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Built in 10 days, China’s virus hospital takes 1st patients

By JOE McDONALD | February 3, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — The first patients arrived Monday at a 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days as part of China's sweeping efforts to fight a new virus that is causing global alarm.Huoshenshan Hospital and a second 1,500-bed facility due to open this week...

DHS: New screening to begin amid coronavirus concerns

February 3, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. steps up its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security is warning airline passengers that their flights may wind up rerouted if officials discover mid-flight that someone onboard has been...

Impeachment trial heads to historic end in frenetic week

By HOPE YEN | February 3, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's impeachment trial heads toward a historic conclusion this week, with senators all-but-certain to acquit him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after narrowly rejecting Democratic demands...

Man wearing fake bomb stabs 2 in London and is shot to death

By GREGORY KATZ and DANICA KIRKA | February 2, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offenses strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy London street Sunday before being shot to death by police, officials said.Deputy Assistant Commissioner...

Europeans flee China, France urges help for poor nations

February 2, 2020

A second French-chartered airliner carrying 300 evacuees from China flew to Europe on Sunday as more foreigners fled the rapidly spreading new virus.The wide-body Airbus A380 landed at a military base in southern France with passengers who included citizens...

Uneasy quiet in Mideast, month after Iran strike against US

By LOLITA C. BALDOR | February 2, 2020

ABOARD THE USS HARRY S TRUMAN (AP) — Nearly a month after Iran launched a rare direct military attack against United States forces in Iraq, an uneasy quiet has settled across the Mideast.Watching fighter jets roar off the flight deck of the aircraft...

France to send extra 600 troops to fight Sahel extremists

February 2, 2020

France will deploy 600 additional soldiers in the African Sahel region to combat extremists, raising the amount of troops there to 5,100, the country's defense minister said Sunday.In a statement, Defense Minister Florence Parly said most of the reinforcements...

Quarantines await Europeans flown home amid virus outbreak

February 1, 2020

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European governments ramped up flights Saturday to bring their citizens back from China amid the outbreak of a new virus that has sickened thousands of people.A German air force plane arrived in Frankfurt carrying 128 passengers...

China death toll reaches 259; WHO warns countries to prepare

By JOE McDONALD and SAM McNEIL | February 1, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — China’s death toll from a new virus rose to 259 on Saturday and a World Health Organization official said other governments need to prepare for“domestic outbreak control” if the disease spreads in their countries.Beijing criticized...

Pentagon approves using military bases to quarantine 1,000

February 1, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday approved a request from the Department of Health and Human Services for the possible use of military facilities to accommodate 1,000 people who may have to be quarantined upon arrival from overseas...

Trump acquittal now likely Wednesday; Senate nixes witnesses

By LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER, and ZEKE MILLER | February 1, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate narrowly rejected Democratic demands to summon witnesses for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late Friday, all but ensuring Trump's acquittal in just the third trial to threaten a president's removal in U.S....

U.S. evacuees ‘relieved’ about quarantine on military base

By AMY TAXIN | January 31, 2020

RIVERSIDE, California (AP) — Nearly 200 Americans evacuated from China because of the new virus are "very relieved' to be quarantined at a military base in Southern California for two weeks, one of them said Friday.“All of us really want to stay here...