By Mujib Mashal from NYT World https://ift.tt/39bRbvh
via IFTTT After more than a year of talks, the agreement lays out the beginning of the end of the United States’ longest war. But many obstacles remain.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2x07hKB
via IFTTT The country has the largest coronavirus outbreak outside of China, with a total of 3,150 cases.

By Hannah Beech from NYT World https://ift.tt/32BbK1G
via IFTTT Taxi and bus drivers are on the forefront of the spread of the coronavirus in Asia, even as a tourism downturn hurts their business.

By Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone from NYT World https://ift.tt/3addS2e
via IFTTT Masoumeh Ebtekar, President Hassan Rouhani’s deputy for women’s affairs and the highest-ranking woman in the government, was at least the seventh Iranian official to test positive.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/32DG7EJ
via IFTTT The World Health Organization said the virus, found in at least 56 countries so far, poses a “very high” global risk. But the White House accused the media of sowing fear to hurt President Trump.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Vsn2DZ
via IFTTT More than a dozen countries recorded their first cases in the past 48 hours, as the W.H.O.’s director general said the outbreak had ‘pandemic potential.’

By Choe Sang-Hun from NYT World https://ift.tt/38anzgQ
via IFTTT Opposition politicians are vowing to make what they call Moon Jae-in’s incompetence the top election issue ​for April 15 parliamentary polls.

By Carlotta Gall from NYT World https://ift.tt/32wOPot
via IFTTT The Turkish Army suffered mass casualties in the strike, officials said, an attack that could set off a direct conflict between Turkey and Russia.

By Motoko Rich, Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue from NYT World https://ift.tt/2vodJu9
via IFTTT The country, unlike others, has not experienced a sharp increase in reported cases, but it is under pressure to act decisively to preserve the Tokyo Olympics.

By Vivian Wang from NYT World https://ift.tt/2T4xqAi
via IFTTT More than 80 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases are not severe, according to a large Chinese study. But mild symptoms could also make the epidemic harder to contain.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Pv3tai
via IFTTT Japan shutters all schools in an effort to combat the outbreak, becoming only the second country to make such a move, after China.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/3cbgteT
via IFTTT Five European countries have reported cases linked to Italy, and an American soldier in Korea became the first U.S. serviceman to be infected.

By Jason Horowitz from NYT World https://ift.tt/3a2OCMo
via IFTTT Milan is not a closed city, but it is a drastically slowed one, after a spike of cases in the region, raising anxiety about a broader slowdown.

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Suhasini Raj and Sameer Yasir from NYT World https://ift.tt/3816qpr
via IFTTT As President Trump toured India’s capital, at least 11 people were killed in communal clashes that have upended a working-class neighborhood.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Taz7Ly
via IFTTT An Italian doctor staying at a resort in the Canary Islands has tested positive for the virus. New outbreaks in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are renewing fears of a coming global pandemic.

By David D. Kirkpatrick, Farnaz Fassihi and Mujib Mashal from NYT World https://ift.tt/2PnQMhz
via IFTTT Long a regional crossroads, Iran is spreading the new coronavirus to a host of neighboring countries. Many are ill equipped to cope.

By The New York Times from NYT World https://ift.tt/2wAvSVQ
via IFTTT “Namaste Trump,” the prime minister’s unabashed homage to the U.S. president, took over a 110,000-seat cricket stadium.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2VfBb7B
via IFTTT New cases in Bahrain and Afghanistan indicate a rapid spread. South Korea reported hundreds of new infections and Iran said at least 12 people there had died, the highest toll outside China.

By Kim Barker, Catherine Porter and Grace Ashford from NYT World https://ift.tt/2HKt3DV
via IFTTT The fashion executive Peter Nygard has clashed for years with his neighbor in the Bahamas, the billionaire Louis Bacon. The latest development is a lawsuit saying Mr. Nygard sexually exploited teenage girls.

By Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo from NYT World https://ift.tt/2v8Y3uN
via IFTTT The country announced more than 150 cases, many in the densely populated region around Milan, as officials closed schools and canceled Venice’s carnival celebrations.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/38RLF0T
via IFTTT With more than 600 cases confirmed, President Moon Jae-in empowered the government to lock down cities and restrict travel, though he announced no specific measures.

By Motoko Rich from NYT World https://ift.tt/2VfjFQK
via IFTTT More than three days passed before Japan imposed a quarantine. That delay and other missteps helped produce the largest outbreak of the virus beyond China.

By Vivian Wang, Donald G. McNeil Jr., Farnaz Fassihi and Steven Lee Myers from NYT World https://ift.tt/32i38Nj
via IFTTT Health officials called the surge in reported infections “very worrisome,” as cases soared in South Korea. Europe and North America reported a big uptick in infections.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Vbrozp
via IFTTT The increase raised fears about the infection’s global spread on a day when Iran’s coronavirus death toll reached five, the highest outside China.

