At first, the kitchen at the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara cooked 40,000 meals each day for the hungry who live on the streets of India's capital city, or who have lost...
May 21, 2020
Faustino López was terrified after his wife, Angélica, was hospitalized with the coronavirus last month. Deeply shaken by seeing her so seriously ill after 45 years of marriage, and worried...
May 21, 2020
A powerful cyclone that slammed into coastal India and Bangladesh has left damage difficult to assess Thursday and about 20 deaths. In Bangladesh up to eight people have died, and...
May 20, 2020
President Jair Bolsonaro unveiled rules Wednesday expanding the prescription of chloroquine, the predecessor of an anti-malaria drug promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump, for coronavirus patients despite a lack of...
May 20, 2020
Residents of Santo Antonio do Ica hid from the sun under umbrellas as they waited anxiously for the twin turboprop plane to land in their town in the farthest reaches...
May 20, 2020
Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, who won a brief reprieve from deportation from the United States earlier this month when his removal was canceled by U.S. Immigration and...
May 20, 2020
An Italian woman has been identified as the lucky winner of an oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was offered up in a charity raffle Wednesday. Raffle organizers identified her...
May 20, 2020
The president of Madagascar, the island off the southeastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, has been touting a homemade plant-based drink as a “miracle cure” for COVID-19, the...
May 20, 2020
They see themselves as public health detectives, working 24/7 to track the coronavirus' insidious spread through a country of 83 million, blending door-to-door hoof work with mobile apps, CCTV footage...
May 20, 2020
A strong cyclone blew heavy rains and strong winds into coastal India and Bangladesh on Wednesday after more than 2.6 million people were moved to shelters in a frantic evacuation...
May 20, 2020
Australia's success in curbing COVID-19 infections is allowing it to slowly ease some restrictions even as it remains largely closed off from the rest of the world, taking its economy...
May 20, 2020
One of the most powerful storms over the Bay of Bengal in recent years lashed India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, forcing more than 3 million...
May 20, 2020
Twenty years after Hezbollah guerrillas pushed Israel's last troops from southern Lebanon, both sides are gearing up for what could be another war, one that neither seems to want. Israeli...
May 20, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors in South Korea had their temperature checked and rubbed their hands with sanitizer as they returned to school Wednesday, many for the first...
May 20, 2020
South Korean students began returning to schools Wednesday as their country prepares for a new normal amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a reminder that returning to normalcy won't be easy,...
May 20, 2020
A powerful cyclone began dumping rain on coastal India and Bangladesh early Wednesday as more than 2 million people were being moved to shelters before the storm hits land in...
May 19, 2020
Museums are starting to reopen in some countries as governments ease coronavirus restrictions, but experts warn one in eight worldwide could face permanent closure due to the pandemic. Studies by...
May 19, 2020
Beyond the hot spots of Brazil and Mexico, the coronavirus is threatening to overwhelm Latin American cities large and small in an alarming sign that the pandemic may be only...
May 19, 2020
At least 40 people were infected with the coronavirus in a hospital in Matanzas, a city east of Havana, an outbreak the Cuban government blames on the “lack of discipline”...
May 19, 2020
A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests there were 4,577 cases where doctors mentioned coronavirus or COVID-19 as a possible or probable cause of death, more than three...
May 19, 2020
The United Nations on Tuesday called for an immediate reduction of violence in Afghanistan, warning that civilian casualties at the hands of both the Taliban and Afghan security forces are...
May 19, 2020
Health experts say U.S. President Donald Trump's increasing attacks on the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the U.N. agency's role and...
May 19, 2020
A song took aim at an alleged abuse of power by Poland's ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. It rose to the top of the chart of a public radio station....
May 19, 2020
Boris Johnson's government became embroiled in an ugly row over the U.K.'s coronavirus response, after a minister suggested mistakes were down to the "wrong" advice from scientific advisers. "You can...
May 19, 2020
Spain's government is proposing a 14-day extension for country's monthslong state of emergency, once it expires May 23. The government will seek to extend the state of emergency "to June...
May 19, 2020
Syria has frozen the assets of President Bashar Assad's cousin Rami Mahklouf, a powerful businessman who recently complained of shakedowns by people close to the president. In documents issued Tuesday...
May 19, 2020
Prince Charles on Tuesday threw his voice behind a noble effort to assist harvesters who are hampered by the pandemic. The Prince of Wales called on his countrymen to join...
May 19, 2020
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday declared an end to all agreements and understandings with Israel and the United States, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. Abbas' statement came...
May 19, 2020
Authorities in India and Bangladesh evacuated hundreds of thousands of people Tuesday as a powerful cyclone over the Bay of Bengal moved toward the countries' coastal areas. Cyclone Amphan is...
May 19, 2020
India's coronavirus infections crossed the 100,000 mark and are escalating at the fastest pace in Asia, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi further relaxed the country's nationwide lockdown to boost...
May 19, 2020
Hong Kong's leader signaled that the city would extend social-distancing measures, despite objections from pro-democracy groups that a ban on large gatherings was being used to suppress protests. Chief Executive...
May 19, 2020
More than a century ago, the Sotiria hospital in Athens was built as a public sanatorium for patients with a feared infectious disease that spread through coughing and killed indiscriminately...
May 19, 2020
A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests there were 4,577 cases where doctors mentioned coronavirus or COVID-19 as a possible or probable cause of death, more than three...
May 19, 2020
A South Korean soccer club wanted to recreate the magic of a live stadium audience, but perhaps went too far in accepting the help of a sex doll manufacturer to...
May 18, 2020
Even as restaurants reopen to dine-in guests during the coronavirus pandemic, things are far from returning to normal. That became abundantly clear as some establishments revealed how they would be...
May 18, 2020
As COVID-19 reached remote indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon, the government agency responsible for protecting native people brushed off calls for action, focusing instead on waging ideological battles, according to...
May 18, 2020
French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard, has died. He was 94. His family confirmed...
May 18, 2020
Flooding in central Somalia has affected nearly 1 million people, displacing about 400,000 people, the United Nations said Monday, warning of possible disease outbreaks because of crowding where the displaced...
May 18, 2020
It was the biggest single day increase since an ill-prepared Haiti first confirmed that the novel coronavirus had arrived at its shores. After days of single digits and spikes still...
May 18, 2020
An Israeli district court on Monday convicted a Jewish extremist of murder in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, a case that had sent...
