BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces entered a town south of Idlib city on Tuesday, in a significant advance for President Bashar al-Assad as he seeks to recapture rebel-held territory in the country’s northwest, a war monitor and pro-government media said. Government forces entered Maarat al-Numan and were combing its districts, the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper […]

An American war veteran got the surprise of a lifetime when he discovered the true value of a Rolex he bought decades ago for US$346. The Antiques Roadshow guest, referred to only as David in a video clip from the show, bought his 1971 Rolex watch while serving in the U.S. air force in 1974. […]

OTTAWA – Jack Hughes bailed out the New Jersey Devils after his team nearly collapsed in the third period against the Ottawa Senators. Hughes scored the shootout winner as the Devils snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Senators Monday night. Hughes also scored the overtime winner when the two teams […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan reported its first case of domestic transmission of the new coronavirus on Tuesday and raised its travel warning for China, saying people should avoid going unless absolutely necessary following the outbreak of the virus there. Taiwan and China have close economic and cultural ties, and the island has reported eight confirmed […]

(Reuters) – The United States is considering new steps to counter a coronavirus outbreak that has killed over 100 people in China and nothing is off the table in terms of possible travel restrictions for China, the U.S. health secretary said on Tuesday. The United States, which so far has five confirmed cases of the […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told the visiting chief of the World Health Organization on Tuesday that he was confident of winning the battle against a “devil” coronavirus that has killed 106 people and spread across the world. A growing number of countries are planning to evacuate their citizens from Wuhan, a central […]

The coronavirus outbreak has killed over 130 people with at least 6,000 people are thought to be infected. Centred on the city of Wuhan in China, that number could even be much higher because symptoms can remain dormant for some time. The Wuhan coronavirus is a serious concern because carriers can unwittingly infect large numbers […]

Rooco Ltd., an Alberta-based company that fought drivers’ traffic tickets in court, has shut down. In a statement posted to its website Tuesday, Rooco said it has “ceased substantially all operations and has begun providing notices to customers of the termination of the company’s services.” Global News interviewed one of the founders in May 2018 […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Four people who work at the same company in southern Germany have been infected with the coronavirus, and one of them contracted it from a colleague visiting their workplace in China, officials said on Tuesday. The cases raise concerns about the spread of the flu-like virus that broke out in the central […]

(Reuters) – Finnish airline Finnair said it would suspend its routes to Nanjing and Beijing’s Daxing airport until the end of March, the first European airline to cancel flights to mainland China amid growing fears about the spread of a new flu-like virus. The move comes after Beijing suspended international group travel from the country […]