The coronavirus pandemic is forcing children to stay home and learn remotely. But in the depths of Kenya's slums, 12-year-old ballet student Eugene Ochieng faces huge obstacles to remote learning:...
May 13, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing children to stay home and learn remotely. But in the depths of Kenya's slums, 12-year-old ballet student Eugene Ochieng faces huge obstacles to remote learning:...
May 13, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing children to stay home and learn remotely. But in the depths of Kenya's slums, 12-year-old ballet student Eugene Ochieng faces huge obstacles to remote learning:...
May 13, 2020
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that psychological suffering will outlast the coronavirus crisis. "Even when the pandemic is brought under control, grief, anxiety and depression will continue...
May 13, 2020
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that psychological suffering will outlast the coronavirus crisis. "Even when the pandemic is brought under control, grief, anxiety and depression will continue...
May 13, 2020
The coronavirus may have triggered a 30-fold jump in cases of a serious but rare pediatric inflammatory disease, according to an Italian study that provides an ominous warning to other...
May 13, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is one of the world's most powerful leftists – a longtime champion of the poor who delivers scathing indictments of neoliberalism and the global...
May 13, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is one of the world's most powerful leftists – a longtime champion of the poor who delivers scathing indictments of neoliberalism and the global...
May 13, 2020
The first of Yuli Irma's children to fall ill with a fever was her 6-year-old girl. The next day it was her 13-year-old daughter, followed by her 12-year-old son. Living...
May 13, 2020
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo met Wednesday with top Israeli officials here to lend U.S. support to a fledgling new coalition government and strategize over a range of mutual...
May 13, 2020
At least 48 people died in Mexico during the past four days after drinking adulterated alcohol, according to figures given by regional authorities. Six of the victims died in Ajijic...
May 13, 2020
Red lanterns swung in the wind above beeping thermometers. A line jerked forward every few minutes, moving like toy soldiers through a socially distanced assembly line. Medical staff in goggles...
May 13, 2020
Hong Kong police turned out in force Wednesday to break up a series of "sing with you" protests organized by protesters determined to support independence for the city while taunting...
May 13, 2020
Hong Kong police turned out in force Wednesday to break up a series of "sing with you" protests organized by protesters determined to support independence for the city while taunting...
May 13, 2020
For the first time in weeks, Dr. Mónica Rodríguez has found some respite. But even as she enjoys card games and magic tricks at her ambulance team's base in Madrid,...
May 13, 2020
Italy's virus reopening was supposed to be accompanied by a series of measures to limit infections in the one-time epicenter of Europe's pandemic: the distribution of millions of inexpensive surgical...
May 13, 2020
U.S. Immigration authorities have cut populations at three South Florida detention centers in compliance with a federal judge's order amid the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, U.S. District Judge Marcia G....
May 13, 2020
U.S. Immigration authorities have cut populations at three South Florida detention centers in compliance with a federal judge's order amid the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, U.S. District Judge Marcia G....
May 13, 2020
With no evidence, Cuba links a church, activists and Miami politicians to attack against its embassy
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez demanded on Tuesday that the United States investigate what he said are links between a man accused of attacking the Cuban embassy in Washington and...
May 12, 2020
After weeks of delayed efforts to repatriate crew members to their home countries amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, cruise companies are embarking on a Caribbean-wide tour to drop off stranded...
May 12, 2020
The coronavirus has claimed the life of a British railway worker allegedly spat on by a man earlier this year. Now, Belly Mujinga's family is demanding justice and raising poignant...
May 12, 2020
The stars of Cannes Film Festival have stayed home, its prestigious grounds repurposed as a homeless shelter, and the beaches closed. The French Riviera resort of Cannes would normally be...
May 12, 2020
More than 30 years after American mathematician Scott Johnson died after falling off a cliff in Sydney, a man has been charged with his death in an apparent gay hate...
May 12, 2020
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he is hospitalized with the coronavirus. Peskov, a key aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday, “Yes, I've gotten...
May 12, 2020
Militants stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of Kabul on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long shootout with the police and killing 14 people, including two newborn babies, their...
May 12, 2020
As South Korea grapples with a new spike in coronavirus infections thought to be linked to nightspots in Seoul, including several popular with gay men, it's also seeing rising homophobia...
May 12, 2020
It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. Born and raised in Brazil's drought-ridden northeast, she moved with her partner to Rio de Janeiro in 2018, in search of...
May 12, 2020
At least 37 people including newborn babies were killed and 85 others wounded on Tuesday in two separate attacks on a public hospital and funeral ceremony in war-hit Afghanistan. Armed...
May 12, 2020
With Russia overtaking Spain to record the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman became the latest top official to fall ill with the deadly disease. Dmitry...
May 12, 2020
Russian ventilators that may have caused two deadly fires in the last week were the same model that President Vladimir Putin sent the U.S. to help in its battle against...
May 12, 2020
The crew of the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship Greg Mortimer disembarked in Montevideo on Tuesday after being moored off Uruguay for more than a month, the country's foreign minister, Ernesto Talvi,...
May 12, 2020
The city had begun breathing easy, life once more pulsating in its streets. Museums and art galleries reopened, gyms welcomed back regulars, baseball and soccer leagues kicked off. Traffic choked...
May 12, 2020
They are regarded as heroes, their fallen colleagues as martyrs. But for doctors and nurses still dealing with Iran's growing number of coronavirus infections, such praise rings hollow. While crippling...
May 12, 2020
Roger Ordoñez was hospitalized with breathing problems last week. When his son Enrique came to visit the next morning, the 69-year-old retiree was already being buried by government workers in...
May 12, 2020
Genaro Alberto Mendoza, a former Central American softball star in the 1970's and ‘80s, was taken to the hospital last week with a sore throat in the Nicaraguan city of...
May 11, 2020
Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidó accepted on Monday the resignation of political adviser Juan José Rendón, who was involved in the hiring of the former U.S. Green Beret who orchestrated...
May 11, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said Monday that two U.S.-based political advisers have resigned in the fallout from a failed incursion into the Caribbean nation led by a former-Green Beret...
May 11, 2020
U.S. immigration authorities did not deport five detainees back to Haiti on Monday who had tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 respiratory disease, Haitian officials have been told. The Immigration...
May 11, 2020
Before the coronavirus, sudden life-threatening ailments among tourists, fishermen and others on the Galapagos Islands were considered so rare that hospitals didn't have a single intensive care unit bed. Now,...
May 11, 2020
Climate scientists have previously warned that a lethal combination of heat and humidity will make currently inhabited parts of the planet uninhabitable for months at a time in the decades...
