Israel's safari zoo welcomed a newborn baboon and a baby elephant during its closure to visitors in the wake of COVID-19.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a complete lockdown over the upcoming Passover holiday to control the country’s coronavirus outbreak

His admission to hospital came ten days after he tested positive.

As Colombia continues with a nationwide lockdown, some Venezuelan migrants are deciding they are better off back in their homeland

Argentina says it is postponing payment on dollar-denominated bonds until next year in order to prioritize spending the coronavirus pandemic crisis

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care unit of hospital after coronavirus symptoms worsen

Austria and the Czech Republic are moving to relax some of their restrictions for curbing coronavirus infections

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Kenya increased its restrictions to combat the coronavirus, announcing travel bans into and out of the capital city, Nairobi, the port of Mombasa and two counties

The teachers still complied with social distancing rules, implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19.

More than one billion Indian residents were instructed not to leave their homes for 21 days.

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The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jewish victims of the Nazis says it is making millions of extra dollars available for elderly Holocaust survivors who are particularly vulnerable to the new coronavirus

Leo Varadkar was a general practitioner in Dublin before entering politics.

Nothing in the way Enrico Giacomoni lived during his 80-plus years in Rome corresponds with the way he died, which was alone

"If I stay at home, I will die of starvation," one street seller said.

A Slovakian court has sentenced a former soldier to 23 years in prison for the alleged contract killings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee, a case that triggered a political crisis and brought down the country’s government

Emergency teams in Ukraine are battling a forest fire in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that has raised radiation fears

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that he will declare a state of emergency for Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday to bolster measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak, but that there will be no hard lockdowns

Iraq's military says at least three rockets struck near the site of an American oil field service company in southern Iraq, causing no casualties

Australia’s highest court on Tuesday will judge Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against convictions for molesting two teenage choirboys more than two decades ago

Some 50 migrants have forced their way into a Spanish enclave in northern Africa as part of a larger group that launched what authorities in Melilla called a “massive and violent entry” into the city

Japan's prime minister says he will announce a state of emergency for Tokyo and 6 other prefectures as early as Tuesday

Emergency teams in Ukraine are battling a forest fire in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that has raised radiation fears

Some 200,000 Afghans and counting have returned from Iran to their home country after losing their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic or out of fear of getting infected

Dubai’s state-backed developer Emaar says it sold an 80% share of its district cooling project around the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, for $675 million

The commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet visited the leadership of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam, where the aircraft carrier is being cleaned after an outbreak of COVID-19 among its crew

The Taliban say their peace deal with the United States was nearing a breaking point

A Canadian premier of a province that sheltered thousands of stranded American airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks is questioning the humanity of U.S. President Donald Trump after Trump banned the export of N95 protective masks to Canada

The ACLU says it it is seeking an injunction to block part of Puerto Rico’s strict curfew against the new coronavirus, arguing that some of its restrictions are unconstitutional

The queen's son, Prince Charles, tested positive last week.

Officials in South Sudan say the country has its first case of COVID-19, making it the 51st of Africa’s 54 countries to report the disease

This year's traditional Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem has been cancelled due to restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus

French authorities say a third person has been detained in a anti-terrorism investigation over a knife attack south of Lyon that left two people dead

A valley dam that authorities in Rwanda say could contain about 30,000 bodies has been discovered more than a quarter-century after the country’s genocide in which 800,000 people were killed

Lebanese security officials say unknown gunmen fatally shot and stabbed a member of the militant Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon

Malaysian authorities have arrested a boatload of 202 people believed to be minority Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar after their boat was found adrift Sunday near the northern resort island of Langkawi

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

The Indian army says nine rebels and three army soldiers have been killed during two gunbattles in disputed Kashmir

The global economic crisis linked to the coronavirus could wipe out jobs for millions across the African continent, many who live hand-to-mouth with zero savings

The wife of a well-known Chinese rights lawyer says he has been released from prison

Rival Mexican drug gangs had a big shootout in the border state of Chihuahua.

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 to March. The new coronavirus pandemic has changed all that. Peru's President Martín Vizcarra declared a state of emergency as deaths began to mount and ordered people to stay home, largely emptying the beach of people. The half-mile-long (kilometer-long) strip of grayish-brown sand 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of central Lima is normally a haven for the working classes, a place where visitors from the Andean highlands first dip a toe in the sea. But in recent days, an army of seabirds has claimed the sandy territory abandoned by people. Densely thronged pedestrian bridges are all but empty. Instead of chaotic human footprints, the beach is tattooed with the tracks of gulls and pelicans. Police officers who recently monitored the beach for unlicensed vendors catering to the crowds now walk along the empty beach to...

Even as Ecuador's coronavirus “patient zero” agonized in intensive care, strangers began tearing her reputation apart online

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government won’t bring retaliatory or punitive measures after the Trump administration announced it would prevent the export of N95 protective masks

The suspected mismanagement of essential supplies during Hurricane Maria has turned out to be a boon for Puerto Rico as it fights a rise in coronavirus cases

French authorities have opened a terrorism inquiry after a man wielding a knife killed two people and wounded five others as residents of a town south of Lyon shopped for food amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown

Brazilian health officials grappling with the coronavirus outbreak have issued a stark warning about a lack of hospital beds, masks, testing devices and trained staff across Latin America’s largest nation

Even as Ecuador's coronavirus “patient zero” agonized in intensive care, strangers began tearing her reputation apart online

Egyptian officials say at least 17 medics in the country’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health facilities in the Arab world’s most populous country