Dharam Singh Rajput can't afford to buy hand sanitizer, which could help ward off transmission of the coronavirus in his community. The Rajput family could opt for something more basic...
March 18, 2020
Grieving families are not allowed to enter cemeteries. Bodies that arrive for burial are not washed as they should be under Islamic custom. Nor are they wrapped in traditional white...
March 18, 2020
Italians were reprimanded on Wednesday for failing to respect home confinement rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as deaths linked to the pandemic jumped to nearly 3,000. "Perhaps...
March 18, 2020
The first time Alison Blue visited Morocco last year, she made a decision: "I thought it was the most amazing place and that other people should see it," she said....
March 18, 2020
BEIJING – China has reported no new cases in Hubei, the original epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, and zero locally transmitted cases across mainland China over the past day,...
March 18, 2020
Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank surged ahead in 2019, a watchdog group said in a report Tuesday, maintaining a rapid pace that has drawn strength from the friendly...
March 18, 2020
When Dr. Ismail al-Mansouri goes to work in Yemen's capital, he puts on one of the hospital's few pairs of medical gloves. Then he enters a cramped clinic teeming with...
March 18, 2020
Singapore, a tiny city-state of less than 6 million people, had one of the earliest and biggest clusters of cases of the coronavirus in early February, before it began its...
March 18, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on his Facebook page that the result of his second coronavirus test was negative. “I inform that my second test for...
March 18, 2020
Three weeks into Italy's coronavirus crisis, Dr. Sergio Cattaneo has seen an unused ward outfitted into an intensive care unit in six days, a hospital laundry room converted into a...
March 17, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed As state and local courtrooms across the country have shuttered their doors, the federal immigration system remains open. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department...
March 17, 2020
At least three rockets struck Baghdad's fortified Green Zone near the American Embassy late Tuesday, a day after an attack on a training base south of Baghdad where U.S.-led coalition...
March 17, 2020
Residents confined across Italy turned to music to keep spirits high during the nationwide quarantine, taking to their balconies and windows to communicate with others, clapping, dancing, and singing. …...
March 17, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Guatemalan leaders have blocked the U.S. from deporting asylum seekers back to their country, according to Guatemala's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is still unclear when...
March 17, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed The Haitian government's requirement that arriving U.S. passengers must present medical clearance for the coronavirus has led to the cancellation of all flights by U.S.-based carrier...
March 17, 2020
Iraq's president Tuesday named a former governor of the city of Najaf as prime minister-designate, following weeks of political infighting, as Baghdad residents rushed to stock up on supplies hours...
March 17, 2020
On the fifth day after she fell ill with COVID-19 respiratory disease, Karoline Preisler could breathe again without wincing through severe pain in her chest. But the 48-year-old from a...
March 17, 2020
The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, was convicted Tuesday of murder for helping to plan the attack....
March 17, 2020
St. Patrick's Day celebrations around the world have fallen victim to the new coronavirus — but even a pandemic could not quash the desire to celebrate the color green, Guinness...
March 17, 2020
China will effectively expel a group of U.S. journalists and prohibit them from relocating to work in Hong Kong or Macau as a tit-for-tat over media access between the two...
March 17, 2020
European Union leaders agreed to restrict most travel into the continent in an unprecedented move aimed at slowing down the spread of a deadly coronavirus and mitigating its effects on...
March 17, 2020
Guatemala on Tuesday became the first Central American nation to block deportation flights from the United States in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a dramatic turnabout...
March 17, 2020
Political skirmishing between Washington and Beijing escalated Tuesday when China announced it was expelling another three U.S. journalists in response to Trump administration restrictions on Chinese media here. Secretary of...
March 17, 2020
Amid mounting global dread about coronavirus, the 12 young airline passengers apparently stirred scrutiny because of their facial attire – they all donned protective masks. According to Mexican authorities, that...
March 17, 2020
India could become the next global hot spot for virus cases, with experts warning containment measures that proved successful elsewhere in Asia may not work in the world's second-most populous...
March 17, 2020
It's 7 p.m. on a Friday night, a time when Aurel Johannes Marx's three-room brothel on the edge of Berlin would normally be preparing for its first customers. Sex for...
March 17, 2020
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, were released from an Australian hospital on Tuesday, five days after they were diagnosed with the new coronavirus, media reported. Queensland state's health...
March 17, 2020
Appearing before the cameras coughing and sweating profusely, the man leading Iran's response to the new coronavirus outbreak promised it was of no danger to his country. "Quarantines belong to...
March 17, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to rise, Latin American and Caribbean nations are enacting a number of drastic measures to try to...
March 16, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Border closures related to the coronavirus outbreak continued across Latin America and the Caribbean on Monday, as the Dominican Republic announced its first COVID-19 related death...
March 16, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Sequoia Mack and her friend flew from Baltimore to Puerto Rico Sunday night hoping to hit some clubs and celebrate her 21st birthday. Instead their night...
March 16, 2020
Cuba isolates 13 travelers from U.S. over coronavirus fears, but says country is “open” for tourists
Miami paywall drop embed Thirteen travelers from the United States have been isolated in Cuban hospitals and watched for symptoms of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, according to...
March 16, 2020
Under a covered pavilion near a steaming runway at Colombia's Tolemaida Air Base, dozens of American paratroopers lie sweating on a concrete slab. Green and brown camouflage face paint drips...
March 16, 2020
A 78-year-old member of the Iranian clerical body that chooses the country's supreme leader has died from the illness caused by the new coronavirus, news agencies reported Monday. He was...
March 16, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau significantly restricted the entry of non-residents into Canada to combat the spread of the coronavirus. At a news conference Monday from his residence in Ottawa, where...
March 16, 2020
The European Union could impose a 30-day entry restriction on all nonessential travel into the bloc in the coming days, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday....
March 16, 2020
Chile and Guatemala on Monday announced that they would join a number of other Latin American countries in closing their borders for 15 days in an attempt to contain the...
March 16, 2020
For real this time: There is no Ohio primary Tuesday. Health Director Dr. Amy Acton is ordering the polls closed as a health emergency. "During this time when we face...
March 16, 2020
The Islamic State has warned its terrorist organization to stay clear of Europe until coronavirus is under control. Would-be martyrs learned of the travel ban in the Islamic State newsletter...
March 16, 2020
"There's nothing now. Nothing at all,” said Yasser Aboud, as he looked away from his family's few remaining belongings, dumped on the floor of the bare single room that would...
