Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America's largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world's pandemic hot spots. Medical...
April 25, 2020
Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America's largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world's pandemic hot spots. Medical...
April 24, 2020
Hundreds of Cuban Americans who were stranded in Cuba after Havana shut down its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic returned to Miami on Friday on two charter flights secured...
April 24, 2020
A video published by the Cuban Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday provided several examples of Cubans sentenced in quick trials to one-year prison, correctional work, or steep fines under...
April 24, 2020
If you don't wear a mask in Publix, it could earn you some dirty looks and you might be asked to leave. In Cuba, it can mean a stiff jail...
April 24, 2020
World leaders rallied around the United Nations on Friday for an initiative to help the most vulnerable countries gain access to vaccines, diagnostics and treatment tools for the coronavirus as...
April 24, 2020
U.S. immigration officials say they plan to begin testing some foreign nationals for the coronavirus before deporting them from the United States. ICE said it will acquire approximately 2,000 tests...
April 24, 2020
It will be only an hour. It will probably feel like a lot longer. On Sunday, for the first time in nearly six weeks, my 12-year-old triplets will step out...
April 24, 2020
Muslims worldwide began Ramadan on Friday with dawn-to-dusk fasting, but many will have to forgo the communal prayers and family gatherings that make the holy month special, as authorities maintain...
April 24, 2020
Mannequins in store windows display yesterday's fashion, empty store shelves gather dust, cardboard and sheets cover products that until recently were considered necessary for our well-being. Spain's strict lockdown amid...
April 24, 2020
The president's herbal remedy didn't work, and the cost is heavy across Indonesia: Medical workers wear raincoats and garbage bags to guard against a killer disease. Gravediggers struggle to keep...
April 24, 2020
The World Health Organization joined with global leaders Friday to speed up the development and production of vaccines and therapeutics that can stamp out the coronavirus pandemic, and to insure...
April 24, 2020
MOSCOW – A Russian spacecraft has begun its journey toward the International Space Station, or ISS, to deliver 3 tons of food, fuel and other supplies, U.S. space agency NASA...
April 24, 2020
Germany's sick beds continued to empty, and France and Italy showed progress in slowing the coronavirus spread in a welcome sign for European leaders ahead of further steps to ease...
April 24, 2020
Sweden says it may adopt a tougher approach in enforcing social distancing guidelines after throngs of people headed for parks, bars and restaurants to make the most of the warm...
April 24, 2020
From Asia to Africa, London to Berlin, Chinese envoys have set off diplomatic firestorms with a combative defense whenever their country is accused of not acting quickly enough to stem...
April 24, 2020
Lucy Dawson is haunted by a sense of powerlessness. The nurse has equipment to treat the residents of the nursing home where she works when they become sick with the...
April 24, 2020
Canada's worst mass shooting erupted from an argument between the gunman and his girlfriend, who survived the attack, a police official said. The official confirmed to The Associated Press late...
April 24, 2020
Canada's worst mass shooting started as a domestic dispute between the gunman and his girlfriend, who survived the attack, a police official said late Thursday. The official confirmed to The...
April 23, 2020
U.S. immigration officials, facing criticism from countries receiving deportees who then test positive for the coronavirus, may consider testing foreign nationals before they're deported. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials...
April 23, 2020
Americans stranded in Cuba after the government shut down air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic will be able to return to Miami on Friday, the U.S. embassy in Havana...
April 23, 2020
Last autumn, when schools were in session, sports stadiums full and no one had even heard of the COVID-19 disease, the Missouri health department made an eerily foreshadowing request. It...
April 23, 2020
Nurse Jenny from New Zealand says that helping save somebody as notable as Boris Johnson in his battle with the coronavirus didn't faze her thanks to her years of dealing...
April 23, 2020
Offering a rare and surprising bright spot in the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam began easing its nationwide lockdown Thursday following an aggressive containment campaign that has meant few infections and no...
April 23, 2020
EU leaders tasked the European Commission with drawing up a recovery plan for the looming recession after talks hailed as a step forward on Thursday, though others warned that difficult...
April 23, 2020
Two suspected members of Syrian President Bashar Assad's torture regime were put on trial in Germany on Thursday, in what is being hailed as a world first. One of the...
April 23, 2020
Hundreds of demonstrators looted shops in Venezuela on Thursday as the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the economic crisis. Venezuelan media said the protests were over a shortage of food, which has...
April 23, 2020
The South African government will begin to ease a lockdown that has devastated the country's economy beginning next month and assess the levels of restrictions that need to remain in...
April 23, 2020
As the coronavirus overwhelms hospitals in Baja California, U.S. citizens living south of the border are deciding whether to return to the United States or ride out the pandemic in...
April 23, 2020
Whatever the state of Kim Jong Un's health, he has already put North Korea in its strongest position to resist U.S. pressure in decades. Eight years after Kim filled the...
April 23, 2020
Getting into Wuhan was the easy part. New virus infections had fallen to almost zero and travel restrictions were easing. As a 76-day lockdown neared its end, journalists and others...
April 23, 2020
Authorities in Berlin are setting up temporary bicycle lanes to meet demand for safe cycling on the German capital's streets during the coronavirus pandemic, angering some motorists. The move is...
April 22, 2020
A Palestinian woman from Syria has become the first refugee living in a camp in Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday....
April 22, 2020
Puerto Rico's coroanvirus crisis is generating some good news for the wrong reasons. On Wednesday, the Health Department confirmed that it has just 915 positive cases of the novel virus...
April 22, 2020
All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone. A Dutch crime-busting television show has aired security camera...
April 22, 2020
With North Korea saying nothing so far about outside media reports that leader Kim Jong Un may be unwell, there's renewed worry about who's next in line to run a...
April 22, 2020
China on Wednesday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd." Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the legal...
April 22, 2020
Haitians stranded by the coronavirus in the United States are finding that it's a lot easier to get back home if you're a U.S. deportee than if you're a tourist...
April 22, 2020
Haitians stranded by the coronavirus in the United States are finding that it's a lot easier to get back home if you're a U.S. deportee than if you're a tourist...
April 22, 2020
Spain reported a small increase in the number of new coronavirus cases, though the numbers remain steady as the country readies for at least two more weeks of lockdown. There...
