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Friday 27 March 2020

China bars most
foreigners to curb

imported virus cases

BEIJING (AP) — China ers will be exempt, and
says it is temporarily bar- foreign citizens coming
ring most foreigners from to China for “necessary
entering the country as it economic, trade, scientif-
seeks to curb the number ic or technological activi-
of imported coronavirus ties or out of emergency
cases. The foreign ministry humanitarian needs” can
announced late Thursday still apply for visas.
that even foreign citizens The ministry said in a
with residence permits will statement that: “The sus-
be prevented from enter- pension is a temporary
ing starting on Saturday. measure that China is
All visa-free transit policies compelled to take in light
will also be temporarily of the outbreak situation
suspended. and the practices of oth-
It said diplomatic work- er countries.”q
In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Blue House via Yonhap News Agency, South
Greece: Man arrested Korean President Moon Jae-in attends G-20 virtual summit to discuss the coronavirus disease
outbreak at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 26, 2020.
for transporting 12 Associated Press

teenage migrants The G20 video call: In virus

THESSALONIKI, them south towards Thes- era, even summits are virtual
Greece (AP) — Greek saloniki when he failed to
authorities arrested a Syr- stop for a police check.
ian man after finding 12 Greek police said the By TAMER FAKAHANY 2020, it was to be Riyadh, photographers' cameras
Egyptian teenagers hid- Syrian was charged with Associated Press Saudi Arabia. snapping, the only indica-
den in his van following illegally transporting mi- LONDON (AP) — The face- Chaired by Saudi King tion the virtual summit had
a car chase through the grants, dangerous driv- to-face tension among Salman, who is presiding started was a lone ticker on
northern Greek city of ing, theft and failing to foes was gone. So was the over the G20 this year, the Saudi TV.
Thessaloniki early Thurs- stop for a police check. in-person camaraderie meeting's purpose was to What else does the virtual
day, police said. He was also fined 150 among allies. tackle the pandemic and summitry cause? It makes
Police said they arrested euros (about $160) for Gone were the impromptu its economic implications transparency even more
the 22-year-old who had violating Greece’s new and urgent "bilats" — bi- as people lose their in- of an issue. There were no
allegedly picked up the lockdown orders as part lateral meetings between comes amid closures, cur- media briefings where jour-
teenagers, all boys aged of measures imposed to leaders to iron out a stick- fews and lockdowns. nalists could ask probing
between 15 and 17, from prevent the spread of the ing point. Gone was the im- In opening remarks, the questions of leaders or their
the Greek-Albanian bor- coronavirus.q age of one leader leaning Saudi king said, "This hu- deputies. There were no
der and had been driving over another seated coun- man crisis requires a global aides walking the sidelines,
terpart, whispering into an response. The world counts available to the news me-
Gunmen kill 2 Pakistani troops, ear in a conspiratorial fash- on us to come together dia to clarify, add context
ion before, perhaps, they and cooperate in order to and answer probing ques-
wound 4 near Iran border shared a laugh. Gone, for face this challenge." tions.
now, were the lavish din- But coming together never For Saudi Arabia, this was
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) vincial interior minister Zi- ners and toasts honed to seemed more of a meta- not what it expected or
— Gunmen gunmen aullah Longove. the host nation's cultural phor than it did at this par- wished. When its crown
opened fire on Pakistani The troops were patrol- traditions. ticular "gathering." prince, Mohammed bin
security forces patrolling ling the region where Like much else in the time Extraordinary images Salman, attended the G20
a remote border region smugglers have a strong of coronavirus, governing emerged on social media summit in Argentina at the
near Iran on Thursday, kill- presence. Pakistan has as a global leader attend- of conference call gal- end of 2018, it was largely
ing two troops, a provin- also stepped up security ing high-level summitry has lery shots — the kind that as a pariah. Video showed
cial minister said. along the Iran border in been unceremoniously up- legions around the world, him standing alone, apart,
Four other troops were recent weeks to check ended. pushed into working from after global revulsion at
also wounded in the at- on movement of people Thursday's virtual meeting home, have become ac- the slaying of journalist Ja-
tack in the town of Turbat in order to contain the of the Group of 20 nations, customed to seeing in re- mal Khashoggi at the king-
in impoverished Baluch- spread of the new coro- with more than a dozen cent days. dom's consulate in Istan-
istan province, said pro- navirus. q heads of state participat- Instead of unshaven or bul. The blame from many
ing, was less a global sum- dressed down colleagues, quarters was resting firmly
mit and more of a high- there were U.S. President at his door.
powered conference call. Donald Trump, Japan's Then came some salvation:
It lasted about 90 minutes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russia's President Vladimir
— the same as a standard India's Narendra Modi, Putin steadfastly made his
soccer match — instead French President Emman- way to bin Salman, and
of the usual, more languid uel Macron and Canada's they exchanged a robust
two days. Justin Trudeau, among oth- high-five with a wide smile.
Hangzhou, Hamburg, Bue- ers, interacting in pixels with For better or for worse,
nos Aires and Osaka had the Saudi monarch. these are the type of per-
been the hosts for the pre- Instead of wall-to-wall sonal moments that define
vious years' gatherings. For live video coverage and high-level summits. q