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A worker in protective gear stacks plastic buckets containing medical waste from coronavirus patients at a medical centre in Daegu, South Korea
CORONAVIRUS took aim at a broadening swath of the globe today, with officials in Europe and the Middle East scrambling to limit its spread.
In Italy, authorities set up roadblocks, called off football matches and shuttered sites including the famed La Scala opera house.
In Iran, a report of dozens of deaths in a single city emerged as infections were reported to have spread for the first time to Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain and Afghanistan.
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) cautiously welcomes the ceasefire, but remains suspicious of US and Israeli intentions
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war