The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:

Chad says its soldiers have killed some 1,000 jihadists in an operation on the islands of Lake Chad that targeted Boko Haram fighters.

Although still damaged and scarred by fire, Notre Dame Cathedral is ? if only for an instant ? coming back to life as a center for prayer in a Paris locked down against the coronavirus.

They don’t chant, they don’t move, and they mostly wear the wrong colors.

The circle of contagion around the Rev. Angelo Riva couldn?t have been tighter.

Thomas Ravelli was talking about the coronavirus ? what else? ? when his thoughts turned to Sweden?s fairly relaxed attitude to a pandemic that has shut down much of the world.

Renault says it is seeking billions in state-backed loans, cancelling its dividend for 2019 and its chairman is taking a pay cut, as the French automaker tries to weather the coronavirus crisis.

A roadside bomb exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary vehicle in restive southwestern Baluchistan province Friday, killing two soldiers who were clearing the area for fencing the border with Afghanistan, two intelligence officials said.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have endorsed the setting up of a regional fund to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and discussed a planned video summit of their leaders with counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea.

Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years.