Britain names new MI5 chief: the spy who investigated 2018 Novichok attack
Britain on Monday named Ken McCallum, a career spy who led the response to the attempted murder of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal, as the new head of its MI5 domestic intelligence agency.
China will step up prevention and control of asymptomatic coronavirus cases
China will step up prevention and control of asymptomatic coronavirus cases, state media reported on Monday, quoting a meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.
Face mask rule could help when unwinding lockdown: German health ministry
An obligation for the general public to wear masks may have a role to play when Germany starts unwinding the lockdown measures that are currently in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, a health ministry spokesman said.
Tokyo governor asks residents to stay away from bars to slow coronavirus spread
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on Monday asked residents to stay away from bars and music venues, stepping up her call for people to cut back on unnecessary travel as Japan’s capital braces for a rise in coronavirus infections.
Gunmen kill New Zealand man at Freeport mine office in Indonesia’s Papua
Attackers shot dead a New Zealand man and wounded six other people at an office of the Indonesian arm of mining company Freeport-McMoRan Inc on Monday, police said.
Indonesia to limit people’s mobility as study warns of surge in coronavirus deaths
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday he planned stricter rules on mobility and social distancing as a study presented to the government warned that more than 140,000 people could die from the coronavirus by May unless it takes tougher actio…
Ukraine dusts off Soviet-era ventilator designs to help fight coronavirus
Ukraine is dusting off Soviet-era ventilator designs that lay forgotten in a mothballed military factory for years in a bid to ramp up domestic production of equipment that could help in the fight against the coronavirus.
Indian police fire tear gas on jobless workers defying coronavirus lockdown
Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said on Monday.
Germany: Coronavirus spreading too fast for us to loosen restrictions
Coronavirus is spreading too fast for restrictions on public life in Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, to be lifted yet, a spokesman for the German government said on Monday.
‘This is bliss’: Chinese barber has clients queuing up as Wuhan eases lockdown
For barber Xiong Juan, a recent easing of restrictions in the city of Wuhan, epicenter of China’s coronavirus outbreak, means she is now busier than ever.
