Philippine military officials say a long-held Dutch hostage has been shot and killed by his captors when he tried to escape during a gunbattle in southern jungles. Ewold Horn, his Swiss friend and their Filipino companion were abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants during a birdwatching trip in Tawi Tawi province in 2012. Horn's Filipino companion managed to escape shortly after their abduction while Swiss captive dashed to freedom years later. At least six militants were also killed in the firefight. 

Philippines&nbsp;president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened that those who violate lockdown will be shot at sight. He added that anyone who attempts to 'create trouble' during the month-long lockdown and those who abuse medical workers won't be tolerated. In a televised national address on Wednesday, Duterte ordered the country's security forces to 'shoot down' the troublemakers. The Philippines has recorded 96 coronavirus deaths and 2,311 confirmed cases, but infections are now being reported in the hundreds every day.

Israel's Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has been put into isolation after being tested positive for Covid-19, pushing all the top officials, including Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and National Security Adviser Meir Ben Shabbat&nbsp;into self-quarantine.&nbsp;Litzman and his wife, who also has contracted the virus, are in isolation, feeling well and are being treated, the health ministry said in a statement.&nbsp;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier gone into&nbsp;self isolation&nbsp;after a close aide was found to have contracted the Virus, but he has so far tested negative.&nbsp;Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and National Security Adviser Meir Ben Shabbat have been at the forefront of fight against the deadly virus.

The last three weeks have marked one of the most devastating periods in history for the American job market, as first-time claims for unemployment benefits have surged more than 3,000% since early March.&nbsp;6.6 million US workers filed for their first week of unemployment benefits in the week ending March 28 &mdash; which a new historic high.&nbsp;Businesses continue to lay off and furlough workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.&nbsp;

The parents of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl who was killed by a British-born terrorist 18 years ago, have called&nbsp;Omer Sheikh's commutation of sentence&nbsp;a mockery of justice and demanded that the prosecution in Pakistan should appeal the court verdict.&nbsp;Since Sheikh has been in prison for the past 18 years, his sentence will be counted from the time served, Pakistani media reported.&nbsp;Shiekh&nbsp;was released from a jail in India, along with terrorist Masood&nbsp;Azhar, in exchange of passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC814 in 1999.

Thailand is imposing a nationwide curfew from Friday to prevent people from leaving home at night&nbsp;in an effort to&nbsp;stop the spreading of the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced on Thursday that the curfew will be effective nationwide from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily. Thailand earlier declared emergency rule to contain the Covid-19 spread but the number of confirmed cases has been growing on daily basis,&nbsp;totalling&nbsp;to 1,875 on Thursday.

The&nbsp;head of the UN&rsquo;s Food and Agriculture Organization, Director-General of the WHO as well as the Director of the World Trade Organisation have all jointly warned that the world may face a global food shortage if the ongoing Covid-19 crisis is not managed well. As supermarket shelves go empty and international trade chains remain cut off, countries need to be careful that lockdowns&nbsp;and export restrictions&nbsp;do not impact trade flow and lead to global food shortage.&nbsp;

More than 3,800 firefighters are battling a forest fire in southwest China's Sichuan Province, as winds stoked the flames on Wednesday evening, China's official media reported.&nbsp;
The fire is threatening a historic Buddhist temple, a museum and a school of the city of Xichang in China's western Sichuan province, official China Central Television reported.
CCTV footage showed firefighters spraying water over the temple and surrounding areas to keep the building from burning.

After US President Donald Trump spoke to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the telephone on March 30, Washington has decided&nbsp;to buy from Russia ventilators, medical supplies and other personal protection equipment needed to treat patients infected with Covid-19.&nbsp;US has reported over 5,000 deaths and more than 200,000 infections, the highest in the world. As the country wrestles with the pandemic, it has faced a shortage of medical&nbsp;supplies&nbsp;and other gears needed to fight the virus.&nbsp;

A Pakistan court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of the man convicted for killing US journalist Daniel Pearl. The convict, Omar Saeed Sheikh,&nbsp;has now been given a reduced 7-year prison term and is expected to be released soon as he has been in jail since 2002. The other three convicts in the case, who were earlier given life sentences, have been acquitted. 38-year-old Daniel Pearl was abducted and&nbsp;killed in Karachi while doing story for Wall Street Journal in 2002.&nbsp;

US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Wednesday on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover up. "How do we know" if they are accurate, Trump asked at a press conference. "Their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side." Controversy around Beijing's transparency has strained ties, adding to bad feelings triggered by a conspiracy theory in China that the US military was to blame for the virus.

