Foreign Affairs

March 16, 2020
Australian TV editor suspects Hanks’ wife gave him virus

An Australian television network entertainment editor has tested positive for the new coronavirus after meeting Tom Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, in Sydney. Hanks and Wilson have been isolated in an...

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March 15, 2020
Coronavirus: Haiti shuts Dominican Republic border, suspends most international flights

Haiti, one of the few Caribbean nations with no recorded cases of the coronavirus, announced Sunday a shutdown of its border with the neighboring Dominican Republic, a ban on travel...

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March 15, 2020
Netanyahu rival Gantz chosen to form new Israeli government

Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz will be given the first opportunity to form a new government, the country's president said Sunday, raising questions about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political future...

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March 15, 2020
Pope leaves Vatican, prays for end to pandemic at 2 churches

Even as Italian health authorities demanded that people to stay home as much as possible to battle the country's severe coronavirus outbreak, Pope Francis left the Vatican to make a...

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March 15, 2020
Puerto Rico declares curfew, closes non-essential businesses amid coronavirus scare

Miami paywall drop embed Puerto Rico is instating a curfew and requiring non-essential businesses to close their doors, as the U.S. territory tries to contain the spread of the coronavirus....

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March 15, 2020
Flying in to Miami’s airport from Europe? You might get your temperature checked

Miami paywall drop embed Select passengers flying into Miami International Airport from Europe will have their temperature checked as part of the Trump administration's temporary travel restrictions, according to the...

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March 15, 2020
Christchurch marks anniversary of mosque shootings

People in the New Zealand city of Christchurch honored the 51 worshipers who were killed in a mass shooting a year ago in small but poignant ways Sunday, after a...

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March 15, 2020
Even small neighborhood stores are getting raided by coronavirus hoarders

Marlon Chavarria held his pants as he ran over to the tiny yellow store named Glady's 98 Cents and Up and grabbed the three cases of toilet paper from his...

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March 15, 2020
Iran’s coronavirus death toll leaps by 113 in a day, reaching 724

The coronavirus has claimed over 100 more victims in Iran in the last 24 hours, as rumors circulated that the government would put the whole country on lockdown ahead of...

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March 15, 2020
Europe widens lockdown as nations move to limit economic damage

Europeans were faced with increasingly draconian restrictions on public life Sunday, as governments from Spain to Scandinavia and the Baltic tried to check the spread of the coronavirus and limit...

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March 15, 2020
South Korea wants to show the world how to tackle the coronavirus

SOEUL, South Korea – South Korea has been praised for its effective response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now it wants to share its lessons with the world. South Korean President...

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March 15, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Italians cooped up by virus cope with creativity

Italians are cooped up at home by a government decree to combat the spread of coronavirus. They are coping creatively. A trumpeter on a balcony in Sicily blasts out “Imagine.”...

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March 15, 2020
Mexico holds big music festival despite coronavirus concerns

While the coronavirus pandemic has led authorities around the globe to cancel concerts and sporting events, and even shut down daily activities in some places, Mexico City is going ahead...

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March 14, 2020
Cayman records first COVID-19 death. Italian man was on same cruise as Puerto Rico couple

A 68-year-old Italian man, who became the Cayman Islands' first confirmed coronavirus patient and its first virus-related death Saturday, was on the same Italian cruise ship carrying Puerto Rico's two...

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March 14, 2020
Brazil’s president said he tested negative for coronavirus. He’ll be re-tested: report

Miami paywall drop embed Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro likely will be tested again for the novel coronavirus after a first test done Thursday showed a negative result, Brazilian news service...

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March 14, 2020
49 detained in Russia at Moscow protest against repression

Police in the Russian capital have detained dozens of people at a protest against political repression outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service. The OVD-Info group that monitors arrests...

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March 14, 2020
Puerto Rico health secretary resigns, school canceled amid coronavirus cases and hurdles

Miami paywall drop embed Puerto Rico's Secretary of Health has resigned and the U.S. territory is canceling schools and suspending cruise-ship traffic after three people tested positive for the coronavirus...

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March 14, 2020
Putin approves law that could keep him in power until 2036

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on constitutional changes that could keep him in power for another 16 years, a step that must still be approved in a...

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March 14, 2020
Trump won’t be tested after shaking hands with Brazilian official who got the coronavirus

President Donald Trump will not be tested for coronavirus after shaking the hand of a Brazilian official who later tested positive, the White House said in a statement late night...

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March 14, 2020
Iraq officials: Rocket attack hits base housing US troops

A barrage of rockets hit a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops north of Baghdad, Iraqi security officials said Saturday, just days after a similar attack killed three servicemen,...

