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Lebanon records first novel coronavirus death: health ministry 10 Mar 2020 - 01:32 pm
Sanitary workers disinfect the entrance of the Lebanese Parliament in central Beirut on March 10, 2020, amid the spread of coronavirus in the country. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO
Blockaded Gaza free of coronavirus, but stepping up precautions 09 Mar 2020 - 11:44 pm
A Palestinian worker wearing a mask sanitizes the hands of a customer amid coronavirus precautions, in a supermarket in Gaza City March 8, 2020. Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Palestine confirms 5 more coronavirus cases 09 Mar 2020 - 09:14 pm
Palestinian staff stand at the emergency entrance of Beit Jala Hospital on March 9, 2020, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem which is under lockdown due to the novel coronavirus epidemic. AFP / Musa Al Shaer
Egypt steps up coronavirus checks after outbreak in Luxor 09 Mar 2020 - 06:34 pm
A tourist wearing a protective face mask checks her phone while on a visit to Luxor Temple in Egypt's southern city of Luxor on March 9, 2020. AFP
Erdogan says will go to Belgium Monday for talks with EU 08 Mar 2020 - 04:51 pm
FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS
Coronavirus deaths rise to 145 in Iran, infections near 6,000 07 Mar 2020 - 06:19 pm
Fire fighter teams with protective suits disinfect the Tajrish Bazaar as a precaution to the coronavirus (Covid-19) in Tehran, Iran on March 06, 2020. Fatemeh Bahrami - Anadolu
Egypt says cruise ship quarantined over new virus cluster 07 Mar 2020 - 06:15 pm
People look at a man wearing a protective mask as a means of prevention against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Al Rahman mosque, after Friday prayers, in the southern suburb of Maadi, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Amr
Iranian lawmaker dies of novel coronavirus 07 Mar 2020 - 12:42 pm
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Hungary suspends issuing visas to Iranians over coronavirus fears 06 Mar 2020 - 11:55 pm
Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto (C) arrives at the Informal meeting of EU Foreign Affairs ministers (Gymnich) at Luznica Castle near Zagreb on March 5, 2020. / AFP / Damir Sencar
Adviser to Iran's foreign minister dies of coronavirus 06 Mar 2020 - 12:31 pm
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Palestine confirms 7 coronavirus cases in Bethlehem 05 Mar 2020 - 10:22 pm
Palestinian citizens wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus (COVID-19) at public places in Bethlehem, West Bank on March 05, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun / Anadolu Agency)
Unions criticise Norwegian fund over UN settlement blacklist 05 Mar 2020 - 10:22 pm
Palestinian industrial workers pack freshly-wrapped wafer biscuits into boxes at a factory in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 17, 2019. AFP / Abbas Momani
Syrian girl who laughed off shelling starts new life in Turkey 04 Mar 2020 - 06:37 pm
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Iranian trade minister tests positive for coronavirus 04 Mar 2020 - 11:42 am
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Netanyahu leads in Israeli election, but still lacks majority 03 Mar 2020 - 08:49 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party election ballots are seen on the floor following Netanyahu's address to supporters at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel March 3, 2020. Reuters/Amir Cohen
Israel has voted three times in a year. What happens now? 03 Mar 2020 - 07:32 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara address supporters as confetti falls upon them at the Likud party campaign headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv early on March 3, 2020, after polls officially closed. AFP / Gil Cohen-Mage
Kremlin 'strongly rejects' U.N. allegations that Russia committed war crimes in Syria in 2019 03 Mar 2020 - 06:35 pm
A falconer of the Kremlin ornithological service holds Alpha, a 20-year-old female goshawk, while patrolling in Moscow on March 21, 2019. AFP / Alexander Nemenov
Iran orders troops to fight coronavirus outbreak as 77 dead 03 Mar 2020 - 06:35 pm
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei using a shovel while in the process of planting a tree in a garden during a ceremony marking the week of