France closes down most shops, restaurants and entertainment centres and asks people to stay home as much as possible.
Move will push vulnerable Venezuelans to use informal border crossings, making coronavirus fight harder, experts say.
The pandemic has forced many countries to close their schools to help slow the outbreak.
White House officials also take unprecedented step of checking temperatures of journalists entering the briefing room.
More than half a million children displaced by the latest fighting are living in desperate conditions.
The group will be quarantined for 21 days, officials say, as a safety measure, at a hotel in the Limpopo province.
Some patients in Wuhan are slowly returning to their normal lives, while it could be months before the rest of the world can do the same.
PM Shinzo Abe says he had no immediate intention to declare a state of emergency over the virus outbreak.
Camp Taji hit for the second time this week, days after a similar attack killed two US troops and a British soldier.
Release stalled over disagreements on number of detainees to be freed and guarantees they will not return to fighting.
One confirmed case was treated and has left hospital, but Jordan is worried as virus spreads in neighbouring countries.
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During these times of uncertainty, digital tools are proving to be more vital than ever.
A Canadian woman and her Italian partner have been released to the UN in Mali, and they appear to be in good health.
For survivors of the mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand, the many paths to recovery are still long and winding.
The virus's rapid spread in the North African country is threatening the momentum of the year-long demonstrations.
Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding explains why he ranks collective global efforts to stop coronavirus as B-minus, C-plus.
A year after the Christchurch mass shooting we discuss the root causes of the growth in white nationalist attacks.
Mauritius and Rodrigues Island brace for damaging winds and torrential rains.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the Afghan conflict and Pakistan's political and economic relationships with its neighbours.
