Turkey ordered citizens to stay at home for 48 hours across 31 cities starting midnight Friday to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, immediately triggering panic-buying in some cities. The interior ministry said in a statement the order would last until midnight (2100 GMT) on...

Yemen, which Friday announced its first coronavirus case, is wracked by a war which has killed tens of thousands and caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations. The war between Huthi rebels and pro-government troops escalated in March 2015, when a...

France on Friday reported 987 more COVID-19 deaths registered in hospitals and nursing homes over the last 24 hours, although the number of patients in intensive care fell for the second day in a row. The new deaths – including 554 in hospitals and 433 in nursing homes – brought the...

Turkey’s confirmed cases of coronavirus increased by 4,747 and 98 people died in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll from the disease to 1,006, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Friday. The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,423, with 281 recoveries in the last 24...