China sent scientists to climb Mount Everest while the world's highest peak is empty of commercial climbers because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab, but declined to describe the evidence, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing over the origins of the deadly outbreak.
After Adolf Hitler annexed his native Austria and Allied bombs laid waste to Vienna, Hannelore Cruz traveled to Portugal without her parents as a refugee from hunger, cold and postwar … Click to Continue »
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who vanished from public view for the last three week and was rumored to be critically sick or even dead, resurfaced in public, North … Click to Continue »
The World Health Organization wants to work with governments to gradually resume normal passenger travel, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, while stressing that the global coronavirus crisis … Click to Continue »
The Canadian government on Friday announced a ban on assault-style rifles, including those used in a recent mass shooting that left nearly two dozen dead. "These weapons were designed for … Click to Continue »
India's nationwide lockdown will be extended by two weeks after May 4, the government said on Friday, while allowing "considerable relaxations" of anti-coronavirus measures in lower-risk districts. The home ministry … Click to Continue »
