Turkey’s Erdogan replaces transport minister amid virus outbreak
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan replaced Transport Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan in an overnight decree on Saturday, as the country battles a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak that has so far claimed 108 lives in just over two weeks.
Ex-Venezuelan spy chief Carvajal in process of surrendering to U.S. authorities: sources
The former head of Venezuela’s military intelligence unit, Hugo Carvajal, is in the process of surrendering to U.S. authorities, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, after prosecutors charged him on Thursday with drug trafficking, alongsid…
Pope and closest aides do not have coronavirus: Vatican
The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the building where Pope Francis lives after one resident tested positive for coronavirus showed that the pontiff and his closest aides do not have the disease.
Lombardy coronavirus deaths near 6,000 as Italy mulls extending lockdown
Italy’s Lombardy region, which has borne the worst of the coronavirus contagion, recorded 542 new deaths on Saturday as the national government was said to be mulling plans to extend a country-wide lockdown to mid-April.
Lebanese police remove Beirut protest camp
Lebanese security forces cleared away a protest camp in central Beirut on Saturday and reopened roads blocked by demonstrators since protests against the governing elite started in October.
UK coronavirus deaths top 1,000 as country steps up testing
Medical workers in England on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic started to be tested on Saturday as the number of COVID-19 deaths in Britain topped 1,000 after a record 260 people died in the previous 24 hours.
UK will have done well if fewer than 20,000 die, NHS medical director says
The United Kingdom will have done well if it comes through the coronavirus crisis with fewer than 20,000 deaths, Stephen Powis, the national medical director of the National Health Service, said on Saturday.
Albania flies 30 doctors to Italy to help with coronavirus crisis
Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, flew a team of doctors and nurses to neighboring Italy on Saturday to help it deal with the coronavirus pandemic as its own cases have yet to strain the health sector.
‘Just one case’: fears coronavirus may spread like wildfire in world’s refugee camps
In the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, filmmaker Mohammed Arafat has been making public safety videos to warn about the dangers of coronavirus.
Bosnian Serb region declares state of emergency over coronavirus
Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic declared a state of emergency on Saturday, handing legislative powers to the region’s president to expedite the passage of laws to ease the impact of the coronavirus epidemic.
