The viral epidemic that started in China is gaining an international foothold. At least 204 people have the coronavirus in South Korea, and two had died as of Friday morning. The first to fall ill contracted the disease in China, but officials now say it is spreading within South Korea, primarily in the southeastern city of Daegu. They have traced many of the cases back to a religious sect where an infected woman attended services before testing positive for the virus.

A 43-year-old German man killed nine people of foreign descent and injured six others in a shooting rampage on Wednesday outside Frankfurt, Germany. In a manifesto posted online, the suspect, who gave his name as Tobias Rathjen, called for the “complete extermination” of many “races or cultures in our midst.” Police said all of those killed had foreign backgrounds. Authorities found the alleged shooter and his 72-year-old mother dead at his home after the attack.

Students, tourists, and workers from China cannot visit Russia until the coronavirus outbreak subsides, government officials in Moscow announced on Tuesday. They had already halted most air and rail traffic to China and will still issue some visas for Chinese nationals with official business. So far, Russia has had three confirmed cases of the coronavirus: two Chinese citizens in Russia who were treated and released and a Russian national infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship now quarantined in Japan.

Democratic lawmakers want to void the expiration date of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The original deadline for states to ratify the women’s rights measure was in 1982, but the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to reopen the approval process. Virginia lawmakers ratified the amendment last month, bringing the number of states that have approved it up to the required 38.

A special prosecutor wants to revisit the case of actor Jussie Smollett. In January 2019, Smollett claimed he was beaten up by men shouting racist and anti-homosexual slurs. Police looked into it and said he hired two buddies to fake the attack for publicity. He originally faced charges after the incident, but the Chicago district attorney’s office dropped them in March without much explanation.

Cheers and jeers greeted Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó at the airport outside Caracas on Tuesday. He returned after a 23-day international tour that defied a travel ban imposed on him by disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Guaidó, recognized as president by his supporters in Venezuela, the United States, and other Western nations, made stops in South America, Europe, and the United States. U.S.

Four members of the Chinese military perpetrated one of the biggest data breaches in history, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Monday. The 2017 hacking of the credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the names, addresses, Social Security and driver’s license numbers, and other personal information of 145 million people. “The scale of the theft was staggering,” Barr said.