China virus toll rises to 170 as fear grows over global economic hit
Countries began isolating hundreds of citizens evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to stop the spread of an epidemic that has killed 170 people as worry about the impact on the world’s second-biggest economy rattled markets.
Russia to pause electronic visas to Chinese nationals: foreign ministry
Russia will temporarily stop issuing electronic visas to Chinese nationals from Thursday in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the foreign ministry said.
Policymakers fret over risk to global growth from China virus outbreak
A rapidly spreading virus outbreak in China is emerging as a potentially major new risk to the global economy and leaving policymakers, still grappling with the impact of the Sino-U.S. trade war, fretting over the widening fallout.
U.S. says will arrange more evacuation flights from Wuhan around February 3
The U.S. government will lay on extra evacuation flights from Wuhan with capacity for private U.S. citizens on or about Feb. 3, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday.
Heatwave and high winds threaten to reignite Australian wildfires
Swathes of southeast Australia were bracing on Thursday for a days-long heatwave that threatens to stoke bushfires that have been burning for months.
Eight foreign nationals caught in avalanche on Japan’s Hokkaido, one unconscious
Eight foreign nationals were caught up in an avalanche at a ski resort on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido on Thursday, one of whom was unconscious, police said.
Shot fired at Delhi protest against citizenship law, one wounded
An unidentified man fired at a protest against India’s new citizenship law near a university in Delhi on Thursday, wounding one person, witnesses said, the first such incident in the capital city during more than a month of demonstrations.
Tech heaven: Drone academy students help map out Africa’s future
For Ethiopian aeronautical engineer Lydia Elias, building and piloting a drone to support humanitarian and development projects on the continent of her birth has been a lifelong dream.
South Korean officials face eggs, invective over virus quarantine plans
Angry South Koreans volleyed eggs and expletives on Thursday at a minister and officials trying to defuse their ire over plans to quarantine hundreds of citizens set to be flown home from the epicenter of a new virus epidemic in China.
Greece wants floating fence to keep migrants out
Greece wants to install a floating barrier in the Aegean Sea to deter migrants arriving at its islands’ shores through Turkey, government officials said on Thursday.
