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Coronavirus Hits Algeria As Man Tests Positive

BEVERLY HILLS, February 26, (THEWILL) - Algerian authorities have announced that an Italian citizen who arrived in the country on February 17 tested positive to the coronavirus disease. This is one week after Africa got a clean bill of health on...

Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Dies At 91

BEVERLY HILLS, February 25, (THEWILL) - Egypt’s former long-time president Hosni Mubarak died Tuesday at age 91 at Cairo’s Galaa military hospital, his family and state TV said. His son Alaa Mubarak tweeted that “this morning my father, president Mubarak, passed...

Turkey Confirms Eight Dead After Iran Border Earthquake

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BEVERLY HILLS, February 23 (THEWILL) – Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Sunday eight people were killed in eastern Turkey after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit neighbouring Iran, the official Anadolu news agency reported. He said three of the dead...

Chinese Doctor Who Issued Early Warning On Coronavirus Dies

BEVERLY HILLS, February 07, (THEWILL) - A doctor who became a hero in China after sounding the alarm early on about a new coronavirus outbreak has died of the disease, the Wuhan hospital where he was being treated, said on...

Airbus Closes China Plant Over Coronavirus

BEVERLY HILLS, February 05, (THEWILL) - The Tianjin facility, the first of its kind for Airbus outside Europe, is a completion centre for single-aisle A320 aircraft and can also handle the larger A330. Tianjin is a port city 150 kilometres (93...

S/African Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-President Zuma

SAN FRANCISCO, February 04, (THEWILL) - A South African court issued an arrest warrant for former President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, after he skipped court on grounds of needing medical treatment, but the judge stayed the warrant until his corruption...

Guinea Postpones Elections Again, As Protests Continue

SAN FRANCISCO, February 04, (THEWILL) -Guinea’s president has announced that parliamentary elections initially due in late 2018 would once again be postponed, as the country grapples with long-running opposition protests. President Alpha Conde said parliamentary elections would be pushed back...

Officials Confirm First Cases Of Novel Coronavirus In UK

SAN FRANCISCO, January 31, (THEWILL) - British health officials said Friday two people had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, in the country's first cases since the deadly outbreak emerged in China and spread globally this month. The announcement came as...

UN Agency Declares Global Emergency Over Virus From China

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a...

Germany Confirms First Case of Coronavirus Human-To-Human Transmission

BEVERLY HILLS, January 28, (THEWILL) – Germany’s first confirmed coronavirus patient caught the disease from a Chinese colleague who visited Germany last week, officials said on Tuesday, in the first human-to-human transmission on European soil, according to an AFP...