Foreign Affairs

France reported the lowest daily coronavirus deaths in five days in a sign that three weeks of confinement are starting to contain the outbreak. The country had 518 fatalities on...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, diagnosed recently with coronavirus infection, has been admitted to the hospital "for tests," a statement from his office said Sunday. "On the advice of his...

Queen Elizabeth II urged Britons to adopt the same discipline and resolve that the U.K. showed during World War II as she sought to comfort the public during the fight...

It was always rush hour at Barbar. The restaurant sprawls over several buildings in Beirut's Hamra district, where you could glimpse white-clad workers at all hours slicing shawarma meat, frying...

Italy reported the lowest single-day coronavirus deaths in 2 1/2 weeks, even as the northern Lombardy region around Milan announced tougher containment measures for the weeks ahead. Fatalities fell on...

The high-speed train whooshing past historic World War I battle sites and through the chateau-speckled Loire Valley carried a delicate cargo: 20 critically ill COVID-19 patients and the breathing machines...

Agua Dulce beach is usually a sea of humanity, packed with as many as 40,000 people a day at the height of Peru's Southern Hemisphere summer, which runs from December...

No one should have known Bella Lamilla's name. But within hours of her diagnosis as Ecuador's first coronavirus case, it was circulating on social media along with photos showing the...

Amid the coronavirus lockdown in France, charity workers are preparing more than a thousand meals a day for migrants and the homeless on the half-abandoned grounds of a former Paris...

With air raid sirens wailing and flags at half-staff, China held a three-minute nationwide moment of reflection on Saturday to honor those who have died in the coronavirus outbreak, especially...

When President Donald Trump weighed the options earlier last year to address the political and humanitarian consequences of Nicolás Maduro's tight grip on power in Venezuela, he realized his harsh...

The fragility of Haiti's healthcare system in the face of the coronavirus came into focus this week when the French Hospital of Haiti announced that, after more than 100 years...

Before New Zealand began its four-week lockdown to fight the coronavirus, a reporter asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern what would happen if an earthquake struck while everybody was sequestered in...

The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their...

At least 17 medics in Egypt's main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, officials said Saturday, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health facilities...

The Pakistani foreign minister said on Saturday that the government will file an appeal against a court decision acquitting the man accused of the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal...

Isolation measures such as self-quarantines and stay-at-home-orders will likely lead to an increase in domestic violence, according to the World Health Organization. Speaking to reporters Friday, WHO Director General Dr....

Spain's COVID-19 cases have surpassed Italy as Europe's two main epicenters continue to grapple with curtailing the virus. A slower pace of fatalities and new cases though is offering hope...

JOHANNESBURG – The French Embassy in South Africa on Saturday expressed dismay at comments made by French doctors during a television interview in which they discussed testing a coronavirus vaccine...

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he will speak to Donald Trump in the coming days as the U.S. president escalates a battle with allies and 3M Co. over exports...

If the country is to be believed, North Korea is one of maybe a dozen nations not yet invaded by a deadly virus that has spread across the globe from...

European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has brought millions of protective face masks to Europe from China as part of its so-called air-bridge mission during the new coronavirus pandemic, the company announced...

The Cuban government released dissident José Daniel Ferrer from prison Friday, but sentenced him to house arrest for four-and-a-half years under charges labeled as political by several human rights organizations....

For more than a month, Wu Di did not know his father was dead. Before a virus outbreak devastated Wuhan, 68-year-old Wu Chuanyong, who had worked as part of a...

There's a bookshelf filled with donated novels. Hotel toiletries rest on cardboard boxes turned into bedside tables. Meals are served with personalized notes from the staff. And an army of...

For two years the Trump administration has been trying to stamp out one of Cuba's signature programs __ state-employed medical workers treating patients around the globe in a show of...

With hand sanitizers now hard, if not impossible, to find even on Caribbean store shelves, rum and gin companies across the region are trying to do their part to curb...

A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died on the 288th day of a hunger strike protesting the government's treatment of the band,...

Prince Charles on Friday remotely opened the new Nightingale Hospital at London's main exhibition and conference center, a temporary facility that will soon be able to treat 4,000 people who...

Deserted squares, padlocked parks, empty avenues where lines of cars once idled bumper-to-bumper in traffic as motorbikes and scooters zoomed through the narrow gaps between. The Greek capital, Athens, like...

The tension is palpable. There is no non-essential talking. An orchestra of medical monitors marks the tempo with an endless series of soft, distinct beeps. Never have so many people...

With governments worldwide increasing health measures to keep the spread of the deadly coronavirus at bay, one might think there would be virtually no time for waging war. But it...

Roughly 300 people gathered outside a mosque in the German capital Berlin despite a ban on public gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic, police said late Friday. They were apparently responding...

Venezuelan families made destitute by Colombia's coronavirus lockdown are walking a thousand miles or more across the Andes to get home. Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela might be undergoing one of the...

They speak to him like they know him, calling him brother, uncle, doctor, hero, comrade, martyr, friend. "Doctor Li, I had a dream that I saw my grandfather just now,"...

Aid workers are bracing for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in one of the world's largest refugee camps in Bangladesh, with officials warning that containing the disease among more...

Circus Renz Berlin's fleet of blue, red and yellow trucks have had a fresh lick of paint over the winter. But now, as coronavirus measures shut down the entertainment industry...

Dr. Nishant Joshi is on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic — and he's angry. The emergency medicine specialist says he risks his life every time he walks into...

Early this week, the streets of the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak were bustling with shoppers as ultra-Orthodox residents, obeying their religious leaders, ignored pleas to stay home in...

Guayaquil is reeling from the coronavirus as hospitals fill up and the dead accumulate in morgues and family homes. Relatives of some of the deceased say they've been waiting up...