Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday postponed a nationwide vote on proposed constitutional amendments that include a change that would allow him to seek another term in power. Putin didn't...
March 25, 2020
By the time Patricia Núñez's cough started, she was already familiar with the dreaded dry hacking sound tormenting patients who had for weeks been filling the Madrid emergency ward where...
March 25, 2020
While Spanish authorities tell the public that staying home is the best way to beat the coronavirus pandemic, some people are staying out because home has come to mean the...
March 25, 2020
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The prince's Clarence House office says the 71-year-old is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 and...
March 25, 2020
Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment against 20 Saudi nationals over the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish media reports said Wednesday. The private DHA news agency...
March 25, 2020
The world's largest democracy went under the world's biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India's 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic, while in...
March 25, 2020
SINGAPORE – One of the most effective ways authorities can limit the spread of a pandemic is to immediately locate, test and isolate anyone who has had contact with a...
March 25, 2020
Prince Charles, 71, has tested positive for infection with the coronavirus, the British royal family said on Wednesday. Clarence House said Charles is self-isolating at home in Scotland with his...
March 25, 2020
Spain reported another 738 deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the deadliest day in the country to date. The total number of fatalities rose to 3,434, and the number of...
March 25, 2020
Governments should stop wasting precious time needed to fight the coronavirus after squandering an opportunity to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization's head said. "We squandered the first...
March 25, 2020
The Australian man accused of killing 51 people and wounding dozens of others in two Christchurch mosques in March 2019 changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty, New Zealand...
March 25, 2020
North Korean officials have sought urgent help from international contacts to increase coronavirus testing in a nation that could see its dilapidated health care system be crushed by an outbreak,...
March 25, 2020
India cricket captain Virat Kohli and his Bollywood actress wife Anushka Sharma have posted a video message to their compatriots urging them to stay at home for the next three...
March 25, 2020
In the first week of June 2019, World War II was on many people's minds. It was the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a week filled with events honoring the sacrifice...
March 25, 2020
Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of worship in the heart of the Afghan capital's old city on Wednesday, killing at least four people,...
March 24, 2020
Thousands of foreign tourists are leaving Cuba from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport, one day before the partial closure of the borders announced by the government to prevent the spread...
March 24, 2020
Russian authorities acknowledged Tuesday that a low number of coronavirus cases in the country could be a result of insufficient screening and warned that the nation must brace for the...
March 24, 2020
Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people that authorities suspect have died from the new...
March 24, 2020
The Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation that the games could not go ahead as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Olympic...
March 24, 2020
Albert Uderzo, one of the two creators of the beloved comic book character Asterix, who captured the spirit of the Gauls of yore and grew a reputation worldwide, died on...
March 24, 2020
Tours are canceled. Restaurants are empty. And centuries-old temples are quieter than usual in the ancient capital city of Japan, hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. All of Nara is...
March 24, 2020
Renowned jazz man Manu Dibango, to many the beloved “Papy Groove” who served as an inspiration and pioneer in his art, died on Tuesday with the coronavirus, his official Facebook...
March 24, 2020
March has not been a good month for Jessica Brar. It's the month her father died, the month that she and her husband divorced. This March brought the coronavirus. Monday...
March 24, 2020
Americans are making a mad dash south of the border in search of what President Donald J. Trump calls a "game changer" – a drug he calls a potential cure...
March 24, 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a total lockdown for 21 days in India, the world's second-most populous nation, to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. "From 12...
March 24, 2020
China's exclusion of people without symptoms from its official count of confirmed coronavirus cases is renewing concerns over whether its outbreak has truly come under control. Local authorities in Wuhan...
March 24, 2020
Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram killed 92 Chadian and dozens of Nigerian soldiers in two separate attacks, officials said Tuesday. Ninety-two soldiers were killed and 47 others injured when the...
March 24, 2020
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a "war-time" response package to the coronavirus pandemic from the G-20 group of leading economic powers. G-20 leaders "must inject massive resources...
March 24, 2020
As the novel coronavirus spreads in Mexico, doctors and nurses at public hospitals have begun protesting a shortage of personnel and basic supplies such as masks and gloves. Medical staff...
March 24, 2020
As the novel coronavirus spreads in Mexico, doctors and nurses at public hospitals have begun protesting a shortage of personnel and basic supplies such as masks and gloves. Medical staff...
March 24, 2020
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that the summer Olympics, set for Tokyo, will be postponed after reaching an agreement with the International Olympic Committee. The event will now...
March 24, 2020
The eastern French border city of Mulhouse was fought over by France and Germany across two centuries, but the horrors of the new coronavirus cluster tearing through this community of...
March 24, 2020
Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli's novel “Lost Children Archive” won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. Luiselli beat finalists...
March 24, 2020
U.S. embassies throughout Latin American and the Caribbean have started reaching to stranded Americans to help them get back home, and in some cases, the State Department is chartering flights...
March 23, 2020
As Washington continues to wrangle over how to rescue an economy gutted by the coronavirus, Puerto Rico announced Monday it will begin mailing out checks this week to keep workers,...
March 23, 2020
Cuban doctors are closely watching more than 37,000 people across the island with symptoms similar to those caused by the coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases rose to 40,...
March 23, 2020
Puerto Rico is joining the growing number of U.S. states postponing their Democratic presidential primary, as the novel coronavirus has upended events around the world. Over the weekend, Gov. Wanda...
March 23, 2020
As India expanded its virus-containment measures and halted its train network, the country's lifeblood, the federal government warned Monday of strict legal action for those who flout the rules. The...
March 23, 2020
The hunt for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies consumed the U.S. and Europe on Monday, as new coronavirus infections soared and political paralysis stalled efforts for a quick aid...
March 23, 2020
Puerto Rico on Monday reported its second death due to the novel coronavirus, saying a 73-year-old man from New York who was on vacation on the island, succumbed to the...
