Gaza-Israel hostilities flare through second day with rocket attacks, air strikes
Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel, which responded with air strikes, in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks.
French regulator says pesticides a priority in curbing new plant diseases
France needs to retain pesticides to combat new plant diseases spread by international trade and climate change even as it tries to phase out some crop chemicals like glyphosate, the country’s health and safety agency said.
Canadian families ‘plead urgently’ for third evacuation flight from Wuhan
Canadian citizens and permanent residents who remain in Wuhan, China, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, need to be brought home on a third evacuation plane, a group of families urged the federal government.
Islamic Jihad says it has ended rocket fire after two days of Gaza-Israel hostilities
The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said on Monday it had ended its “military response” to Israel after two days of firing rockets from Gaza at its neighbour, which responded in turn with air strikes.
Dozens hurt as car plows into German carnival parade
A German man plowed his car into a carnival parade in the western town of Volkmarsen on Monday, injuring 30 people including children, police said, adding it was too early to say what his motive was.
Airlines plunge as Italian coronavirus outbreak threatens longer crisis
European budget airlines bore the brunt of Monday’s plunge in global stock markets as the arrival of the coronavirus in Italy pointed to a longer, deeper crisis than many have banked on.
Police investigate injured German, 29, suspected of driving into carnival
German prosecutors and police are investigating a 29-year-old German man suspected of driving into a crowd at a carnival in the town of Volkmarsen and he is being treated by doctors due to injuries he suffered in the incident, they said in a statement….
U.S. CDC confirms 14 coronavirus cases
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday there were 14 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country apart from the 39 cases among those evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and the city of Wuhan in China….
As Syrian forces advance on Idlib, families fear being trapped at Turkish border
Syrian government forces are advancing closer to the displaced persons camp where Adnan Abdelkarim and his family have taken shelter along the Turkish border after being uprooted multiple times, and he fears there is nowhere left to go.
Driver of car that crashed into carnival is injured: prosecutors to media
A spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt said the driver of a car that ploughed into a crowd of people at a carnival parade in the town of Volkmarsen was injured so could not immediately be questioned, regional news program Hessensch…
