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SAN FRANCISCO, February 04, (THEWILL) -Guinea’s president has announced that parliamentary elections initially due in late 2018 would once again be postponed, as the country grapples with long-running opposition protests. President Alpha Conde said parliamentary elections would be pushed back...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 31, (THEWILL) - British health officials said Friday two people had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, in the country's first cases since the deadly outbreak emerged in China and spread globally this month. The announcement came as...

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 28, (THEWILL) – Germany’s first confirmed coronavirus patient caught the disease from a Chinese colleague who visited Germany last week, officials said on Tuesday, in the first human-to-human transmission on European soil, according to an AFP...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 27, (THEWILL) - US health authorities said Sunday there are now five confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States and more are expected. Nancy Messonnier, head of the respiratory disease section at the Centers for...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 27, (THEWILL) – A Caspian Airlines plane skid off the runway onto a highway on landing at an airport in southwestern Iran on Monday but all passengers were evacuated without injury, Iranian state media reported. “It ran out...

BEVERLY HILLS, January 27, (THEWILL) - Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq’s capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands of protesters kept up anti-government rallies across the...

Health officials are dealing with a suspected case of coronavirus in Ivory Coast, the country's health ministry has announced. An unnamed student, who returned to the West African country from Beijing on Saturday, is undergoing further tests after showing flu-like...

Twenty members of the security forces have been killed in Mali by suspected Islamist militants, officials say. The attack came early on Sunday at the Sokolo military camp in the central Segou region. An official speaking to AFP news agency said...

The second case of coronavirus in the US has been confirmed in Chicago — as health officials continue to examine 63 patients in 22 states, according to reports. The latest confirmed case involves a 60-year-old woman who returned from Wuhan,...