Iranian authorities warned Friday they may use “force” to limit travel between cities and announced the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour offered the figures at a televised news conference. He did not elaborate on the threat to use force, though he […]

The United States jails and prisons are on high alert, stepping up inmate screenings, sanitizing jail cells and urging lawyers to scale back in-person visits to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading through their vast inmate populations. There have been no reports of COVID-19 inside U.S. jails or prisons. But more people are incarcerated per […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has extended by one-year sanctions against Zimbabwe saying that the new government’s policies continue to pose an “unusual and extraordinary” threat to U.S. foreign policy. The renewal comes despite calls by African leaders, including South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, for the sanctions to be lifted to give the country a chance to […]

United States President Donald Trump insisted Friday that sexism wasn’t to blame for the end of Elizabeth Warren’s Democratic presidential campaign, even as he showered her with insults that are often deployed against women. Speaking to reporters as he signed an emergency $8.3 billion funding package to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak, Trump was asked whether he […]

Gunmen killed five villagers in an eastern region of Chad plagued by deadly ethnic violence between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers, local officials said Friday. The attack took place on Thursday near the Sudan border in the Sila region, where President Idriss Deby lifted a state of emergency in January in hopes the violence had […]

The University of Washington on Friday announced that it was moving all classes online as the western US state faces the country’s deadliest outbreak of the new coronavirus. In an email to students, university president Ana Mari Cauce said the precautionary social distancing decision, taken in consultation with public health officials, aimed to “ensure the […]

Hungary said Friday it would suspend the issuing of visas to Iranian citizens, after confirming that three out of the four cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed in the EU member so far involved Iranians. “The Hungarian government has indefinitely suspended the issuing of visas to Iranian citizens,” Tibor Lakatos, head of the government’s coronavirus […]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), on Friday, said in Geneva that more than 20,000 migrants died in the Mediterranean since migration in the region started surging in 2014. According to IOM, the latest mass drowning occurred in early February, when a boat with at least 91 people on board went missing North of the […]

U.S. stock markets tanked and the Dow Jones Industrials shed more than 800 points on Friday, as the global tally of coronavirus infections surpassed 100,000 and jittery investors took cover in the perceived safety of bonds and gold. The outbreak, which spread to four new U.S. states on Thursday, has crippled supply chains and prompted […]

The United States government announced Friday it is ready to begin collecting DNA from all immigrants it detains, to be saved in a federal police database. The Department of Homeland Security first revealed the measure in October as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts against undocumented migration, attracting strong criticism from civil liberties groups and […]