The coronavrius global pandemic continues to intensify in Latin America and the Caribbean, where countries are now telling citizens not to leave homes without masks — if they must go...
April 7, 2020
A Haitian national who had been exposed to COVID-19 respiratory disease while in federal immigration custody was not among a group of detainees deported back to Haiti by the U.S....
April 7, 2020
As scientists around the world speed up clinical trials to find a cure or vaccine for the coronavirus, the Cuban government will begin distributing a homeopathic remedy to the elderly...
April 7, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly accelerating in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the number of new cases and virus-related deaths are rising., the director of the World Health Organization's...
April 7, 2020
A German court on Tuesday proposed ending a criminal trial resulting from a fatal mass panic at the 2010 Love Parade techno music festival, citing questions over when the proceedings...
April 7, 2020
Decked out in full firefighting gear, Elielson Silva stands 150 feet above the ground atop a retractable ladder poking up from a red fire truck. His lofty perch is about...
April 7, 2020
The measure of a nation — its DNA, or sometimes its political system — becomes more visible when its leader is stricken in office. How to respond, and what to...
April 7, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in stable condition Tuesday in a hospital intensive care unit with the coronavirus, and while he is not on a ventilator, he is receiving...
April 7, 2020
A 40-year-old man who died of COVID-19 has become Puerto Rico's youngest victim of the global pandemic, as total cases continue to creep up on the island despite a sweeping...
April 7, 2020
Cardinal George Pell welcomed Australia's highest court clearing him of child sex crimes Tuesday and said his trial had not been a referendum on the Catholic Church's handling of the...
April 7, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spent the night in the intensive care unit of a London hospital with the new coronavirus, but is not on a ventilator, a senior...
April 7, 2020
Spain reported an increase in daily coronavirus deaths and new cases, suggesting the government has yet to bring the disease under control. There were 5,478 new infections in the 24...
April 7, 2020
El Salvador recently celebrated a historic feat: For two days in a row last month, the country recorded not a single homicide. In a nation that for years led the...
April 7, 2020
Back in December, when Britain was in the midst of an angry, divisive general election campaign, Amy Woodrow Arai went door to door in her southeast London neighborhood, desperate to...
April 7, 2020
Ecuador's former president, Rafael Correa, was tried in absentia and sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday after a court found that he and former Vice President Jorge Glas were...
April 7, 2020
The new coronavirus is tearing through the leading centers of ultra-Orthodox Jewish life, despite the 6,000 miles between them. Ultra-Orthodox communities have become virus flashpoints in both New York and...
April 7, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in stable condition in intensive care and has received oxygen, but he does not have pneumonia, Downing Street said on Tuesday. "The prime minister...
April 7, 2020
Mohammed al-Dulfi's 67-year-old father died on March 21 after a brief struggle against the new coronavirus, but it would take nine days for his body to find a final resting...
April 7, 2020
Some U.S. lawmakers and immigration advocates are expressing outrage at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's decision to continue deportations to Haiti in the midst of the accelerating COVID-19 global pandemic,...
April 7, 2020
Australia's highest court has dismissed the convictions of the most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse. The High Court Chief Justice Susan Kiefel announced the decision of the...
April 6, 2020
The sister organization of Boston-based Partners In Health in Haiti says it will begin using rapid tests to screen for the coronavirus in the Caribbean nation in hopes of being...
April 6, 2020
For years, Catholic-led, U-S.-based nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to support migrants and asylum seekers along the Mexican border. Tough new border policies, coupled with the COVID-19...
April 6, 2020
Puerto Rico is trying to claw back a $19 million deposit it paid for 1 million COVID-19 tests that it now says were never approved by the Food and Drug...
April 6, 2020
Barbados is the latest country to accuse the United States of blocking it from acquiring critical medical equipment to fight COVID19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. In a...
April 6, 2020
South Africa, one of the world's most unequal countries with a large population vulnerable to the new coronavirus, may have an advantage in the outbreak, honed during years battling HIV...
April 6, 2020
As cases of the coronavirus were rising steadily in India, 76-year-old Ravindra Nath Singh arrived at a private hospital in the northern city of Lucknow complaining of breathing trouble. Already...
April 6, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "in good spirits" on Monday, following his hospital admission after failing to shake off symptoms of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus....
April 6, 2020
If Boris Johnson dies or is incapacitated, who steps in? In the short term at least, that would be his foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, who was deputized by the British...
April 6, 2020
Cardinal George Pell, who is serving a six-year jail sentence for child sex abuse, has been successful in his bid to overturn his conviction in the Australian High Court. Pell,...
April 6, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, infected by the coronavirus, was moved Monday to intensive care at a London hospital, a dramatic development illustrating his country's escalating battle with the outbreak....
April 6, 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he will propose declaring a month-long state of emergency in seven prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka, after a renewed surge of coronavirus cases in...
April 6, 2020
Spain reported the lowest number of new coronavirus cases in more than two weeks, a sign that Europe's biggest outbreak is slowing. New infections were 4,273, taking the total to...
April 6, 2020
Nursing homes and assisted-living centers across California continued to see significant increases in coronavirus cases, alarming officials who are trying to slow the spread. The older populations of these facilities...
April 6, 2020
Mahdi Noori, a young Afghan refugee in Iran, was left jobless when the factory where he'd worked cutting stone was shut down because of the coronavirus outbreak. He had no...
April 6, 2020
The last time Roberto Giacomoni saw his 80-year-old father Enrico, he gently helped him up from bed, put his socks, shoes and jacket on, and walked him out to the...
April 6, 2020
Pushing a shopping cart with two children, César Alegre emerges from the large, deteriorated house near Peru's presidential palace that is shared by 45 families to search for food. Sometimes...
April 5, 2020
Shirley Douglas, the impassioned Canadian activist and veteran actress who was mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of Canada medicare founder Tommy Douglas, died Sunday. She was 86. Sutherland...
April 5, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to a hospital with the coronavirus. Johnson's office says he is being admitted for tests because he still has symptoms 10 days...
April 5, 2020
Pope Francis is celebrating Palm Sunday Mass without the public, since the traditional ceremony in St. Peter's Square was scrapped because of the coronavirus pandemic. Normally, tens of thousands of...
April 5, 2020
U.K. coronavirus virus deaths declined even as the government warned it may consider tightening national lockdown measures. The U.K. reported 621 new coronavirus deaths, down from 708 on Saturday, and...
