South Korea coronavirus infections surge past 430
By Helen Regan and Adam Renton, CNN
Updated 6:53 a.m. ET, February 22, 2020
The increase in confirmed cases beyond China has become a cause for concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Saturday.
"Although the total number of cases outside China remains relatively small, we are concerned about the number of cases with no clear epidemiological link, such as travel history to China or contact with a confirmed case," he said.
Iran elections: conservatives heading for large majority
Likely outcome reflects frustration at collapsing living standards and relations with the west
Iran’s conservatives are heading for a large overall majority in the country’s parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results, an outcome that reflects frustration with collapsing living standards and the apparent dead end of engagement with the west.
It means strong supporters of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will control all the main levers of power in Iran except for the presidency. The reformists, elected four years ago on a ticket of engagement with the west, had been the largest party in parliament but found many of their proposals blocked by other centres of power in Iran, notably the Guardian Council.
'I don't know when we will go out again’: Chinese citizens trapped at home by coronavirus feel the strain
"Every day there's fighting. Every day we sigh. Every day I'm scolded,” says teenager who has been unable to leave her grandmother's apartment for weeks
Huizhong Wu
During weeks holed up in her grandmother's apartment with 10 relatives and eating a restricted diet, Chinese teenager Li Yuxuan says tempers have frayed.
Ms Li and her family are among the millions of people across China's Hubei province, epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, who are subject to official orders to stay at home amid attempts to contain the spread of the disease.
Officials and volunteers have sealed off buildings, erected barricades and stepped up surveillance to ensure compliance with the ban on movement, measures that are taking a toll on many in the community.
'Ferhat wanted to do something good for Hanau'
What comes after a racist attack? In the wake of an attack on their city, many Hanau residents with foreign roots have mixed feelings about the future. For the family of Ferhat Unvar, the world has stopped turning.
Two days after the extremist far-right murders in Hanau, something resembling normal everyday life is returning to the streets around the city's central Heumarkt area. Not far from the Midnight shisha bar, which is still cordoned off, people of different ages and backgrounds go in and out of bakeries, drugstores, and banks.
Just a few meters from the scene of the crime is Mustafa Bayram's grocery stand. The 59-year-old Turkish-Kurdish man sits behind a glass counter filled with baklava, stuffed dates, and sunflower seeds. "I have been here for over five years. I'm not afraid. Why should I be afraid, if I get on well with my customers, with the people?" Bayram has lived in Germany since 1978. Aside from a robbery, he says nothing has ever happened to him here.
Joint French-Nigerien military operation 'neutralises' more than 100 jihadists in Niger
A joint operation by Nigerien and French troops in southwest Niger killed 120 "terrorists" and seized bomb-making equipment and vehicles, the country's defence ministry said Friday.
As of February 20 "120 terrorists have been neutralised" in the operation in the vast Tillaberi region near the border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the statement said, adding there had been no losses among Nigerien or French troops.
Niger's defence minister Issoufou Katambe praised the "cooperation... in the battle against terrorism," according to the statement.
L'Arche founder Jean Vanier sexually abused women - internal report
A religious leader who founded a celebrated organisation for people with learning difficulties sexually abused six women in France, an internal report found.
Canadian Jean Vanier founded the global network L'Arche in France in 1964 and died last year aged 90.
None of the women he abused were themselves disabled, the report says.
An investigation into Vanier was commissioned by L'Arche International last year after suspicions were raised.
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