Homework delivered via WhatsApp. "Minecraft" and Netflix instead of lectures and gym classes. Refrigerators as blackboards, harried parents, bored children – and no end in sight to what one 7-year-old...
March 13, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday that he tested negative for the coronavirus days after he met with President Donald Trump – and denounced as "fake news" reports that he...
March 13, 2020
As the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, Europe was taking extraordinary measures on Friday to stop its spread, with Spain planning to declare a state of emergency and countries...
March 13, 2020
This was to be a bumper year for Saudi Arabia. Billions of dollars' worth of megaprojects, marquee events, and hosting the G-20 signaled that a once-sealed kingdom was opening its...
March 13, 2020
BANGKOK – The U.S. Department of Defense suspended all domestic travel for personnel and their families during the coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement. The new restrictions apply to all...
March 13, 2020
From quarantining arriving travelers from overseas to nabbing those sneaking in with fevers, China and other parts of Asia are scrambling to prevent the new coronavirus from coming back to...
March 13, 2020
Police checkpoints were set up in Spain's Catalonia region as four towns were put under quarantine for coronavirus on March 12, as the number of new cases spiked in the...
March 13, 2020
As people in Italy were encouraged to stay home amid a coronavirus lockdown, some kept community spirit alive in unusual ways. Neighbors in Turin didn't let the lockdown stop them...
March 13, 2020
Fifty-one people were killed and dozens more injured when a lone gunman attacked two mosques in Christchurch last year. New Zealanders will commemorate those who died on the anniversary of...
March 13, 2020
Wearing a face mask, Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro spoke in a Facebook live about the coronavirus. He says his COVID-19 test results will be available "in the next few hours."...
March 12, 2020
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez urged President Donald Trump to suspend all travel between the U.S. and Cuba, citing concerns about the Cuban government's lack of transparency, a day after Cuban...
March 12, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed From shuttering schools to closing borders and banning tourists, the Caribbean and Latin America are taking drastic steps to try to limit the spread of the...
March 12, 2020
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March 12, 2020
Cuban immigrants, who have enjoyed U.S. privileges for decades, are now receiving the same treatment as other immigrants under new policies established by the Trump administration. The Homeland Security Department's...
March 12, 2020
Sweeping travel bans cascaded around the globe Thursday, walling off countries and even entire continents, keeping people inside their homes, and slowing the engines of commerce to stem the coronavirus...
March 12, 2020
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro declared a “state of permanent emergency” on Thursday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and canceled for 30 days all flights coming from Europe and Colombia. Maduro...
March 12, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott announced Thursday he will self-quarantine after having possible contact with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's press secretary Fabio Wajngarten during a meeting...
March 12, 2020
President Donald Trump said Thursday he's not worried about reports in Brazilian media that the press secretary for President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the coronavirus, just days after...
March 12, 2020
From salsa festival to sickbed. Puerto Rico on Wednesday night said it was trying to trace the movement of a Panamanian partygoer who spent the weekend dancing on the island...
March 12, 2020
Iraq's military on Thursday said it opened an investigation into a rocket attack hours earlier that killed three servicemen, including two Americans, at an Iraqi base housing coalition forces. At...
March 12, 2020
In a fearful time of nationwide lockdowns and supermarket-aisle fights over toilet paper, Zhi Peng Lee's website tracking the coronavirus is oddly reassuring. Charts and maps detail patients' ages and...
March 12, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his political rivals to put aside their objections to him and form an emergency government to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Netanyahu made...
March 12, 2020
After Europe awoke Thursday to news of President Donald Trump's decision to restrict travel between much of the continent and the United States, its leaders expressed indignation and bafflement over...
March 12, 2020
China's National Health Commission said the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in the country has passed, as it reported the lowest number of new infections in seven weeks. The number...
March 12, 2020
LONDON – Airlines are still digesting the implications of President Donald Trump's restrictions on travel from Europe but some wealthy Americans are already looking for ways to get home quickly....
March 12, 2020
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in self-isolation and working from home while his wife awaits the results of a COVID-19 test. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau had been exhibiting flu-like symptoms...
March 12, 2020
The wheels of justice are slowing down around the world as court systems based on open, public hearings deal with an outbreak that dictates the opposite. In Connecticut, where the...
March 12, 2020
Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are isolated in stable condition in an Australian hospital Thursday after contracting the new coronavirus, the actor and Australian officials said. The two-time...
March 12, 2020
As 2019 gave way to 2020 in a cloud of tear gas, and in some cases a hail of bullets, from Hong Kong to Baghdad, from Beirut to Barcelona and...
March 12, 2020
When the gunman walked into the Al Noor mosque, Temel Atacocugu was kneeling for Friday prayers. He looked up into the man's face, thinking he was a police officer because...
March 12, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Cuban official media reported Wednesday night that three Italian tourists are the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Caribbean island. According to a statement by...
March 12, 2020
As outbreaks of the new coronavirus that first emerged in China continue to spread in more than 100 countries — particularly those experiencing winter — one of the biggest unanswered...
March 11, 2020
The United States will send additional ships, aircraft and forces to South America and Central America this year to increase counternarcotics pressure and address Chinese and Russian influence in the...
March 11, 2020
Two Haitian-American businessmen convicted of conspiring to pay millions of dollars in bribes to Haitian government officials, including the aide to a prime minister, for a northwest Haiti port will...
March 11, 2020
Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency is reporting the Islamic Republic's senior vice president and two other Cabinet members have the new coronavirus. The report Wednesday night by Fars, believed to...
March 11, 2020
Myanmar's parliament rejected on Wednesday a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to officially become president. The rejection had been...
March 11, 2020
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Wednesday that his military would launch its harshest retaliation yet if the Syrian government breaks a fragile truce in Idlib province brokered last...
March 11, 2020
The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Wednesday he has received an apology from an executive board member who said the 2020 Games should be delayed a year...
March 11, 2020
The Russian parliament approved a sweeping constitutional reform in the third and final reading Wednesday, a move that will allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power for another 12...
March 11, 2020
This says more about today's Cuba than any words Uncle Bernie and his choir of young believers can spin. Making independent art is officially a crime in Cuba. So is...
