February 2020 - Articlemild

Washington state declares emergency after first patient dies from coronavirus in US

Washington state officials confirm the first coronavirus death in the U.S. Here’s the latest on the COVID-19 outbreak.

A Washington woman has died from coronavirus: What we know about the first death in the US

The first person in the U.S. to die after contracting the new coronavirus died overnight in Washington State, health officials said Saturday.

Vets remove entire beach towel from Monty the python

The Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH) in Sydney, Australia helped to solve what they called the case of “The Missing Beach Towel” this week when they pulled an entire multi-colored, fruit-themed beach towel from the belly of a family’s pet python.

Coronavirus fears empty store shelves of toilet paper, bottled water, masks as shoppers stock up

With concerns of the coronavirus growing into a pandemic and shoppers stocking up, experts say consumers will find more empty shelves by mid-April.

Greece pushes back migrants on Turkish border 'onslaught'

Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of migrants gathered on its border with Turkey on Saturday, as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union’s doorstep. Greece, which has tense relations with its neighbor Turkey at the best of times and was a primary gateway for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016, described the situation an “onslaught” and said it would keep migrants out. “Greece yesterday faced an organized, mass and illegal attempt to violate its borders and it withstood this attempt,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters.

Turkish strike in Syria kills nine Hezbollah members, wounds 30: source

Turkish strikes on northwest Syria late on Friday killed nine members of Iran-backed Hezbollah and wounded 30 others, a commander in the regional alliance backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said.

South Korea virus cases surge as WHO sounds maximum alert

South Korea reported its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases on Saturday as concerns grew of a possible epidemic in the United States and the World Health Organization raised its risk alert to its highest level. The virus has rapidly spread across the world in the past week, causing stock markets to sink to their lowest levels since the 2008 global financial crisis over fears that the disease could wreak havoc on the world economy. The vast majority of infections have been in China but more daily cases are now logged outside the country, with South Korea, Italy and Iran emerging as major hotspots.