Coronavirus kills 12 in Iran, 61 infected: health ministry
Twelve people have died and 61 have been infected with the coronavirus in Iran, Tehran’s health ministry said on Monday.
Car drives into German carnival parade, around 30 injured: police
A driver plowed his car into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen on Monday injuring 30 people, including children, some of them seriously, police said on Monday.
Carnival incident was attack but no clues it was politically motivated crime: police to media
Germany’s Bild newspaper cited a police spokesman as saying he assumed an incident in which a car drove into a carnival parade on Monday was an attack but there were no indications that it was a politically motivated crime.
A police raid, viral videos and the broken lives of Nigerian gay law suspects
The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police truck into the glare of a sunny courtyard and a phalanx of cameras. Some clutched another’s hand, as if for comfort. They lined up on wooden benches in the dirt, almost all of them trying to hide the…
Sixth Italian dies from coronavirus in Europe’s worst flare-up
A sixth person infected with the coronavirus has died in Italy, officials said on Monday as the government battled to contain Europe’s worst outbreak of the illness and Italian shares tumbled nearly 5% on fears over the economic impact.
Eastern Libyan lawmakers not to join Geneva talks
Lawmakers based in areas of eastern Libya controlled by military commander Khalifa Haftar said on Monday they would not participate for now in peace talks with politicians allied to the internationally recognized government.
Virus can still be beaten, too early to declare pandemic: WHO
The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said on Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level.
Officials can’t rule out German carnival crash was an attack: Welt
The Interior Ministry in the state of Hesse cannot rule out that a car crash at a German carnival parade on Monday was an attack, newspaper Welt reported.
German police after carnival crash: No indication of danger elsewhere
German police, who said carnival parades in the state of Hesse had been canceled after a car drove into one such event in the town of Volkmarsen, said on Twitter they did not have any indication of a threat anywhere else in Germany at the moment.
Lesotho PM seeks immunity from charge of murdering second wife
Lesotho’s high court will rule on whether Prime Minister Thomas Thabane can claim immunity from a charge he murdered his wife prior to marrying his present spouse, a lower court decided on Monday, in a case gripping the tiny southern African kingdom.
