Some companies have warned that a coronavirus outbreak in China could disrupt supply chains or hurt bottom lines as factories and shops shut and airlines suspend flights. FINANCIAL IMPACT: * Electrolux said the epidemic could have a material impact if its Chinese suppliers were...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 259, the National Health Commission said Saturday. A total of 11,791 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) have been reported in China. It was reported that 46 people have died in the...

Waad al-Kateab, the director of Oscar-nominated Syrian film "For Sama," demonstrated outside the United Nations headquarters on Thursday to denounce the bombings of hospitals in her war-torn country. "Shame, UN, shame," "Shame, (UN Secretary-General Antonio) Guterres, shame," chanted the...

Thirty-six people have been killed in a suspected militia attack in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in violence since November, a local official said Wednesday. Congolese troops have been carrying out a military operation on an armed group in the east of the...