death on Sunday.

Bangkok Airways and Thai AirAsia have cancelled all international flights while Thai Lion Air has grounded its fleet entirely.

The 108 participants, aged between 18 and 60, will be tested in three groups and given different dosages. They are all residents of the central city of Wuhan.

More than 274,800 people have been infected across the world and 11,389 have died due to the novel coronavirus.

In death, Dr. Li Wenliang became the face of simmering anger at the ruling Communist Party's controls over information and complaints that officials lie about or hide disease outbreaks, industrial accidents, natural disasters and financial frauds, while p...

Syed Rehman, who runs art galleries called Modern Art Wall, has in an Instagram offered to come to the aid of anyone who may need help for buying groceries, essentials and medicines.

Al-Mawli 'was previously active in al-Qaeda in Iraq and is known for torturing innocent Yazidi religious minorities,' US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

With the measures outlined - including extreme social distancing and advice to avoid clubs, pubs and theatres - the epidemic's curve and peak could be flattened, the scientists said.

At least three rockets struck the Green Zone, the seat of Iraq's government and home to several foreign embassies on Tuesday a day after an attack on a US-coalition base camp.

Existing gun owners began stocking up on ammunition after seeing American grocery stores depleted, schools closed and big events canceled due to the virus outbreak.

The fatality was Ayatollah Hashem Bathayi Golpayegani, a member of the Assembly of Experts — an 88-strong body of clerics that appoints and monitors the country's supreme leader.

The Fed on Sunday made its second emergency rate cut in less than two weeks to shore up confidence and keep the financial sector running.

Apple Inc said it will be closing all its retail stores outside Greater China until March 27 to contain the transmission of virus.

Contrary to medical advice, the president was seen Friday shaking hands all round as he gathered his coronavirus response team at the White House -- a practice he said Saturday owed to long-time habit as a politician but which he said would have to change...

The Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust medical charity are each contributing up to $50 million, and the Mastercard Impact Fund has committed up to $25 million for initial projects.

There's one big difference between flu and coronavirus: A vaccine exists to help prevent the flu and it's not too late to get it. It won't protect you from catching the coronavirus, but may put you in a better position to fight it.