China coronavirus outbreak: All the latest updates
The infection has now spread to eight Middle Eastern countries, with more than 79,000 cases worldwide.
Kuwait, Bahrain, Afghanistan and Iraq on Monday reported their first infections from the coronavirus, which has killed more than 2,600 globally, the vast majority in China.
Kuwait reported three cases, while Bahrain and Iraq each confirmed one, bringing the number of countries in the Middle East with the virus, known as COVID-19, to eight.
Meanwhile, Turkey, Pakistan and Armenia have closed their borders with Iran, as authorities reported 43 coronavirus infections and 12 deaths.
Julian Assange hearing: 'journalism is no excuse for breaking law'
Lawyers for US government deliver opening arguments as extradition case begins
Reporting for journalism is not an excuse for breaking laws, lawyers acting for the US government have said on the first day of a legal battle over whether the WikiLeaks founder can be extradited from the UK.
The US case was opened on Monday at Woolwich crown court in south-east London by James Lewis QC, who said that by disseminating material in an unredacted form Assange knowingly put human rights activists, dissidents, journalists and their families at risk of serious harm in states operated by oppressive regimes.
“The defence seek to suggest that the risk to these individuals who, by having the individuals revealed as informants, is somehow overstated. I would remind the court that these were individuals who were passing on information on regimes such as Iran and organisations such as al-Qaida.”
Western powers could help conclude the war in Yemen swiftly – instead they're protracting it for profit
The United States, United Kingdom and France continue to provide weapons for a war that they admit in private moments is morally bankrupt and strategically counterproductiveBorzou Daragahi
Among the many dreadful incidents in the Middle East last week was the little-noticed story of a soldier fighting for government forces in Yemen who, upon finding out he wasn’t getting paid, promptly pulled out his gun and shot himself dead in the middle of the Aden headquarters of the First Infantry Brigade.
The death of a young man apparently distraught over his inability to feed his family was a reminder of the misery enveloping Yemen’s non-stop war, one of several grinding conflicts that have turned major stretches of the Middle East and North Africa into landscapes of horror and deprivation.
Head constable killed in Delhi violence
NEW DELHI,
Several members belonging to the minority community were thrashed by a mob just before the Khajuri Khas area.
A Delhi Police head constable Ratan Lal died in the violence that erupted over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Jaffarabad, Maujpur and Bhajanpura areas in North East Delhi on Monday. A PTI report said that DCP Shahadra Amit Sharma was also injured and sent to hospital. Mr. Lal succumbed to his injuries suffered on account of stone pelting.
Several members belonging to the minority community were thrashed by a mob just before the Khajuri Khas area. People belonging to the minority community were reportedly singled out — whether they were on foot or in vehicles — and beaten up, according to our reporter on the ground. Later, the police arrived in the area.
Prague renames square in front of Russian embassy after slain Putin critic Boris Nemtsov
Updated 1019 GMT (1819 HKT) February 24, 2020
When a group of politicians in Prague decided to honor the murdered Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov by naming a square after him, there was just one location they had in mind: The plaza in front of the Russian embassy.
Prague City Council voted on Monday in favor of renaming what was known for decades as "Under the Chestnuts Square" to "Boris Nemtsov Square," according to the city's mayor, Zdeněk Hřib.
The official renaming will take place on February 27, the fifth anniversary of the opposition leader's killing.
Mainstream Democrats shouldn’t fear Bernie Sanders
He’d be a strong nominee and a solid president.By
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s win in Nevada following his New Hampshire victory marks the Vermont senator as the clear frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination.
Alarm, clearly visible in a range of mainstream Democratic circles over the past several weeks, is now going to kick into overdrive.
But this frame of mind is fundamentally misguided. For all the agita around Sanders’s all-or-nothing rhetoric, his behavior as a longtime member of Congress (and before that as a mayor) suggests a much more pragmatic approach to actual legislating than some of the wilder “political revolution” rhetoric would suggest.
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