Politics
Beijing cancels flights, shuts schools over new virus outbreak
Beijing’s airports cancelled two-thirds of all flights on Wednesday and schools in the Chinese capital were closed again as authorities rushed to ...South Sudan takes key step forward in peace agreement
South Sudan’s main rivals on Wednesday sealed a deal on control of the country’s 10 internal states, an issue seen as the ...Australia accuses China and Russia of virus disinformation
China and Russia were using the heightened anxiety around the coronavirus pandemic to undermine Western democracies by spreading disinformation online, Australia’s foreign ...Taiwan to ease virus border controls to let in some business people
Taiwan will from the start of next week ease border controls put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and ...Flights canceled as Beijing’s new outbreak raises concerns
More than 60% of commercial flights in and out of Beijing have been canceled as the Chinese capital raised its alert level ...India says 20 troops killed in deadliest clash with China in decades
At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a “violent face-off” with Chinese forces along the disputed Himalayan frontier, the Indian army ...Life-saving coronavirus drug has been found
Giving low doses of the generic steroid drug dexamethasone to patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 reduced death rates by around a ...North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office near border with South
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border on Tuesday, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric ...Europe reopens borders but China battles new virus outbreak
A raft of EU nations reopened their borders to fellow Europeans on Monday after months of coronavirus curbs, but China locked down ...Virus more efficient at infection after mutation; diseased lungs more receptive to virus
The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments ...