French court overturns earlier guilty verdict on cardinal Barbarin
A French appeals court on Thursday overturned an earlier ruling against Philippe Barbarin, a Roman Catholic cardinal who was convicted last year of failing to report sexual abuse charges.
Russian plane makes emergency landing after passenger bomb threat
Russian airline S7 said on Thursday one of its planes had been forced to make an emergency landing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport after a passenger stood in the aisle and said she had an explosive device.
Malta court condemns minister for clearing journalist memorial
Malta’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday that former justice minister Owen Bonnici had violated freedom of expression when he repeatedly ordered government workers to clean away a makeshift memorial to murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Get us out of here, plead foreign students at China virus epicenter
Foreign students stuck in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavurus outbreak, are launching social media campaigns, making phone calls and writing letters urging their governments to get them out as soon as possible.
China virus deaths rise to 170 as hit to global economy looms
Hundreds of foreign evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan entered quarantine on Thursday as deaths from a fast-spreading virus rose to 170 and markets shuddered at the impact of an inevitable big hit to the world’s No. 2 economy.
Factbox: What to watch from the WHO statement on the new coronavirus
A World Health Organization panel is meeting in Geneva on Thursday to assess the latest evolution in the new coronavirus, which has killed 170 people and spread from China to at least 16 other countries.
Russia frees U.S.-Israeli backpacker after Putin pardon
Russia freed a U.S.-Israeli woman on Thursday who had been jailed on drugs charges, after President Vladimir Putin granted her a pardon.
Three Japanese evacuees from Wuhan test positive for virus, 2 had no symptoms
Two of three Japanese people evacuated from China and found to be infected with a new coronavirus had not shown symptoms, the health ministry said on Thursday, adding to worries about the fast-spreading virus and its economic fallout.
South Korean officials face eggs, invective as quarantine plane takes off
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 epicentre of a new virus epidemic in China.
Immigration to Switzerland rises ahead of vote on EU free-movement deal
Net immigration to Switzerland rose again last year, official data showed on Thursday, ahead of a May referendum pushed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party on ending an accord with the European Union on the free movement of citizens.
