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A grocery store vendor uses his mobile phone to check online orders of customers at the Al-Mubarakiya market in Kuwait City, Kuwait, April 5, 2020. The novel coronavirus pandemic leads…

Carnival Corp's troubled Ruby Princess cruise liner, the biggest single source of coronavirus infections in Australia, docked south of Sydney on Monday to get help for sick crew members requiring urgent medical…

A deadly Pacific cyclone intensified as it hit Vanuatu on Monday, threatening a natural disaster that experts fear will undermine the impoverished Pacific nation's battle to remain coronavirus-free. Tropical Cyclone…

Cardinal George Pell will learn whether his appeal against child sex abuse convictions has been successful this week, when Australia's High Court hands down its judgment on Wednesday. The former…

Residents light candles and turn on their mobile phone lights outside their home to observe a nine-minute vigil in a show of solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus in…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing a face mask amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19, attends an upper house committee meeting at the parliament in Tokyo on Wednesday. Photo:…

Chinese medical team members arrive at Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood) By Li Qiao Chinese expert volunteers dispatched by the Red Cross Society…

Workers unload boxes of protective medical equipments and material from a Ukrainian AN-124 cargo plane, arriving from China, on Saturday at Liszt Ferenc Airport in Budapest, Hungary amid the spread of…

 Photo: IC By Ni Hao and Leng Shumei The risk of imported cases to China from neighboring countries is increasing, an official noted Monday, after a Chinese port city near…