“Emergency measures must be necessary and proportionate to the crisis they seek to address,” said Rhona Smith, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. “The broadly worded …
Kurdish-led region in northeast Syria reports first case
Reuters The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast reported the area’s first case of coronavirus It said samples had been tested in Damascus earlier this month. The regional administration …
The coronavirus could kill 100,000 people in Syria’s embattled Idlib region, sped on by cramped, unhygienic camps and a lack of testing
You want us to wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week. They are living outdoors,” Fadi Mesaher told The New York Times.
Syria virus death traced to Kurdish-run northeast region
An email from the World Health Organization obtained by The Associated Press says a 53-year-old man in Syria’s Kurdish-administered northeast died earlier this month from COVID-19, the disease caused …
Malaysia urged to allow Rohingya refugee boats to land
Human Rights Watch said Saturday that the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t justify Malaysia’s turning away of overloaded boats carrying Muslim Rohingya and risking …
Singapore records 942 new coronavirus cases, taking its total past Malaysia
The island nation now has 5,992 cases, compared with 5,251 in its neighbour across the causeway I, 86 per cent of its confirmed infections are among migrant workers living in dormitories Singapore on …
COVID-19: Uzbekistan Bans Bicycles Except For ‘Essential’ Work; Serbia Donates Test Kits To Kosovo
Religious leaders in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan announced similar fatwas days earlier. Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have not officially declared any coronavirus cases. But experts are …
Waiting out a pandemic that feels like war: Insights from an Iraq War veteran
I haven’t felt like this in a long time. Seventeen years actually. The unbearable uncertainty of it all. While we all cope with the challenges and isolation associated with COVID-19, I’m thinking of …
US officials: Missile defense systems now operating in Iraq
New air defense systems are now protecting American and allied forces at military bases in Iraq where troops have been attacked by Iranian-backed insurgents in recent months, according to U.S.
South Korea maintains downward trend in virus cases
Stella Kim and Isobel van Hagen South Korea has reported 18 new cases of the virus on Saturday — its lowest daily jump since Feb. 20 — continuing a considerable downward trend since the beginning of …