United Kingdom and Russia are latest countries to confirm cases, as number of people infected in China nears 10,000.
A total of 160 representatives will be returned to the 33rd Dáil, which will sit on 20 February.
North Korea claims it has no cases of coronavirus, but skeptics point out its poor record of keeping out epidemics from China. The country is ill-equipped to identify diseases, much less contain them.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday.
The United States has begun sending Brazilian migrants crossing the border from Mexico back there to await their U.S. court hearings, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Wednesday.
A German school to train police officers suspended three first-year students after they were allegedly heard yelling "Sieg Heil" from an apartment window. The cadets are now being investigated by the criminal police.
A 10-year-old Russian boy will not join the list of youngest fathers in the world as the real father of a schoolgirl's baby has been revealed.
Hundreds of people began disembarking a quarantined cruise ship off Japan on Wednesday as the death toll from the new coronavirus in mainland China passed 2,000 and the number of new cases in the country fell for a second straight day.
Deaths in China from the virus have risen above 2,000 after a 40% spike in fatalities in Hubei province – but new cases in the province are down. Follow all the latest news here
The judge is to hear from an array of Facebook executives during the course of proceedings.
In all, Trump took clemency actions related to 11 people, his latest interventions in the justice system as he faces growing criticism for weighing in on the cases of former aides.
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Australian soldiers are being warned they will be immediately suspended from active duty, and possibly kicked out of the Army, if caught making white supremacist hand gestures.
The man said his cruise was docked and a passenger tested positive for COVID-19. He left the secure watch of his hotel to return to the PNW.
As the virus keeps children at home, Chinese parents and schools are turning to online education, putting pressure on industry players to deliver.
Passengers on the virus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo began disembarking on Wednesday after a controversial two-week quarantine that saw more than 500 people infected with the new coronavirus originating in China.
Ahead of debate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg plays advance defense on criminal justice & money as Massachusetts Sen. Elizzabeth Warren attacks.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele deployed hundreds of soldiers on Tuesday to fight gangs, days after facing criticism for barging into Congress with the army to pressure lawmakers over his security plan.
U.S. President Donald Trump came under fire on Tuesday for commuting the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the ex-Illinois governor convicted of trying to peddle Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat.