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Travel bans grow amid warnings viral pandemic will worsen

ROME - Sweeping travel bans accelerated around the globe Thursday, walling regions apart, keeping people inside their homes and slowing the engines of commerce to try to stem the unfolding coronavirus...

Mar 12, 2020

Virus lockdown means Italy's old are isolated from relatives

ROME - Natalina De Santis' three adult children come to her front door, bringing food to keep her healthy and books to relieve her boredom, but she doesn't let them in any more. Widowed a few months a...

Mar 12, 2020

Iran to call dead medical staff 'martrys' as virus kills 291

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will recognize doctors and nurses who die combating the new coronavirus as "martyrs" like slain soldiers, the country's supreme leader announced Tuesday as the outbreak killed 54 m...

Mar 12, 2020

German intel puts part of far-right party under surveillance

BERLIN - Germany's domestic intelligence agency says it is formally placing parts of the far-right Alternative for Germany party under surveillance after classifying it as extremist. Thomas Haldenwang...

Mar 12, 2020

The new mask: Wave of global revolt replaced by virus fear

BEIRUT - As 2019 gave way to 2020 in a cloud of tear gas, and in some cases a hail of bullets, from Hong Kong to Baghdad, from Beirut to Barcelona and Santiago, it seemed civil disobedience and govern...

Mar 12, 2020

Most coronavirus patients recover, still anxiety, fear loom

SEATTLE - Amid all the fears, quarantines and stockpiling of food, it has been easy to ignore the fact that more than 60,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus spreading around the globe. The ...

Mar 11, 2020

On virus response, Trump pitches tax relief to wary Congress

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's proposed payroll tax break met with bipartisan resistance Tuesday on Capitol Hill as pressure mounts on the administration and Congress to work more vigorously to...

Mar 11, 2020

Biden wins hard-fought Michigan, deals major blow to Sanders

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden decisively won Michigan's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy four years ago. The...

Mar 11, 2020

NBA suspends season until further notice, over coronavirus

MIAMI - The NBA has suspended its season "until further notice" after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the league's o...

Mar 11, 2020

Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus

NEW YORK - Tom Hanks and his actress-singer wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the coronavirus, the actor said in a statement Wednesday. Hanks said the couple were in Australia and felt tired, ...

Mar 11, 2020