By Choe Sang-Hun from NYT World https://ift.tt/37J9HK1
via IFTTT As the country’s infection numbers soar, most cases have been connected to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which mainstream churches consider a cult.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2HF5cWk
via IFTTT The number of confirmed cases in the country, many connected to a single church, doubled in just a day.

By Sui-Lee Wee and Makiko Inoue from NYT World https://ift.tt/2vU0Wzt
via IFTTT Will the virus spiral beyond China? Public health experts are closely studying cluster cases in other Asian countries.

By Hannah Beech from NYT World https://ift.tt/2V27VRA
via IFTTT After a cruise ship docked in Cambodia, passengers streamed off the ship, maskless, and fears are rising that the country could become a vector of transmission.

By MUJIB MASHAL from NYT World https://ift.tt/39NzrXh
via IFTTT The long-disputed result was contested by opposition candidates, threatening another crisis just ahead of a potential U.S.-Taliban peace deal.

By MUJIB MASHAL, KATIE ROGERS, ZABIHULLAH GHAZI and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF from NYT World https://ift.tt/39Hlz0r
via IFTTT This time when U.S. soldiers are killed by an Afghan, Trump does not call off talks with the Taliban. Is ending the war the only way to end these killings?

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/328kegD
via IFTTT Official figures from China suggest that the disease caused by the coronavirus has a fatality rate of at least 2.3 percent. In contrast, the flu’s fatality rate in the United States is 0.1 percent.

By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2UXXmPj
via IFTTT China's government is enlisting the help of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd to expand color-based systems for tracking individuals affected with the coronavirus nationwide.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Hlu6dg
via IFTTT Two Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted of extremism in Russia and four more arrested, one of whom reported being tortured in custody, the religious group said Friday.

By STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2u6IkMl
via IFTTT The resignation came after silence from Downing Street about an adviser who once said blacks have lower IQs than whites.

By HANNAH BEECH from NYT World https://ift.tt/2V27VRA
via IFTTT After a cruise ship docked in Cambodia, passengers streamed off the ship, maskless, and fears are rising that the country could become a vector of transmission.

By AUSTIN RAMZY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2SxoMKi
via IFTTT A leaked government document shows how people were monitored and selected for internment camps in Xinjiang.

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OZWC8K
via IFTTT In a country that has endured three decades of chaos — from extremist attacks and environmental crises — the responders, medics, road-builders and educators are often not government workers, but young volunteers.

By NORIMITSU ONISHI from NYT World https://ift.tt/2SV4Ksj
via IFTTT Hotels, stores and destinations across the Continent have come to rely on visitors from China. Quarantine measures have changed all that.

By AMY CHANG CHIEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/39xMdZM
via IFTTT The family of Chloe Chang, a Taiwanese woman, is effectively trapped in Hubei Province, and in the middle of a spat between China and Taiwan.

By MOTOKO RICH from NYT World https://ift.tt/322uJC5
via IFTTT The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo had said that cruise ship passengers carrying the coronavirus would not be allowed to board evacuation flights, but the decision was apparently reversed at the last minute.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/3bJ6OfB
via IFTTT Xu Zhiyong, a prominent Chinese legal activist, went silent over the weekend. His girlfriend, Li Qiaochu, a social activist, has gone missing.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2wnZeqy
via IFTTT Fourteen passengers, who were believed to be well before they were evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan on Monday, were found to be infected while boarding a charter plane to the United States.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Sy0AYv
via IFTTT Problems with electronic voting systems forced the Dominican Republic to suspend municipal elections across the country on Sunday.

By STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2HtGyYQ
via IFTTT Fast on the heels of another big storm, Dennis has caused flooding and misery for the second straight weekend.

By PATRICK KINGSLEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/3bG2nCf
via IFTTT Depending on whom you ask, the People’s Jihadists are Iran’s government-in-waiting or a duplicitous terrorist cult that forbids sexual thoughts. What are they doing in Albania?

By AUSTIN RAMZY and MOTOKO RICH from NYT World https://ift.tt/31Y6BRb
via IFTTT As Americans scrambled to pack their bags for a chartered flight home, the number of coronavirus cases aboard the Diamond Princess grew to 355.

By RICHARD C. PADDOCK and SUI-LEE WEE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2vCmctH
via IFTTT The American woman left the Westerdam in Cambodia and traveled to Malaysia. Other passengers have flown on to other destinations.

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/31ZBXa6
via IFTTT The passenger from the Westerdam, which docked in Cambodia last week after being turned away elsewhere, was later found to have the virus in Malaysia, officials there said.

By DAVID E. SANGER and STEVEN ERLANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/38rjSUK
via IFTTT At a Munich security conference, the president of France urged Europe to create its own policy toward Russia.

By ELIAN PELTIER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Syv2BP
via IFTTT The death of an 80-year-old Chinese tourist in a Paris hospital was the first known fatality from the new virus outside Asia.