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Asylum-seekers, coronavirus collide with complicated results 06 Mar 2020 - 10:07 pm
This picture taken from the Greek side of the Greece-Turkey border, shows the railway lines near Kastanies, on March 6, 2020.  AFP / Angelos Tzortzinis
Italy coronavirus deaths near 200 after biggest daily jump 06 Mar 2020 - 10:06 pm
Tourists, some of them wearing respiratory masks, visit the Coliseum in Rome on March 6, 2020.  AFP / Tiziana Fabi
Banks in London send more staff home as virus spreads 06 Mar 2020 - 06:40 pm
A woman uses a cash point machine at a HSBC bank in the City of London in a file photo. Reuters / Andrew Winning
Vatican reports first case of coronavirus inside its walls 06 Mar 2020 - 01:11 pm
 People walk on St. Peter's Square after the Vatican reports its first case of coronavirus, at the Vatican, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Germany bans export of medical protective gear over coronavirus 06 Mar 2020 - 11:33 am
A surgical mask is on a sale in a mobile phone shop in Hanau, western Germany, on March 4, 2020. / AFP / John MACDOUGALL
Moscow imposes ‘high alert regime’ to stem coronavirus outbreak 05 Mar 2020 - 10:22 pm
Chinese young women are pictured wearing mask in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia January 28, 2020. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
German church ups payouts, abuse victims say not enough 05 Mar 2020 - 07:56 pm
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx (L) and Limburg's Bishop Georg Baetzing, who was elected Marx' successor as leader of the German Bishops' Conference, address a press conference on March 3, 2020 during an episcopal gathering in Mainz, western Germany. AFP /
EU's Barnier says ‘serious’ differences in UK talks but deal possible 05 Mar 2020 - 05:51 pm
Michel Barnier, Brexit chief negotiator for Europe on future ties with Britain, gives a news conference after the first week of EU-UK negotiations, in Brussels, March 5, 2020. Reuters/Johanna Geron
Greece reports 21 new coronavirus cases in returning tour group 05 Mar 2020 - 05:51 pm
Migrants stand in line to receive food aid at Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, near Edirne in Turkey, March 5, 2020. Reuters/Murad Sezer
City of London revokes honour granted to Suu Kyi 05 Mar 2020 - 05:51 pm
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at the International Enterprise Global Conversation on November 30, 2016 in Singapore. AFP / Roslan Rahman.
Gadgets for tech giants made with coerced Uighur labor 05 Mar 2020 - 05:51 pm
A facility believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, north of Akto in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on June 4, 2019. AFP / Greg Baker
Switzerland reports first coronavirus death 05 Mar 2020 - 01:20 pm
 A map showing the distribution of coronavirus (COVID-2019) cases all around the world as of 22 February 2020 is displayed on a TV during a World Health Organization (WHO) news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019) in Geneva, Switzer
Twenty hurt after high-speed train derails in eastern France 05 Mar 2020 - 12:09 pm
Gendarmes arrive near the site where a high-speed TGV train locomotive derailed close to Inhenheim early on March 5, 2020 while travelling from the eastern city of Strasbourg to Paris./ AFP / Patrick HERTZOG
UK airline Flybe collapses as virus hits flights worldwide 05 Mar 2020 - 09:11 am
In this file photo taken on November 08, 2017 Passengers dissembark from a flybe aircraft after landing at Jersey Airport in St Peter, north of St Helier, on the British island of Jersey. / AFP / Oli SCARFF
Italian police uncover online coronavirus fraud 04 Mar 2020 - 09:51 pm
An Italian police car is seen near a mainly deserted Piazza della Scala on February 29, 2020 in center Milan, northern Italy.  AFP / Miguel Medina
'Unpaid and unseen': Female workers bolster Britain's economy 04 Mar 2020 - 09:51 pm
People carry bags reading ‘Equal Pay Day’ during a protest a day before International Women’s Day, in Bern March 7, 2015. Reuters / Ruben Sprich
Ukraine president jettisons PM in search for 'new brains' to revive economy 04 Mar 2020 - 09:37 pm
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk attends a meeting at Presidential Administration headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine September 2, 2019. Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko
Italian coronavirus death toll jumps to 107, all schools shut 04 Mar 2020 - 09:37 pm
An empty canal is seen after the spread of coronavirus has caused a decline in the number of tourists in Venice, Italy, March 1, 2020. Reuters/Manuel Silvestri