Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region lock down over-crowded labor camps and areas with large populations of low-wage workers, leaving migrant workers stranded and jobless.

Turkey has imposed a partial curfew on citizens under the age of 20 and has closed the borders of 31 cities as part of measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus spread.

The coronavirus outbreak has sparked a mass exodus of migrants across India.

Eight US senators urge the Trump administration to provide assistance to Palestinians to help them fight the spread of coronavirus.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread rapidly across the US, many Americans with no paid sick leave face the hard choice of going to work and potentially contracting the virus, or staying home and losing their job.

The new coronavirus is likely to infect up to 70% of the population in Germany, Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

The Louvre Museum in Paris closes doors to visitors after workers staged a walkout amid fears of coronavirus outbreak.

French energy workers protesting against pension reform cut power to the world's largest wholesale fresh food market, Rungis, near Paris, a hard-line union says.

Sixteen flights to and from Lisbon airport have been cancelled this weekend as a result of a three-day strike by airport workers.

Four miners have been killed after a rock fall at a South African gold mine trapped five workers underground.