The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, DC, U.S., April 8, 2019. /VCG Photo African leaders, the IMF and the World Bank on Friday appealed for rapid international act
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Texas and Vermont will allow certain businesses to reopen on Monday while still observing coronavirus-related precautions, and Montana will begin lif
African leaders, the IMF and the World Bank on Friday appealed for rapid international action to help African countries respond to the coronavirus pandemic that will cause the continent's economy
Ventilators assembled by GM and Ventec Life Systems were delivered to hospitals Thursday night with more making their way to facilities today and through the weekend, the first in a 30,000-unit order
Italian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Marina Sereni on Thursday voiced support for the World Health Organization (WHO) and called f
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 5.2 million more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. That brings the total number of Americans out of work to 22 million in the past four
A false conspiracy theory linking 5G masts to the pandemic has been blamed for a recent surge in attacks on mobile masts.
The Bank of Canada. /Reuters Canada's economy shrank a record nine percent in March from February as the coronavirus outbreak forced the shutdown of economic activity during the course of the
More than 1 million coronavirus tests will be rolled out starting next week in Africa to address the “big gap” in assessing the true number of cases on the continent, t
The ruling party of the Republic of Korea (ROK) won a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary election on Wednesday thanks to its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.The 300-seat Nationa
The Capitol and a stop sign are seen in Washington D.C., the United States, February 13, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Hannan Hussain is a security analyst at the London School of Economics, Sou
The international community has regretted U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), voicing support for and highlighting the organization's cru
TOP HEADLINES• French president Emmanuel Macron has called for a moratorium on the debt of African states as "an essential step" to help the continent weather the disease.• Germany's foreign minister
A one-off lockdown won't halt the novel coronavirus and repeated periods of social distancing may be required into 2022 to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, Harvard scientists who modeled
Two additional employees who were publicly critical of Amazon’s warehouse conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic have been fired by the company. UX designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa were both
On Tuesday evening, one imported COVID-19 patient who returned to China through the border city of Suifenhe recovered from the coronavirus. The 21-year-old man, who wants to remain anonymous, is t
New cases of COVID-19 in Australia continued to decline as of Tuesday, as people returned from an unusually subdued Easter holiday weekend. State and federal leaders thanked Australians for most
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