Millions of migrant workers across the Gulf face uncertainty as host countries lock down, employers withhold wages or mull redundancies, and strict coronavirus containment measures lead to deportations and confinement.
A major breakthrough in China's three-month epidemiological battle against the coronavirus came on March 18 when no local infections were reported.
When Mrinal Sabharwal and his wife landed in New Delhi with hundreds of other passengers from Barcelona, they expected clean coronavirus quarantine facilities.
The global coronavirus pandemic has infected nearly 200,000 people worldwide, causing mass disruptions as governments continue trying to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness.
Serbia has declared a state of emergency to contain the coronavirus outbreak, shutting down schools and universities and deploying the military to guard hospitals.
The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) is an exiled Iranian opposition group with a sprawling complex in the hills of Albania.
Afghanistan has so far reported seven confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. But the war-torn country is bracing for more as thousands of Afghans return home from Iran each day.
Iran says the novel coronavirus has killed 54 more people in the country, raising the death toll to 291.
Days after the United States signed a historic initial peace deal with the Taliban, an old rivalry between neighbors Afghanistan and Pakistan is rearing its head.
A whistle-blower who escaped a Chinese "reeducation camp" to reveal the horrors of life in the gulag after escaping to Kazakhstan is one of a dozen recipients of the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award (IWOC) for 2020.
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