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March 14, 2020
Rockets hit Iraqi base housing US troops for second time this week

Rockets hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led troops outside the capital Baghdad on Saturday, the second such attack this week on the site, the Iraqi military said. Thirty-three Katyusha...

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March 14, 2020
Putin signs sweeping constitutional changes into law

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a raft of amendments to the constitution including a stipulation to enable the Russian leader to seek reelection. The changes must be...

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March 14, 2020
Life upended for Europeans as raft of virus restrictions take effect

European nations have enacted sweeping restrictions on citizens' freedom to move around and socialize to combat the coronavirus outbreak, leaving shops shuttered, travel plans scrapped and streets empty. Late on...

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March 14, 2020
Virus prompts Romanians to bury hatchet and approve new cabinet

Romanian lawmakers approved a new government led by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, putting aside political differences to give him the power to confront the spreading coronavirus outbreak. The confirmation of...

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March 14, 2020
The day Trudeau put Canada into crisis mode from quarantine

Justin Trudeau had 24 hours to transform his governing Liberals from progressive champions to crisis managers. Canada's parliament kicked off the week with legislation to ban conversion therapy, a controversial...

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March 14, 2020
Monarch butterfly migration to Mexico drops by 53%, activists say

Mexico's forests this winter received 53% fewer monarch butterflies, a species that migrates south from Canada and the United States, according to figures published this week. Environmental organization World Wildlife...

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March 14, 2020
Across Middle East, efforts to stop coronavirus shake up daily life

Across the Middle East, efforts to stop the coronavirus were shaking up daily life, with countries restricting travel, postponing elections and even shutting down large parts of society. Israeli Prime...

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March 14, 2020
Morrison: All entering Australia required to self-isolate for 14 days

CANBERRA, Australia – Every person who arrives in Australia will have to self-isolate for 14 days as part of measures to stop the further spreading of the new coronavirus, Prime...

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March 13, 2020
Miami airport will be first in Florida to get, screen European flights for coronavirus

Miami paywall drop embed Miami International Airport has been approved to accept flights coming from Europe and screen passengers for COVID-19 two days after President Donald Trump announced tmporary travel...

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March 13, 2020
Death toll at 21 as Egypt storms, flooding enter 2nd day

Thunderstorms and flooding around Egypt entered a second day Friday, interrupting daily life in much of the country, including the capital Cairo, as the death toll rose to 21, authorities...

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March 13, 2020
Venezuela reports its first two cases of COVID-19, suspends classes

Miami paywall drop embed Venezuela on Friday confirmed its first two cases of the coronavirus and said it will suspend all classes starting Monday, as the fast-spreading virus has reached...

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March 13, 2020
President of Brazil, who dined with Trump in Florida, says he tested negative for coronavirus

Miami paywall drop embed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonarom, who visited South Florida last week and dined with President Donald Trump, said Friday he has tested negative for coronavirus, a day...

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March 13, 2020
Spain to declare state of emergency over virus outbreak

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the government will declare a two-week state of emergency in a bid to contain the new coronavirus outbreak. Sánchez said Friday that Spain will...

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March 13, 2020
Waiting days for results, Puerto Rico governor criticizes CDC for slow COVID-19 response

Puerto Rico's governor criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, saying it was unacceptable that the U.S. territory has had to wait for more than four days...

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March 13, 2020
What happens when the U.S. outsources asylum?

Instead of a court hearing, the Trump administration is giving Central Americans a chance to seek asylum — in Guatemala. … Click to Continue »

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March 13, 2020
Iraq army says US strikes kill 5 security forces, 1 civilian

Iraq's military said five security force members and a civilian were killed early Friday in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes launched hours after a rocket attack killed and wounded American...

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March 13, 2020
How a Mar-a-Lago member helped set up the Brazil summit that exposed Trump to coronavirus

A hastily announced international summit that brought Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro — and an apparent case of the coronavirus — to President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday was set...

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March 13, 2020
Italy’s coronavirus ground zero sets virtuous example

For three weeks, children's play has not echoed in the main piazza of the town of Codogno, overlooked by a statue of the town's patron St. Blaise, a 4th-Century physician....

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March 13, 2020
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson taking diagnoses ‘one day at a time’

Tom Hanks said he and wife Rita Wilson were taking their new coronavirus infection “one day at a time" while Australian television hosts who had interviewed Wilson were awaiting test...

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March 13, 2020
They survived the coronavirus. Then they tested positive again. Why?

BEIJING – The neighbors were free at last. After weeks of confinement to their apartments because one person in the building had tested positive for coronavirus, they were throwing a...

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