While transmission of the novel coronavirus is still in the early stages in Haiti, global health authorities are worried that the deadly pandemic could unleash civil unrest and an even...
May 5, 2020
Military insurgents who landed in Venezuela over the weekend in an attempt to capture top leaders of the Nicolas Maduro regime pulled back to regroup on Tuesday after an internal...
May 5, 2020
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two U.S. citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South...
May 5, 2020
Four days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, a Cuban government official assured tourists that the Caribbean island was a “safe...
May 5, 2020
At least two countries in the Caribbean are requiring COVID-19 test certificates from stranded nationals before they can return home, while another, Antigua and Barbuda, plans to have tourists undergo...
May 5, 2020
The first thing Daniel Hsu noticed about the room was that there were no sharp edges. The walls were covered with beige rubber, the table wrapped in soft, grey leather....
May 5, 2020
They waited for hours outside Las Americas hospital for word about their loved ones. Then the small group ran out of patience and stormed inside. Upon discovering bodies on gurneys...
May 5, 2020
The next couple of weeks will be crucial in Tijuana's fight against COVID-19 as experts anticipate a sharp increase in the number of cases and deaths in the border city...
May 5, 2020
The United Kingdom's coronavirus death toll soared passed that of Italy, making it the worst hit country in Europe, as a top British official expressed regret over the lack of...
May 5, 2020
Tens of thousands of people defied a lockdown due to the coronavirus and a police crackdown to protest about the assassination of a rights activist who many believe was killed...
May 5, 2020
Guatemalan officials said Monday they would begin routinely accepting U.S. deportation flights again after being promised that every passenger would first have to test negative for the novel coronavirus. The...
May 5, 2020
Thomas Siepert looks across the verdant grain field, glowing in the sun after a spring thunderstorm, as windmills slowly churn in the distance. Wild boar piglets trundle across the road...
May 5, 2020
When someone dies in tightly knit Duruelo de la Sierra, the whole community walks from the church service to the cemetery, accompanying the deceased to their final resting place. In...
May 5, 2020
A bid by separatists funded by the United Arab Emirates to assert control over southern Yemen has reopened a dangerous new front in Yemen's civil war and pushed it closer...
May 5, 2020
The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theater. Once decried by revolutionaries for allowing too much privacy for...
May 5, 2020
Venezuelan authorities detained 13 people, including two US citizens, for taking part in a failed armed incursion to oust President Nicolas Maduro, according to Maduro. He held up passports described...
May 4, 2020
The World Health Organization's emergencies chief said Monday that it has received no evidence from the U.S. government to back up allegations by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State...
May 4, 2020
Military insurgents whom the Nicolas Maduro regime claims were killed or detained on Sunday as they attempted to land on the Venezuelan coast belonged to one of several units trained...
May 4, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Monday denied having anything to do with an ex-Green Beret who claimed responsibility for a deadly beach invasion aimed at arresting socialist leader Nicolás...
May 4, 2020
Dave Greenfield, the keyboard player with British punk band The Stranglers and who penned the music to their biggest hit, Golden Brown, has died after testing positive for coronavirus. He...
May 4, 2020
Polish cultural authorities said Monday that they have decided to put off the 18th edition of the Frederic Chopin international piano competition by a full year due to the coronavirus...
May 4, 2020
Freed from the constraints of life as full-time royals — and enmeshed in a feud with Britain's tabloid press — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to tell their...
May 4, 2020
As the coronavirus scythed through nursing homes, cutting a deadly path, Valerie Martin vowed to herself that the story would be different in the home she runs in France. The...
May 4, 2020
Migrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy. But since the...
May 4, 2020
Stuck at home during Moscow's coronavirus lockdown, Alexandra Novatova opted to use a delivery service — a big decision, because she was ordering more than a pizza or a shipment...
May 4, 2020
The newscast blares from a television set in a Beijing apartment, carrying through an open window and echoing across the compound. The refrain is the same every evening: praise for...
May 4, 2020
Hong Kong's leader said the city will soon relax social distancing measures, as it continues to ease restrictions after largely containing the spread of COVID-19. "The time for some relaxation,...
May 4, 2020
There were signs Monday that the coronavirus pandemic was easing significantly in some parts of Europe but getting worse in India and Russia. Meanwhile, pressure to reopen kept building in...
May 4, 2020
Winter storms isolated the northern village of Hvammstangi from the rest of Iceland. Then spring brought the coronavirus, isolating villagers from each other. Now, as summer approaches, residents hope life...
May 4, 2020
National traumas or major political convulsions have been familiar and bloodied territory in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries for some of the countries currently ravaged by the coronavirus....
May 4, 2020
When financial markets collapsed and the world faced its last great crisis in 2008, major powers worked together to restore the global economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking...
May 3, 2020
Royal Caribbean International cruise line employees who've felt imprisoned on cruise ships during a standoff between the cruise line and the CDC might soon be emancipated, according to a Sunday...
May 3, 2020
With the fate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the line, Israel's Supreme Court began discussions Sunday on the question of whether the embattled leader can form a new government...
May 3, 2020
Idir, an Algerian singer who gave voice to the Berber and Kabyle cultures, has died in Paris. He was 70. Saturday's death of the singer, whose real name was Hamid...
May 3, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered more insight into his hospitalization for coronavirus, telling a British newspaper that he knew doctors were preparing for the worst. The 55-year-old Johnson, who...
May 3, 2020
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery or any other medical procedure, a South Korean official said Sunday, amid speculation about his health that continues to linger...
May 3, 2020
They just wanted to help. But they created a movement. Four women from London's Hackney Wick neighborhood responded to the coronavirus pandemic by organizing volunteers who so far have churned...
May 3, 2020
Shots fired from North Korea hit a South Korean guard post inside the Demilitarized Zone, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, citing the South Korean military's Joint Chiefs of Staff...
May 3, 2020
Israel's high court was set Sunday to begin hearing petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming a government while facing criminal indictments. The proceedings, held by an exceptionally large panel of 11...
May 3, 2020
As Italy gradually emerges from its two-month coronavirus lockdown, tourism operators in the hard-hit Val Seriana valley look ahead with trepidation at an uncertain summer season that could make or...
