British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday he has tested positive for the new coronavirus, but remains in charge of the U.K.'s response to the outbreak. Johnson's office said he...
March 27, 2020
Doctors and nurses in Italy's overwhelmed northern hospitals have welcomed a slight stabilizing in the number of coronavirus infections but fear the virus is still silently spreading in the south...
March 27, 2020
On a recent group chat, one of my teacher daughters working remotely in North Florida texts: “This makes me so sad. I talked to a parent today who said she...
March 27, 2020
From three-month suspensions on loan repayments and utility payments in El Salvador to putting cash in the hands of laid-off Jamaican hotel workers, Latin American and Caribbean nations are unveiling...
March 27, 2020
From three-month suspensions on loan repayments and utility payments in El Salvador to putting cash in the hands of laid-off Jamaican hotel workers, Latin American and Caribbean nations are unveiling...
March 27, 2020
From the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand to the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal, tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares as airlines cancel...
March 27, 2020
It's something that has never been tried before: 1.3 billion people – a fifth of the globe's population – locked down in one place for 21 straight days. Indian Prime...
March 27, 2020
Spain reported its deadliest day since the outbreak of the coronavirus, with 769 deaths in the past 24 hours. The total number of fatalities rose to 4,858, from 4,089, and...
March 27, 2020
A Trump administration effort to blame China for spawning the coronavirus has stalled for now at the United Nations Security Council, with other countries focused exclusively on urging joint global...
March 27, 2020
France's strict coronavirus lockdown will be extended for additional two weeks until April 15, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday. "After these first 10 days of lockdown, we are...
March 27, 2020
As the coronavirus has made its way around the world, more than 160 countries have closed schools. Nearly 90% of the world's student population is now out of class. In...
March 27, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Friday, becoming the world's highest-profile political leader to reveal an infection. "Over the last 24 hours I...
March 27, 2020
Malak el-Kashif left home on her birthday seven years ago. Walking into an uncertain future, she was underdressed for the weather and armed with little— except for some makeup, a...
March 27, 2020
Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public...
March 27, 2020
Fighting a growing number of cases of the coronavirus and with few other options, Puerto Rico on Thursday announced it will be extending a two-week lockdown for an additional two...
March 26, 2020
In January of 1990, a once powerful Latin American leader stood before a Miami judge to face charges that he'd taken $4.6 million in bribes in exchange for allowing his...
March 26, 2020
The U.S. accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking officials in his regime of conspiring with the Colombian terrorist group known as the FARC to export thousands of kilos...
March 26, 2020
What's that sound beneath the Eiffel Tower? It's silence — a rare phenomenon in big cities like Paris, but one that's increasingly common now that tourism is banned and millions...
March 26, 2020
The manicured lawns and pathways winding the flower beds at the Keukenhof spring garden, normally crowded with thousands of visitors on any given sun-splashed spring day, were deserted Thursday. A...
March 26, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief rival was chosen on Thursday as the new speaker of parliament, an unexpected step that could pave the way to a power-sharing deal between...
March 26, 2020
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has her first post-royal job: narrating a Disney documentary about elephants. Disney announced Thursday that the duchess, who is married to Britain's Prince Harry, is...
March 26, 2020
The face-to-face tension among foes was gone. So was the in-person camaraderie among allies. Gone were the impromptu and urgent “bilats” — bilateral meetings between leaders to iron out a...
March 26, 2020
La Parada, a neighborhood in the Colombian city of Cúcuta and where the main border crossing with Venezuela is located, was militarized on Wednesday, March 25 to try to contain...
March 26, 2020
In a stunning announcement amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Justice Department plans to announce Thursday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other government officials have been charged with turning Venezuela...
March 26, 2020
The Tokyo Olympics need new dates for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2021. Nothing much can get done until those dates are worked out by the International Olympic Committee,...
March 26, 2020
While spring-breakers were still cramming South Beach bars earlier this month, Puerto Rico's government was trying to turn the tourism-dependent island into an inhospitable fortress. Starting March 16, Gov. Wanda...
March 26, 2020
Igor Smirnov was introduced to opiates the day his first son was born, when he got celebratory drunk and a neighbor injected him with an intoxicating extract of opium poppies....
March 26, 2020
TEL AVIV, Israel – Centrist Blue and White alliance leader Benny Gantz was elected as speaker of the Israeli parliament Thursday, in a surprise move seen as opening the way...
March 26, 2020
Fears are strong in Mexican border cities that the poor will pay the price for wealthier Mexicans who brought the coronavirus home after foreign travel. Initial cases in the big...
March 26, 2020
Resisting calls to amp up the fight against the coronavirus, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his top aides continued to defend a strategy they say balances public health...
March 26, 2020
Paying no attention to the tenets of social distancing, the abaya-shrouded women – no masks or gloves among them – crowded into the Baghdad square surrounding the shrine to Imam...
March 26, 2020
China reported 67 new cases of coronavirus infection and six new deaths in the past day. No new cases were recorded in the original epicenter of the outbreak in Hubei...
March 26, 2020
Leaders from the Group of 20 nations on Thursday said they were injecting more than $5 trillion into the global economy and committed to do "whatever it takes" to overcome...
March 26, 2020
The biggest lockdown in human history – 1.3 billion Indians ordered to stay home to curb the spread of the coronavirus – has unleashed chaos across the country as stranded...
March 26, 2020
The man who committed the worst atrocity in New Zealand's modern history when he slaughtered 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges Thursday. The attacks...
March 25, 2020
Thousands of Cuban-Americans had acquired permanent residence in Cuba through a process known as repatriation, hoping to recover rights such as the inheritance of property or benefit from the public...
March 25, 2020
One year after killing 51 worshipers at two Christchurch mosques, an Australian white supremacist accused of the slaughter on Thursday changed his plea to guilty. Twenty-nine-year-old Brenton Harrison Tarrant pleaded...
March 25, 2020
The Cuban government's recent decision to close off the island in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, has left hundreds of people without jobs in Miami, home...
March 25, 2020
Veterinary hospitals are donating breathing machines, masks, gowns and other vital equipment and supplies purchased with Fido in mind, but now being redeployed to help doctors fight the spread of...
March 25, 2020
A day after officially postponing the Tokyo Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach invoked comments by President Donald Trump to defend himself from criticism on Wednesday. Bach spoke to about 400...
