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Saudi virus cases top 100 000 with new spike ahead of the hajj

Coronavirus Agency - 8 Jun 2020

On Friday, the kingdom announced a renewed lockdown in the city of Jeddah, gateway to the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, to counter the jump in cases

Covid-19 deepens the crisis in war-torn Yemen

World Haris Zargar - 8 Jun 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has left millions at the mercy of the country’s warring factions, which will not stop fighting, despite an escalating humanitarian emergency

Johnson defends under-fire virus ‘test and trace’ scheme

Coronavirus Agence France Presse - 3 Jun 2020

The scheme uses an army of 25 000 tracers to contact people who may have been exposed to the virus

US suspends flights by Chinese airlines in spat with Beijing

Coronavirus Kiri Rupiah - 3 Jun 2020

The latest spat between Washington and Beijing centers partially on the Civil Aviation Authority of China deciding to determine its limit on foreign airlines based on their activity on March 12.

Singapore slammed for ‘cruel’ Zoom death sentence

Coronavirus Agency - 20 May 2020

Zoom has become popular during virus lockdowns worldwide for everything from virtual school classes to business meetings — but Human Rights Watch criticised its use to mete out capital punishment

Macron, Merkel to present joint EU recovery initiative

Coronavirus Joseph Schmid - 18 May 2020

Europe is just beginning to emerge from the lockdowns to halt the outbreak, which has taken a huge bite out of national economies

Trump abandons ‘enemy’ media briefings — then comes right back

Article Sebastian Smith - 28 Apr 2020

In a confusing series of announcements, the White House scheduled a press conference with Trump for Monday afternoon. Then scrapped it, and then put it back on

How China broke the chain of infection

Article Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu & Du Xiaojun - 22 Apr 2020

As information about the coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organise an immense campaign against its spread

Australia to force Google, Facebook to pay for news content

Article Holly Robertson - 20 Apr 2020

Australia's new regulations will also cover the sharing of data, and the ranking and display of news content, to be enforced by binding dispute resolution mechanisms and penalties

Coronavirus dispatches from smalltown America: Part III

Article Lawrence Reichard - 10 Apr 2020

Covid-19 strikes home. People in housing for senior citizens have the disease and Native Americans’s source of income — from casinos and oil — has collapsed

Jair Bolsonaro: the president who ‘ordered his country to die’

Article Benjamin Fogel - 4 Apr 2020

The Brazilian president broke self-isolation, despite being exposed to Covid-19, and has encouraged his supporters to do the same, while his health minister battles to contain the crisis

South Africans stuck in Peru lockdown told to ‘hang in there’

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 31 Mar 2020

Two women who travelled to South America for a friend’s wedding were told by the South African government to wait until Peru’s state of emergency ends. Now they could be coming home

Far right uses coronavirus to scapegoat refugees

Article Haris Zargar - 22 Mar 2020

Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers

‘Worker safety nets inadequate’

Article Sarah Smit - 19 Mar 2020

With large-scale job losses on the horizon here and around the world, the Covid- 19 pandemic has put the vulnerability of workers in sharp focus

Indonesia seizes half-a-million masks amid coronavirus panic buying

Article Agency - 4 Mar 2020

Authorities were questioning two people after a raid at a warehouse in satellite city Tangerang, where nearly 600 000 surgical masks were found

Netanyahu claims Israel election win despite corruption charges

Article Ben Simon - 3 Mar 2020

Monday's election left the veteran right-winger in prime position to form a government and end a year of political deadlock, after similar votes in April and September proved inconclusive

Two South Africans infected on coronavirus-hit Japanese cruise ship

Article Chris Gilili & Sarah Smit - 28 Feb 2020

Government was alerted that 12 South Africans were among the crew members on board the ship only at the end of their quarantine

Weinstein convicted of sex assault, rape in ‘new era’ for #MeToo

Article Peter Hutchison - 25 Feb 2020

The 67-year-old was remanded in New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after the jury of seven men and five women found the once powerful Hollywood producer guilty of criminal sexual acts

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