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India’s festival of Holi, which marks the advent of spring, was reportedly toned down this year over fears of the coronavirus that has been rattling the world economy. The festival is widely celebrated in India,

Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans will no longer be allowed to travel into El Salvador without a passport as fears over the fast-spreading coronavirus continue to grow. On Tuesday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said via Twitter

A Canadian man is set to appeal a new court ruling that revokes his vanity license plate that bears his last name: Grabher. Lorne Grabher, of Nova Scotia, claims he has been

Oops! The Dutch prime minister had a momentary lapse in concentration Monday night when he called on citizens of the Netherlands to stop shaking hands to prevent spreading the new coronavirus — only to

The one-two punch of coronavirus and an escalating oil price war that is roiling world markets is hurting one country more than any other: Iran. Already dealing with a deadly outbreak, the Islamic

President Xi Jinping visited China’s virus epicenter Tuesday for the first time since cases of a then-unidentified respiratory illness emerged in the city of Wuhan in December. The visit came as people

Islamists in Pakistan’s capital Sunday hurled stones, shoes, and other objects at people participating in International Women’s Day marches. The event, joined by both men and women in Islamabad, was one of dozens

The battle to halt the coronavirus brought new restrictions Monday, with Israel ordering all visitors quarantined just weeks before Passover and Easter. CORONAVIRUS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW Israel ordered two weeks

Italy’s prime minister announced Monday evening that he was expanding restrictions on travel to cover the entire country in an unprecedented peacetime move to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. Giuseppe Conte

As the global economy battles shaky terrain, triggered by the multiplying threat of coronavirus (officially known as COVID-19) that has left the oil industry in oversupply, Saudi Arabia and Russia have gone head-to-head in what analysts