Italy has taken the unprecedented step of putting the entire country under lockdown as nations around the world try to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
The U.S. State Department said on Monday that James Jeffrey, U.S. special envoy for Syria, will travel to Brussels, Belgium to attend Tuesday meetings at the NATO headquarters over Syria issues.
Japan's nuclear regulator says radiation levels around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have decreased to about a quarter of 2011 levels.
Two police officers and five Taliban militants were killed in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz during a predawn fighting on Friday, a local official confirmed.
Four members of a family including two children were killed and one was injured when the roof of their house collapsed on Friday due to the heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Punjab, police said.
