Singapore’s health ministry confirmed 942 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, a new daily record, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in the city-state to 5,992. The vast majority of the new ... ( read original story ...)
IDF: Security fence with Lebanon was damaged in three locations
The Israeli army on Friday identified three separate locations where damage was done to the border fence between Israel and Lebanon, but said that there had been no infiltration into Israel territory. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus in Israel: Over 13 thousand cases, 158 dead, 118 intubated
The number of coronavirus cases in Israel showed additional signs of beginning to level on Friday morning, as the Health Ministry confirmed 13,107 people have been diagnosed with the virus. So far, ... ( read original story ...)
Longtime Chicago Bulls writers share favorite Michael Jordan stories ahead of ‘The Last Dance’ documentary
Before "The Last Dance" chronicles Michael Jordan and the Bulls, four longtime NBA writers share their favorite memories of covering the GOAT. ( read original story ...)
Cambodia travel: The mighty stone temple of Angkor Wat
AT 660FT WIDE, the waterway was so big I assumed it was a river. It wasn't. This was just the 3.4-mile long moat around the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. Our genial tuk-tuk driver Mr Chantol ... ( read original story ...)
Cambodia detects no new COVID-19 cases for 6 days straight, recovery rate at 84 per cent
PHNOM PENH, April 18 -- Cambodia had found no new cases of COVID-19 infections in the last six days, while five more patients had recovered, raising the number of patients cured in the kingdom to 103, ... ( read original story ...)
Cambodia’s state of emergency law endangers human rights, warns UN expert [EN/KM]
"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 ... ( read original story ...)
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 ... ( read original story ...)
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. ( read original story ...)
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 ... ( read original story ...)