The UN's COP 26 climate change summit due to take place in the Scottish city of Glasgow in November has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, news reports said. About 30,000 people, including 200 world leaders, were scheduled to attend the 10-day conference for crucial talks to halt rising global temperatures.

The World Health Organization has voiced deep concern over the rapid escalation and global spread of COVID-19 cases. The deadly infection has now reached 205 countries and territories. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that in the past five weeks there has been "a near-exponential growth in the number of new cases and the number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week". He warned that the world will see "1 million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths worldwide in the next few days".

More than 900,000 cases of coronavirus have been officially detected worldwide since the pandemic emerged in China late last year. At least 905,589 infections including 45,719 deaths, have been recorded globally, with over 2 lakh cases and 4,476 deaths in the United States where the pandemic is spreading rapidly. Italy with 110,574 detected cases has the highest number of fatalities with 13,155 deaths. Spain has 102,136 cases including 9,053 deaths and China has 81,554 cases and 3,312 deaths.
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The coronavirus has killed 884 people over the past 24 hours in the US, a new one-day record for the country, Johns Hopkins University said on Wednesday evening.&nbsp;That took the total death toll in America to 4,475. The US by far has the highest number of reported cases anywhere in the world. The number of reported cases rose by 25,200 over the past 24 hours to 213,372, said the university's coronavirus tracker.

French health authorities reported 509 new deaths from the Covid-19, taking the total to 4,032 in the country. But, on the positive side, the rate of increase of deaths has decelerated in France after spiking the previous two days. France is now in its third week of lockdown to try to slow the spread of the novel virus. The government has ordered people to stay in their homes except for essential travel from March 17 until at least April 15.

Britain reported 563 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday bringing the total fatalities to 2,352, according to officials. This is the first time that the national toll has exceeded 500.&nbsp;Some 29,474 people have now tested positive, an increase of 4,324 over the previous day.&nbsp;Britain locked down last week&nbsp;in an attempt to&nbsp;combat the virus, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who himself has tested positive, warned that it would "get worse before it gets better".&nbsp;

Austria will make the wearing of face masks in supermarkets mandatory from April 6 to curb the spread of the coronavirus.&nbsp;Masks are being handed out by some supermarkets and are free of charge for the time being. Due to a shortage of masks the new rule only comes into effect on April 6. Until then people only have to wear masks if a supermarket can offer them &ndash; covering the face with a shawl is also accepted for the time being.

According to reports,&nbsp;China's infamous 'wet markets' have reopened to the public and&nbsp;are under the watchful eyes of guards. These markets are known for selling bats, pangolins,&nbsp;dogs and other wild and exotic animals&nbsp;for human consumption. The&nbsp;Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan is believed to be the epicentre of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus.&nbsp;Various reports suggest that a 57-year-old female shrimp seller could have been one of the first victims of Covid-19. Scientists&nbsp;suggest that the Covid-19 virus may have first lurked in a bat in China and hopped to another animal, before getting passed on to humans.&nbsp;Several scientists, medical experts and animal rights activists have called for a ban on China's wet markets.
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Britain's Prince Charles, who has recovered after testing positive for coronavirus, praised the country's healthcare workers and said it was a strange and distressing time for the nation. Charles came out of self-isolation after suffering mild symptoms, with his office saying he was in good health. In a video address, the prince said although he had recovered, he was still in a state of social distance and general isolation.

Stating that the penalties had not hampered Tehran's fight against the infection,&nbsp;Iran's president&nbsp;Hassan Rouhani has&nbsp;said that the United States lost a historic opportunity to lift sanctions on his country&nbsp;amid&nbsp;the&nbsp; coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;His remarks come after US renewed sanctions on the&nbsp;Middle Western&nbsp;country on Tuesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;The coronavirus has killed 2,898 people and infected 44,606 in Iran, making it the worst-hit country in the Middle&nbsp;West&nbsp;and prompting China and the United Nations to urge the United States to ease sanctions.&nbsp;

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