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Global Coronavirus: Europe lifts virus shutters as Japan ends emergency

Europeans flocked to parks, gyms and pools on Monday as more countries eased coronavirus restrictions, while Japan lifte...

May 26, 2020 5 min read

Coronavirus: latest global developments: South America new epicentre

South America has become "a new epicentre" of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, following a surge ...

May 23, 2020 3 min read

Asia virus latest: cyclone prompts infection fears; Korea football row over sex dolls

At least 88 people died as the fiercest cyclone to hit parts of Bangladesh and eastern India this century sent trees fly...

May 22, 2020 4 min read

Super cyclone leaves trail of destruction in Bangladesh, India

The most powerful cyclone to hit Bangladesh and eastern India in more than 20 years tore down homes, carried cars down f...

May 21, 2020 3 min read

US Fed watching global economy for signs of infection from virus

The deadly virus outbreak in China has put the US Federal Reserve on alert for possible contagion to the domestic and gl...

January 30, 2020 3 min read

New coronavirus study places incubation period at around 5 days

The period between exposure to the new coronavirus that originated in China and symptoms is 5.2 days on average, but var...

January 30, 2020 2 min read

Xi says China fighting 'demon' virus as nations prepare airlifts

China is battling a "demon" virus that has so far killed more than 100 people, President Xi Jinping said Tuesday, as fo...

January 29, 2020 4 min read

China curbs travel abroad as virus toll tops 100

China on Tuesday urged its citizens to postpone travel abroad as it expanded unprecedented efforts to contain a viral ou...

January 28, 2020 4 min read

Global alarm grows as China's capital reports first virus death

China's capital on Monday recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spread...

January 28, 2020 4 min read

Oil, equities hit by fears over economic impact of deadly virus

Fears over the global economic impact of the deadly China virus sent oil prices plunging more than two percent on Monday...

January 27, 2020 3 min read

US stocks steady as WHO says new China virus not emergency

Global stocks were under pressure again Thursday amid nervousness surrounding the spread of a deadly new virus from Chin...

January 24, 2020 3 min read

Asian markets rattled as China steps up virus response

Investor nerves over the spread of a deadly new virus from China rattled Asian equities and oil benchmarks on Thursday, ...

January 23, 2020 3 min read

Stocks retreat as investors cash in on rally

Global stock markets mostly retreated on Monday as investors booked profits after last week's rally awaiting some key US...

January 22, 2020 3 min read

SARS-like virus spreads in China, reaches third Asian country

A mysterious SARS-like virus has killed a third person, spread around China and reached a third Asian country, authoriti...

January 20, 2020 4 min read
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Asian markets swing after recent gains; oil up

Most Asian markets fluctuated Monday as investors took a step back after last week's rally, though the mood remains upbe...

January 20, 2020 3 min read

Australia's farmers count cost after bushfires wipe out livestock

In the wake of ferocious bushfires that tore through Kangaroo Island, local farmer Rick Morris has endured the gruellin...

January 18, 2020 3 min read

China GDP grew 6.1-pct in 2019, slowest in three decades

China's economy weakened to its slowest pace in three decades in 2019 as weaker domestic demand and trade tensions with ...

January 17, 2020 3 min read

Dow, S&P 500 end at records as US and China sign long-awaited deal

Major Wall Street stock indices edged to fresh records on Wednesday while European and Asian markets mostly retreated as...

January 16, 2020 3 min read

A Bodaragama made Sri Lanka Excise Commissioner General

A Bodaragama, a career officer who had served 32 years in the department has been made Commissioner General of Excise, t...

January 13, 2020 1 min read

US-China trade deal a mixed success for Trump

President Donald Trump is set to sign a trade deal with China on Wednesday that he will trumpet as a major victory, but ...

January 13, 2020 4 min read

Iran's 'catastrophic mistake' in shooting down airliner

When a Boeing passenger jet crashed in Iran early on January 8, speculation immediately swirled that the only plausible...

January 12, 2020 4 min read

Australian animals face extinction threat as bushfire toll mounts

When volunteer Sarah Price found a baby kangaroo frightened but miraculously alive in the pouch of its dying mother surr...

January 10, 2020 3 min read

Oil down, stocks up as worries over US-Iran clash ebb

Global oil prices plunged Wednesday, totally reversing an earlier brief spike that followed Iranian missile attacks on U...

January 9, 2020 3 min read

Trump pulls back from war with Iran

President Donald Trump pulled back from the brink of war with Iran on Wednesday, saying that Tehran appeared to be "stan...

January 9, 2020 5 min read