Feb 18 Watch 5:15 News Wrap: New cases of novel coronavirus in China slow In our news wrap Tuesday, China’s outbreak of novel coronavirus may be slowing, with new cases falling below 2,000 for two days in a row. The country is enforcing mass quarantines and increased surveillance. Also, Afghan election officials announced that… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch 5:49 Assad’s Idlib offensive drives nearly 1 million from their homes — and into the cold By Nick Schifrin In Syria, only one pocket of resistance to the Assad regime remains, in Idlib province. But since late last year, Assad’s military has been relentlessly attacking the region, and now, nearly a million people have been forced from their homes… Continue watching
Feb 18 Macron to limit teacher exchanges to control how Islam is taught in France By Sylvie Corbet, Jean-Francois Badias, Associated Press Macron said Tuesday that the government wants to combat "foreign interference" in how Islam is practiced and organized in secular France. Continue reading
Feb 18 Russia to ban entry of Chinese nationals to halt coronavirus By Associated Press The virus has killed 1,868 patients in mainland China and five elsewhere, including one in France. Continue reading
Feb 18 Trudeau urges patience, warns against using force against pipeline protestors By Rob Gillies, Associated Press Demonstrators have set up blockades in British Columbia and Ontario in solidarity with opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline project that crosses the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation in northwestern British Columbia. Continue reading
Feb 18 India builds wall along slum ahead of Trump visit By Associated Press Senior government official Bijal Patel said the wall was built “for security reasons” and not to conceal the slum. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 4:17 News Wrap: Syria’s Assad vows to continue retaking territory, despite Turkish opposition In our news wrap Monday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is congratulating his forces for major gains in the country’s last rebel strongholds. The Russian-backed blitz has recaptured Aleppo and much of Idlib province -- and driven nearly 900,000 people to… Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch 10:00 How U.S. health officials are responding to the threat of novel coronavirus With the novel coronavirus crisis gripping parts of Asia, thousands of passengers have been quarantined aboard cruise ships. Among them were several hundred Americans, who are now being evacuated back to the U.S., where they will undergo another quarantine in… Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch 9:37 In these parts of Greece, crisis is building between residents and migrants By Malcolm Brabant Amid growing unrest in Greece, the government there is temporarily halting construction of permanent detention centers for asylum seekers. Tens of thousands of migrants have been stranded in the country for more than four years, since its border with Macedonia… Continue watching
Feb 17 Apple warns coronavirus outbreak will cut iPhone production, sales By Associated Press The Cupertino, California-based company says all of its iPhone manufacturing facilities in China have reopened, but production is ramping up slowly. Continue reading