Albania halts schools, Italy flights, ferries over coronavirus
Albania reported its first coronavirus infections on Monday – two men who returned from Italy and four family members of one of them – prompting the government to shut down schools for two weeks and cancel flights and ferries to Italy until April 3.
On ‘day without us’ protest, some Mexican women prefer to work
Millions of women across Mexico stayed home from factories, offices and schools on Monday in protest at gender violence – but some who turned up to their jobs said work was its own kind of protest.
ECB asks some staff to work from home after employee diagnosed with coronavirus
A European Central Bank employee has been diagnosed with coronavirus and the bank has asked around 100 of its employees who work in the proximity of the affected staff member to work from home, it said late on Monday.
Japan’s Hyogo prefecture reports two new coronavirus cases: Kyodo
Japan’s Hyogo prefecture reported two new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, Kyodo said, adding to public broadcaster NHK’s nationwide tally of 1,190 a day earlier.
Blackwater founder Prince’s company enters Congo insurance industry
The Democratic Republic of Congo has granted an insurance license to a subsidiary of Hong-Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), a security and logistics company run by Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater.
Factbox: Airlines suspend flights due to coronavirus outbreak
Airlines across the globe have suspended flights or modified services in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Factbox: Italy orders nationwide lockdown to combat back coronavirus
The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented new attempt to beat coronavirus in Europe’s worst-affected country.
Italy extends coronavirus lockdown to whole country as new cases surge
The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented and unexpected new attempt to beat coronavirus in Europe’s worst-affected country.
Stocks savaged, Italy on lockdown, prisons in uproar as coronavirus spreads
All of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets and rioting prisoners made clear on Monday how the global coronavirus epidemic was extending its reach into all aspects of social and economic life.
Canada seeks to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy
The Canadian federal government introduced new legislation on Monday to criminalize LGBTQ conversion therapy, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government moves to fulfill one of its 2019 election promises.
