投稿者: Emma Graham-Harrison
Spain to let some non-essential staff return to work, but Italians shut in until at least 3 MayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US has become the first country to record more than 2,000 deaths from coronavirus in a single…
Isis gunmen held hostages for hours while Afghan special forces tried to end siegeGunmen and suicide bombers have killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and children, and injured many others in an early morning attack on a Sikh Gurdwara in the…
Cancelled flights, airport shutdowns and soaring ticket prices all preventing people returning homeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAustralians stranded around the world by cancelled flights, airport shutdowns or soaring tick…
New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leaveChina will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country – and …
Incumbent gained just over 50% of September votes but Abdullah’s team reject resultsFive months after Afghans went to the polls to choose a new president, election authorities have declared the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, the winner, but his main opponent…
Passengers on Diamond Princess liner ‘disillusioned’ with government over lack of action• All the day’s developmentsPressure is growing on the British government to airlift citizens stranded on a cruise ship stricken by coronavirus, after a Chinese tou…
Even after declaring a crisis, government seemed focused on managing its image as well as the outbreakChina’s two new hospitals built in as many weeks were the official face of its fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan. As the city was locked down, au…
With businesses around the world suffering, Beijing tightens controlsIncreasingly desperate officials in the quarantined epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak have tightened controls on an already frightened population, likening the growing crisis to “…
Li Wenliang was at the forefront of warning about the disease and treating sufferers before the virus took his life in WuhanFor most of his life, Li Wenliang was a successful but anonymous ophthalmologist, father and husband, based in the central Chine…
Li Wenliang targeted by police after warning about outbreak on social media in DecemberCoronavirus – latest developmentsA whistleblowing Chinese doctor, who was among the first to raise concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, has die…
British government became first in world to advise all citizens in China to leave the countryCoronavirus – latest developmentsChina’s ambassador to the UK has condemned the British authorities for sowing panic over the coronavirus with its advice for a…
Australia and other countries follow US in imposing near-total travel ban as foreign companies scale back activityThe growing coronavirus epidemic is isolating China, as other countries, trying to ward off infection or contain their own smaller outbrea…
The Chinese authorities have released details of some of the victims, and not all are elderly with pre-existing health conditionsMost people who died from the new coronavirus appear to have been old, and many had pre-existing health problems, but Chine…
Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus festerCoronavirus outbreak – latest updatesWhen Wuhan’s mayor took to live national television to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came pri…
Bibi, freed last year and now in Canada, will release her autobiography on WednesdayAsia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, has released two photographs taken in exile, as she prepares for the launch…