Invoking need for coronavirus control, authoritarian-minded leaders act to consolidate power. Hungary’s Orban is only the latest. Source: ‘Coronavirus coup’?…
The new pandemic powers won by Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán may be a fatal blow for the country’s immunocompromised…
Harsh lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus pandemic extended worldwide Monday as the death toll soared past…
Source: Countries crack down on basic rights amid virus pandemic
Some 3,777 were fined and 48,273 were warned for violating what the government calls the ‘enhanced community quarantine’ Source: Over…
The police also seized 1,636 vehicles and registered cases against 3,612 people.Kerala reported nine new cases of the novel coronavirus…
Spain arrests more than 900 people for violating coronavirus lockdown orders Source: Spain arrests more than 900 people for violating…
Military observers believe that troops already allocated for internal security have been re-appropriated for this task. Source: Army announces completion…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of…
With much of the world on lockdown, the coronavirus crisis has chipped individual liberties everywhere. In more places, however, it…
(Bloomberg) — Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help…
Another US military command and control element is also now isolated in a third, undisclosed location. Source: COVID-19 Drives Command…
In the meantime, Gen. Jonathan Vance says the primary mission for all those at home is to stay healthy so…
Trump signs an order authorizing the secretaries of defense and homeland security to summon military and Coast Guard reservists to…
“It’s really easy to ratchet up these kinds of powers,” warns one analyst, “and really hard to ratchet them back…
The prospect, while still remote, is not purely hypothetical in the current crisis, and the risk is great. Source: Martial…
Anyone caught breaking Singapore’s social distancing rules can land themselves in prison from Friday after the city-state made it an…
South Africa came under a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on Friday, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in…
As the number of confirmed cases worldwide soared past 450,000, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that only a concerted…