Foreign Affairs

Very few governments around the world are likely to emerge from the pandemic in an even stronger position than before. Taiwan is one of them – and that's not good...

For drug traffickers interested in getting in on the fentanyl business, all roads once led to Wuhan. The sprawling industrial city built along the Yangtze River in east-central China is...

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and will enter self-isolation, state media reported on Thursday. Mishustin, 54, is to continue to be in contact...

Social distancing doesn't come naturally in Israel. But the country, known for its informal, in-your-face mentality, seems to be setting a new standard for public protests in the age of...

Brazil's virtually uncontrolled surge of COVID-19 cases is spawning fear that construction workers, truck drivers and tourists from Latin America's biggest nation will spread the disease to neighboring countries that...

The coronavirus pandemic could lead to millions of unplanned pregnancies worldwide as stay-at-home orders and lockdowns make it harder for women to access contraception, according to the United Nations. The...

Work had already dried up for Ivanilson Gervásio when the coronavirus first emerged in Brazil in late February. As cases now surge amid a simultaneous implosion of Latin America's largest...

The private hospital in Haiti's capital had done everything to try to keep the coronavirus at bay. It had capped the number of patients at no more than 35 patients...

In cities around the world, public transportation systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies. Yet methods of getting around, ranging from trains and...

The U.K. has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the British government published new figures Wednesday that include deaths outside of hospitals. After factoring in deaths in...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected U.S. arguments for fielding low-yield nuclear warheads, warning that an attempt to use such weapons against Russia would trigger an all-out nuclear retaliation....

Rafiq Maqbool remembers never flinching while covering high-risk news assignments such as the war in Afghanistan, the Sri Lankan tsunami or the conflict in Kashmir, where he grew up and...

I was on assignment April 20 outside Mumbai, India's financial center. My phone rang nonstop. Fellow news photographers checked whether I'd heard about the COVID-19 tests we had taken days...

Inock Mukanhairi shows the small amount of food that he has for himself, his wife, Angeline, and five children — barely enough to make it through another week of South...

Britain confirmed thousands of deaths in care homes from the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, raising its death toll from the virus to 26,097, the second-highest in Europe behind Italy. Health...

Strolling through Berlin's sprawling Tiergarten, window-shopping along stylish Kurfurstendamm boulevard, getting stuck in traffic again: after a winter of vigilance, Germans are venturing out, masked and properly socially distanced, to...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will extend a national state of emergency over the coronavirus by a month, domestic media reports said, even as some nations began to lift restrictions....

When North Korea's Kim Jong Un appeared in state media late last year galloping across a snow-covered Mt. Paekdu atop a white steed, the over-the-top image drew much ridicule and...

U.K. premier Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds announced the birth of a son on Wednesday morning. "The Prime Minister and Ms. Symonds are thrilled to announce the birth...

Men could be more than twice as likely as women to develop severe symptoms and die from coronavirus – though the reason why still remains unknown. A gender study, published...

Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India's most well-known exports to Hollywood, has died. He was 54. Khan died Wednesday after he was admitted...

New rumors about Kim Jong Un pour in daily. The North Korean leader is dead. Or he's very ill. Or maybe he's just recuperating in his luxury compound. As speculation...

Samera al-Huri's fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the same cryptic reply: “She's traveling.” A few of the women re-emerged. But they...

China has decided to hold the annual meeting of its ceremonial parliament late next month after postponing it for weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak. The official Xinhua News Agency...

Every October, on the feast day of the patron saint of physicians, Dr. Roberto Stella would organize a simple ceremony at a tiny church in northern Italy to honor Italian...

Men are more likely to get severe symptoms from coronavirus than women, and therefore are more likely to die from COVID-19, according to researchers in the U.S. and China. An...

A gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia this month obtained a replica police car at an auction and outfitted it with a light bar and decals that made...

Hounded by the coronavirus and a steady stream of political scandals, Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez on Tuesday accused her enemies of trying to “tarnish” the island's reputation on Capitol...

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of many of Latin America's household maids, leaving them without work or government assistance or effectively trapping them inside the homes of their...

They're not asking for your money or your masks. But these German doctors want the world to know about the lack of protective equipment available to medical professionals during the...

Doctors in Britain, Italy, and Spain have been warned to look out for a rare inflammatory condition in children that is possibly linked to the new coronavirus. Earlier this week,...

The most popular leader in Latin America is a slender, casually dressed millennial with an easy manner on Twitter and a harsh approach that critics call increasingly frightening. As his...

Researchers using a battery of modern imaging techniques have gotten under the skin of Johannes Vermeer's “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” but tests haven't answered the key question about the...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that compels slaughterhouses to remain open, setting up a showdown between the giant companies that produce America's meat and the unions and...

Lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic could result in 7 million unintended pregnancies, according to data released on Tuesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Supply chain disruptions could...

At least 46 people were killed in a blast on Tuesday in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkish-backed rebels, a war monitor said. A booby-trapped fuel tanker exploded on...

Prince Harry has recorded a special message to celebrate the 75th anniversary of children's favorite Thomas the Tank Engine. The Duke of Sussex introduces a new program called “Thomas and...

While Kim Jong Un's two-week absence has inspired speculation and rumors that he is gravely ill, he is not the first member of North Korean's ruling elite to disappear from...

A patient who had routine surgery at a hospital in St. Petersburg suddenly developed a fever after an operation. Doctors insisted on testing him for coronavirus and results showed that...

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