March 18, 2020 US to suspend refugee admissions for 3 weeks due to coronavirus The U.S. State Department suspended the arrival of all refugees to the United States for three weeks on Wednesday, in light of the growing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.Â
March 17, 2020 Trump administration hits back after China kicks out US journalists amid coronavirus pandemic China on Tuesday escalated its tit-for-tat propaganda war with the United States over who's to blame for the spread of the coronavirus by placing restrictive measures on several top media companies including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, prompting strong opposition from the Trump administration.
March 17, 2020 New ISIS leader to be labeled 'specially designated global terrorist' by US The new leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) group has been declared a “specially designated global terrorist," according to the State Department.
March 17, 2020 Trump defends use of phrase 'China virus,' despite demands from China to stop President Trump on Tuesday further angered China by referring to COVID-19, which has killed north of 7,000 people worldwide, as the "China virus" despite being asked repeatedly to stop.Â
March 17, 2020 North Korea claims it has conquered coronavirus – but does anyone believe them? North Korea has triumphantly declared that it has zero cases of COVID-19, a virus that's turned into a global pandemic and put entire nations on lockdown to slow its speed. However, the problem with Kim Jong Un's chest-thumping proclamations are that no one believes him.
March 17, 2020 Kataeb Hezbollah, the shadowy Iranian-backed militia behind attacks on US troops in Iraq While the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravish and consume the globe, U.S. troops stationed in Iraq continue to battle the threat of Iran-backed militias, in recent days going head-to-head with what is considered one of the most shadowy and lethal units: Kataeb Hezbollah, often called KH.
March 16, 2020 Displaced Syrian family lives in a graveyard as the war enters its 10th year The number of dead continues to pile up in a country that was once one of the most beautiful on earth. The fear of death is never far from the mind of survivors. And some are even forced to live among those who have departed – with nowhere left to go as the last opposition-bastion of Syria’s Idlib is laid to waste.
March 13, 2020 'The Five' rips Chinese official pushing 'bogus' theory the US Army 'brought' coronavirus to China The panel on "The Five" responded Friday to a Chinese government official who took to Twitter to question whether the U.S. Army "brought the epidemic [of the coronavirus] to Wuhan."
March 10, 2020 $300 million of ExxonMobil oil revenue hangs in the balance after contentious election in Guyana remains undecided Prosperity hovered on the horizon of Guyana, a small South American country, after ExxonMobil discovered eight billion barrels of oil off its coast late last year, but a contentious election has left the expected $300 million in revenue without a sworn-in president to control it more than a week after voters cast their ballots.
March 10, 2020 Conservative lawmakers, commentators labeled 'racist' for calling COVID-19 'Chinese' or 'Wuhan' virus Chinese officials are pushing back on the expression "Wuhan coronavirus" - saying the name used frequently by American conservative leaders and commentators to describe the place COVID-19 originated unfairly stigmatizes the Asian nation and borders on being racist.