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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria came close to a standstill on Tuesday as it faced a second day of major restrictions on public life due to coronavirus, with Vienna Airport operating at a bare minimum, rail transport down 70% and a western region put under lockdown. FILE PHOTO: A police car…

Some 25,000 years ago, prehistoric humans gathered dozens of mammoth bones from the Russian steppes and arranged them in a massive circular structure for reasons that are still mysterious. The incredible structure is the “oldest known circular mammoth-bone feature built by modern humans on the Russian Plain,” according to a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The murder trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be closed to the public and media when it briefly resumes later this month in a Dutch courtroom.The decision announced Tuesday to close…

Olga Kurylenko, who starred in the James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace,” announced Sunday she has contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. “Locked up at home after having tested positive for Coronavirus,” she wrote on Instagram with a photo looking out her window. “I’ve actually been ill for…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPolice use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infectionGermany will impose temporary controls on its borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg on Monday to stop coronavirus spreading.Other EU states are also taking radical action, with…

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine will suspend all passenger flights from March 17, Interfax Ukraine quoted Parliament Speaker Dmytro Razumkov as saying on Friday evening. Ukraine earlier announced that it was banning foreign nationals from entering the country to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The country recorded its first death…

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, companies are helping stop the spread by restricting travel and encouraging working from home. In all cases, an emphasis has been placed on personal hygiene to minimize the speed of transmission.Samsung, in particular, is encouraging users to clean their phones by offering…

A Republican-led Senate committee has postponed a vote on a subpoena as part of its investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, but the chairman of the panel says the probe will move forwardBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated PressMarch 11, 2020, 7:52 PM3 min readWASHINGTON -- A Republican-led Senate…

By Allison Lampert and David LjunggrenMONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Iran has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kiev for analysis, an Iranian official said on Wednesday, a move that would end a two-month standoff over the recordings from the jet.Top Iranian officials have until now refused…

People in the US are worried about the new coronavirus outbreak. That concern is warranted: the virus is a scary new threat, it can cause serious harm, and there aren’t any medications that can stop it. That’s not to mention the cancellations of schools, popular events, and the general disruption…