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Ireland cancels St Patrick's Day parades over coronavirus 09 Mar 2020 - 09:14 pm
Participants on sheep are seen during the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, Ireland, March 17, 2017. Reuters / Clodagh Kilcoyne
Palestine confirms 5 more coronavirus cases 09 Mar 2020 - 09:14 pm
Palestinian staff stand at the emergency entrance of Beit Jala Hospital on March 9, 2020, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem which is under lockdown due to the novel coronavirus epidemic. AFP / Musa Al Shaer
North Korea fires three projectiles into sea; US, China urge return to talks 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
North Korean flag flutters on top of the 160-metre tall tower at North Korea's propaganda village of Gijungdong, in this picture taken from Tae Sung freedom village near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), inside the demilitarised zone separating the two
Family honours dream of son lost in Ethiopia plane crash 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
Joshua Babu and his wife Emily Chelangat, who lost their son and daughter-in-law to the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, sit with their family members during a Reuters interview at their home in Nairobi, Kenya March 7, 2020. Reuters/Njeri Mwangi
Royal farewell: UK's Harry and Meghan bow out from official roles 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, March 9, 2020. Phil Harris /Pool via Reuters
Why have two Afghans appointed themselves president? 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
Afghan health workers in protective gears wait to check people during Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani inauguration as president, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan March 9, 2020. Reuters/Mohammad Ismail
Thousands prepare to get off ship hit by virus in California 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
The Grand Princess cruise ship carrying passengers who have tested positive for coronavirus is seen in the Pacific Ocean outside San Francisco, California, US, March 7, 2020. Reuters/Stephen Lam
Egypt steps up coronavirus checks after outbreak in Luxor 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
A tourist wearing a protective face mask checks her phone while on a visit to Luxor Temple in Egypt's southern city of Luxor on March 9, 2020. AFP
Germany says coronavirus cases top 1,000 09 Mar 2020 - 12:52 pm
German Health Minister Jens Spahn and Berlin's Health Senator Dilek Kalayci prepare for a meeting with the federal Health Minsters in Berlin on March 4, 2020, to discuss measures in connection with the novel coronavirus. / AFP / Tobias SCHWARZ
China reports zero locally transmitted coronavirus cases outside Hubei 09 Mar 2020 - 12:36 pm
A staff member sprays disinfectant after the final patients were discharged at a temporary hospital set up to treat people with the COVID-19 coronavirus in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on March 8, 2020.  / AFP / STR AND STR
NASA Ames tells employees to work from home after one tests positive for coronavirus 09 Mar 2020 - 12:04 pm
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India denies entry to cruise ships on virus fears 09 Mar 2020 - 10:26 am
Team member of Ragesh Shah, a scientist and founder of Online Telemedicine Research Institute, puts a sticker on a kit prepared for the coronavirus scanning and surveillance system, in Ahmedabad on March 6, 2020. AFP / SAM PANTHAKY
Twitter labels edited clip of Biden retweeted by Trump as manipulated media 09 Mar 2020 - 10:07 am
US President Donald Trump speaks during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 6, 2020. / AFP / JIM WATSON
Shanghai Disneyland resumes some resort ops as coronavirus infections slow 09 Mar 2020 - 09:43 am
 FILE PHOTO: People visit the opening event of Disney-Pixar Toy Story Land, the seventh themed land in Shanghai Disneyland in Shanghai, China April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
Singapore allows cruise ship turned away by Malaysia, Thailand over virus fears 09 Mar 2020 - 09:04 am
Birds fly passed the Grand Princess cruise ship, operated by Princess Cruises, as it maintains a holding pattern about 25 miles off the coast of San Francisco, California on March 8, 2020. / AFP / Josh Edelson
3-year-old tests positive for COVID-19 in Kerala 09 Mar 2020 - 08:59 am
A boy wearing a protective mask walks in a street following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in New Delhi, India, March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
As Myanmar farmers lose their land, sand mining for Singapore is blamed 08 Mar 2020 - 11:06 pm
The Star Optimus, a hopper dredger vessel that belongs to Starhigh Asia Pacific, sits docked on the Salween river in Mawlamyine, Mon state, Myanmar September 18, 2019. 2019. Reuters/Ann Wang
Suburbanites are voting and that's good news for Joe Biden 08 Mar 2020 - 09:20 pm
Democratic US presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden greets supporters at Pearls Southern Cooking in Jackson, Mississippi, March 8, 2020. Reuters/Brendan McDermid