Spanish troops brought in to help tackle the spread of the coronavirus outbreak have discovered elderly people “dead and abandoned” at their retirement homes, according to the country’s defence minister. Some elderly residents were “completely left to fend for themselves, or even dead, in their beds”, Margarita Robles told Spanish TV channel Telecinco when discussing […]

The African saxophone legend Manu Dibango has died in Paris after catching coronavirus. Dibango – best known for his 1972 hit Soul Makossa – is one of the first global stars to die from Covid-19. The 86-year-old fused jazz and funk music with traditional sounds from his home country, Cameroon. He collaborated with numerous artists […]

As the world continues to change amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, one thing that’s helped many people pass the time has been catching up movies and TV with Netflix. Unfortunately, as people’s self-quarantine makes its way into the month of April, there are many titles on the popular streaming service that will be going away to make room for some exciting new […]

Car firms are answering calls from governments to help make more ventilators and face masks to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, Fiat began converting one of its car plants in China to start making about one million masks a month. The carmaker wants to start production in the coming weeks, wrote its […]

President El-Sisi emphasised that he has confidence that the Egyptian people will respond to these measures in a manner that preserves the country’s security and safety   Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has instructed the government to take additional precautionary measure to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The president said in a […]

The International Olympic Committee and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have concluded the Tokyo 2020 Olympics must be postponed, and held no later than the summer of 2021, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Tuesday. After a call with IOC president Thomas Bach, Abe said the July 24-Aug. 9 event would be rescheduled […]

The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) announced on Tuesday that it is extending the suspension of all football activities in Egypt for 15 more days. “In accordance on the decisions issued by the Egyptian prime minister imposing a curfew in the country for two weeks starting 25 March, the EFA has decided to extend the suspension […]

Egypt will extend the suspension of air traffic for an additional two weeks, Minister of Information Osama Heikal said on Tuesday. Egypt suspended international flights to and from the country at all airports nationwide on 19 March. Only exceptional flights to bring nationals back home have been operated. Egypt has so far registered 366 coronavirus […]

Egypt is imposing a partial curfew from 7 pm to 6 am for two weeks as of Wednesday morning as part of stricter measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Tuesday. During the curfew hours, all mass public and private transport will be suspended, Madbouly said. Violators will […]

  A police officer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia points at a police drone used to remind residents to stay at home during the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday. More American states have gone under lockdown, with Louisiana, New Mexico, Washington and West Virginia issuing stay-at-home orders. “Right now, every time you leave your house, you are […]