Mathematical model prepared for Health Ministry says as many as 1,440,000 Israelis could be infected without containment measures

Attorney general says decision to bypass Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and approve controversial phone tracking with no parliamentary oversight was made to 'save lives'

Police disperse angry crowds that push into the courtyards of Mashhad's Imam Reza and Qom's Fatima Masumeh shrines; officials start checking people trying to leave major cities

Two blasts hit Besmaya base south of Baghdad in third such attack within a week; initial reports make no mention of casualties

Thousands of citizens believed to be in South America, where several countries have enacted travel bans and flight suspensions

A middle-of-the-night cabinet decision to okay shadowing citizens whose only crime was getting sick or being near a sick person spreads alarm faster than a virus

Once upon a time there was an unhinged, megalomaniacal, authoritarian leader who turned an epidemic into a humanitarian crisis

Stay home, one official pleads; we only have narrow window left to rein in virus, warns another; stay away from grandparents, Bennett tells 'ticking bomb' youngsters