Lombardy has announced that the Italian military will work to ensure that residents are complying with a quarantine to stop the spread of coronavirus. Efforts to contain the virus have been unsuccessful, officials said. Regional president Attilio Fontana told a news conference on Friday that the military had accepted his request to help enforce the lockdown, and that 114 soldiers tasked with keeping people indoors will […]
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Russia 23:05 GMT 12.03.2020(updated 23:13 GMT 12.03.2020) Get short URL According to the Russian Emergency Services, a restaurant located on the territory of the ‘Moscow Region Golf Club’ has caught fire and the blaze has spread to some 1,000 square meters surrounding the structure. There have been no reports on casualties yet. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
Worshippers went online to listen to sermons. Families stocked up on groceries. And shoppers rushed to buy up hand sanitizers and masks. For the most part, though, residents in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif region are adapting to new restrictions after the oil-producing area was sealed off from the rest of the kingdom on Sunday to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Vigilance against the infection appears high. Like […]
Saudi Arabia on Sunday imposed a temporary lockdown on its eastern Qatif province, home to a large Shi’ite Muslim population, to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the kingdom after recording four more cases that raised the total to 11, Reuters reports. The move risks stirring resentment in Qatif, which has been a flashpoint between the Sunni-dominated Saudi government and minority Shi’ites in the country who have complained […]
5 Mar, 2020 14:20 Russia will enhance military forces deployed in the Arctic to ensure its sovereignty and maintain peace and stability in the region, according to the plan of Arctic development until 2035, signed by President Putin. Source
Members of the local government in Lombardy, Italy will undergo medical screening, after tests revealed that a regional councilor tested positive for coronavirus. Italy has reported hundreds of new cases of the deadly illness. Lombardy’s regional governor, Attilio Fontana, has reportedly quarantined himself after his government councilor for economic development was found to be carrying the virus. All members of the local government will now be […]
Islamabad has voiced concern over a recent multi-billion dollar weapons deal signed between Washington and New Delhi, insisting its nuclear-armed rival is upsetting stability in southern Asia. On the heels of the $3 billion exchange inked last week – which will see India purchase 24 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters from US arms giant Lockheed Martin – Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said the move was alarming […]
In 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The current coronavirus epidemic, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, has so far infected around 80,000 people and killed more than 2,700, most of them in China. Can we expect to see this epidemic become a pandemic? Fears are now gripping the Middle East that this might well […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday condemned an Israeli decision to build 3,500 new settlement units in E1 area, stressing this would undermine security in the region, Al Watan Voice reported. According to Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the official spokesman of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, this decision comes in the context of the Israeli policies aiming to destabilise the region. Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the […]
A number of Gulf states have imposed flight restrictions as they try to deal with new cases of the coronavirus. Six new cases were confirmed in Bahrain bringing the total number of infections to eight. Two Bahraini nationals, one male and one female, and four Saudi female who was travelling back from Iran tested positive for the virus upon their arrival in Bahrain International Airport Gulf, […]
Six C-130J Super Hercules’ assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron and the 61st AS from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, have performed an Elephant Walk at Yokota AB, Japan, as part of a capstone exercise taking place in the Indo-Pacific Command’s area of responsibility, Feb. 14, 2020. “Yokota has a very unique AOR,” said Capt. John Walitsch, 61st AS C-130J pilot. “By the 61st flying […]
Egyptian intelligence chief, Abbas Kamel, yesterday kicked off a tour around the Arab North African countries, including the eastern region in Libya, led by the rebel general Khalifa Haftar, to discuss “limiting the Turkish role in the region.” Local sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Kamel’s tour was aiming at discussing “intelligence cooperation among North African government” and ways “to confront terrorism in the region.” Relations with […]
Nine people died and hundreds of buildings collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring dozens in villages and towns in both countries, Reuters reported government officials as saying. Three of those killed were children and 37 Turks were injured, including nine critically, Turkey’s health ministry said. The shallow tremor caused more than 1,000 buildings to collapse […]
Russia 02:29 GMT 13.02.2020Get short URL https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/107830/07/1078300709.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202002131078300667-eight-people-died-in-car-accident-in-russias-pskov-region–emergencies-ministry/ ST. PETERSBURG / MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Eight people died on Thursday in Russia’s Pskov Region in a major road accident, which involved a minibus and a truck, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said in a statement. “At 00:29 [21:29 GMT on Wednesday], a car accident involving a Mercedes minibus and a Volvo truck occurred […]