CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PROF. KHALID MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

World

Trump hopes travel ties to China and Europe can be restored very quickly 12 Mar 2020 - 06:23 pm
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the news media during a meeting with bankers on COVID-19 coronavirus response, inside the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Italy businesses blame Austria for border traffic jams 12 Mar 2020 - 05:21 pm
Policemen control a car at the border crossing Brenner in Austria, on March 11, 2020. AFP /  Johann GRODER
Italian businesses count heavy cost of coronavirus lockdown 12 Mar 2020 - 04:35 pm
A worker sanitises the Doges Palace on St. Mark's square as a measure to fight against the coronavirus contagion in Venice, Italy, March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri
As new cases of coronavirus subside in China, Wuhan told to go back to work 12 Mar 2020 - 01:49 pm
TOPSHOT - Medical staff celebrate after all patients were discharged at a temporary hospital set up to treat people with the COVID-19 coronavirus in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 9, 2020. / AFP / STR
Spain's PM to hold meetings via video conference after minister diagnosed with coronavirus 12 Mar 2020 - 01:34 pm
A
South Africa reports first case of local transmission of coronavirus 12 Mar 2020 - 12:34 pm
Tshepo Mabasa, 33, walks among cars selling hand sanitizers for 20 rand (1,10 euros) in Johannesburg, on March 11, 2020, amid the outbreak of COVID-19, the new coronavirus. South Africa has registered 13 cases of the new coronavirus. / AFP / Guillem Sarto
China shuts down Everest over coronavirus 12 Mar 2020 - 11:52 am
file photo
"Better than nothing": Thailand encourages cloth masks amid surgical mask shortage 12 Mar 2020 - 10:27 am
SOACHA, COLOMBIA - MARCH 11: Students are seen with their handmade face masks at the Julio Cesar Turbay school located at the urban area of ??the municipality of Soacha, a sector stigmatized by violence and lack of resources in Soacha, Colombia on March 1
Trump suspends travel from Europe to the United States to fight coronavirus, UK exempted 12 Mar 2020 - 09:40 am
US President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening novel coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis in Washington, DC on March 11, 2020. / AFP / POOL / Doug Mills
Staffer in U.S. senator's office tests positive for coronavirus 12 Mar 2020 - 09:08 am
FILE PHOTO: Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) arrives as the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump continues in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Philippine leader to undergo 'precautionary' virus test 12 Mar 2020 - 08:59 am
Commuters wear protective face masks as they queue to get into a train amid new cases of coronavirus in Manila, Philippines, March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Malaysia tracking 5,000 people possibly exposed to coronavirus at religious event 11 Mar 2020 - 11:49 pm
Malaysia's Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (L) launched the COVID-19 relief fund after the first official Cabinet Meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya, Malaysia on March 11, 2020. (Syaiful Redzuan / Anadolu Agency)
WHO declares coronavirus a pandemic, urges aggressive action 11 Mar 2020 - 08:16 pm
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. AFP / Fabrice Coffrini
Kuwait to halt commercial passenger flights, declare public holiday 11 Mar 2020 - 07:17 pm
Peninsula
Argentina, Colombia announce isolation of travelers from virus-hit countries 11 Mar 2020 - 04:53 pm
A passenger wearing a protective mask checks a flights timetable at Milan's Linate airport on March 11, 2020, a day after Italy imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people Tuesday to control the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus. / AFP
Roma not travelling to Sevilla for Europa League game 11 Mar 2020 - 04:48 pm
A woman wears a protective face mask at Roma Termini railway station, after the Italian government imposed a virtual lockdown on the north of the country, in Rome, Italy, March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Wuhan told to go back to work as new cases of coronavirus subside in China 11 Mar 2020 - 03:07 pm
A man wearing a protective facemask walks along a street in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province on March 11, 2020. AFP / NOEL CELIS
Italy's lockdown reshapes family life in time of coronavirus 11 Mar 2020 - 02:33 pm
A person rides a bicycle past Milan Cathedral on the second day of an unprecedented lockdown across all of the country, imposed to slow the outbreak of coronavirus, in Milan, Italy March 11, 2020. Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo