Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:14:29 +0000
ROME: An elderly cancer patient became the third person known to be infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) to die in Italy, health officials said on Sunday, as the number of people contracting the virus continued to mount. The death of the woman in a hospital in the small city of Crema in Lombardy, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Global Times| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:13:55 +0000
ANKARA: Turkey has yet to fulfill its obligations under a 2018 agreement regarding Syria’s last rebel stronghold of Idlib, the Kremlin said. According to the TASS news agency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Turkey failed to ensure the withdrawal of heavy weapons in the Idlib de-escalation zone. Weapons have fallen into the hands of militants […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:13:06 +0000
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) is trying its best to avoid chaos as leaders are to hold a Brussels summit Thursday (Friday in Manila) to set a seven-year budget despite splits between some stingy rich nations, poorer ones wanting to preserve spending and others wanting to fund grand global ambitions. The money tussle, hard-fought at […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:12:25 +0000
LONDON: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will return to the United Kingdom later this month to carry out their final official engagements before they step down as senior members of the royal family, a spokesman for the couple said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila). In a guidance statement, the spokesman confirmed that Harry and Meghan’s […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Global Times| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:06:20 +0000
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan insisted Monday that his country is no longer a militant safe haven, and said his administration fully supports the Afghan peace process. Khan’s comments come as the United States and the Taliban appear on the brink of a deal that would see US forces begin to pull out of […]
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Credit to Author: Douglas Todd| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:46:28 +0000
OPINION: One of Azim Shariff’s novel discoveries is Canadian children were more generous than those from South Africa, Turkey, the United States, Jordan and China.
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Credit to Author: Joanne Lee-Young| Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:11:43 +0000
The important nuance is that the fear is actually a concern for others rather than a fear of the contagion itself.
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Credit to Author: Joanne Lee-Young| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:50:50 +0000
On Wednesday, China announced that the number of coronavirus cases has jumped to more than 60,000, but there are only four known cases in B.C., a number that hasn’t changed in several days.
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Credit to Author: Joanne Lee-Young| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:08:49 +0000
In Metro, volunteers are connecting over messaging app WeChat to help travellers arriving from China.
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Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:09:56 +0000
The Canadians were among 41 positive tests for the virus identified in the latest round of tests. Seven Canadians in total have tested positive
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