The director-general of the World Health Organization warns the coronavirus epidemic has reached a decisive point and all countries must prepare for the possibility of a global pandemic of this deadly respiratory disease.

International Edition takes a look at the effect the COVID-19 has had on South Korea, Japan, the economy and more. Plus: Turkish officials say nearly two dozen soldiers were killed in an air strike by Syrian government forces in northeast Syria. As swarms of locusts rapidly multiple, a lack of supplies means East African countries are struggling to contain the plague that threatens food security for millions of people.

Those stories and more are all on this International Edition.