Poland’s government has demanded that Russia return the wreckage of the plane that crashed in 2010, killing Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others

Chad says its soldiers have killed some 1,000 jihadists in an operation on the islands of Lake Chad that targeted Boko Haram fighters

Pakistan has asked neighbor Afghanistan to extradite a leader of the local Islamic State affiliate, who was arrested in an Afghan intelligence operation earlier this month

The circle of contagion around the Rev. Angelo Riva couldn’t have been tighter as the new coronavirus invaded northern Italy

Renault says it is cancelling 300 million euros ($325 million) worth of dividend payments for 2019 and its chairman is taking a pay cut, as the French automaker tries to weather the coronavirus crisis

Weeks before the coronavirus spread through the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some had seen in 70 years

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have endorsed the setting up of a regional fund to respond to the coronavirus pandemic

Pakistani intelligence officials say a roadside bomb has killed two paramilitary soldiers in restive southwestern Baluchistan province when they they were clearing the area for fencing the border with Afghanistan

Mosques usually filled for Friday prayers and streets normally clogged with cars and motorcycles were empty as stricter coronavirus measures were enforced in Indonesia’s capital

Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students

OPEC says a proposed cut to oil production 'is conditional on the consent of Mexico' after marathon teleconference

Yemen’s internationally recognized government has announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the war-torn country, stoking fears that an outbreak could devastate an already crippled health care system

Yemen’s internationally recognized government announces first confirmed case of coronavirus in the war-torn country.

Christians are commemorating Jesus’ crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years, marking Good Friday in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic

Saudi state TV says OPEC+ deal is 10 million barrels per day cut to July 1; 8 million per day cut through end of year

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Residents of Wuhan are cautiously returning to shopping and strolling in the streets of the city where the coronavirus pandemic began

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The U.N. migration agency says the Libyan coast guard rescued 280 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea and diverted them to the shores of the North African country where intense bombardment prevented them from disembarking

European finance ministers have agreed on more than a half-trillion euros, or $550 billion, of support programs to cushion the recession caused by the virus outbreak

The Adelaide Zoo had been closed to the public since the end of March due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Passover curfew ended in the morning, but the country remained on lockdown as the coronavirus death toll increased.

South Africa's president has extended the country’s strict lockdown to combat the coronavirus until the end of April

Pope Francis has described priests and medical personnel who tend to the needs of COVID-19 patients as “the saints next door.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care where he was being treated for the new coronavirus, as his government told Britons to prepare for several more weeks in lockdown

In celebration of World Health Day, the band also dedicated their performance to health care workers fighting against COVID-19.

Iran’s supreme leader is suggesting that mass gatherings in the Islamic Republic may be barred through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic

A cease-fire proposed by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has gone into effect, potentially paving the way for peace talks to end the more than 5-year-old conflict

African officials are objecting to the global jostling to obtain medical equipment to combat the coronavirus

He will continue to be closely monitored in the hospital.

Japan reported more than 500 new positive cases for the first time Thursday.

Pope Francis has described priests and medical personnel who tend to the needs of COVID-10 patients as “the saints next door.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care as condition improves

Two planeloads of Eastern European farm workers have arrived in Germany amid strict precautions to protect the seasonal laborers and the country from the new coronavirus

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians will need to stay at home and practice physical distancing for months as the first wave of COVID-19 cases in the country won’t end until the summer

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Syria has denounced as misleading the first report from the global chemical weapons watchdog blaming its air force for a series of attacks using sarin and chlorine on a rebel-held town in 2017

Seventeen temporary hospitals are being planned or constructed with help from the military.

Residents who were under more than two months of lockdown in Wuhan, China, lined up at the city's Hankou Railway Station as travel restrictions were lifted.

Hamas-run security forces have arrested several peace activists in the Gaza Strip on treason charges after they took part in a web conference with Israeli activists

Iraq’s intelligence chief has been appointed the country’s third prime minister-designate in just over a month

A heavily armed squad of men has stolen an unspecified number of gold-silver alloy bars from a desert mine in northern Mexico, escaping into the remote mountains in a small plane

A report by aid group Oxfam says that around half a billion people could be pushed into poverty as a result of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic unless richer countries help them

A fire in a retirement home in Moscow has killed four people and injured 16 others but emergency officials say firefighters managed to rescue 50 people from the burning building

Australian police wearing protective gear have boarded a cruise ship to seize evidence and question crew members after the vessel was linked to hundreds of COVID-19 cases and more than a dozen deaths

Iran’s supreme leader suggests mass gatherings may be barred through the holy Muslim fasting month Ramadan amid pandemic

The typically frenetic streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, have fallen silent and empty due to the new coronavirus outbreak that’s gripped the Islamic Republic

Pakistan’s military says it has shot down an Indian spy drone after it violated the country’s airspace in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir

Some people couldn't wait to leave town. Others just wanted to get outside and feel free again. All of them wore face masks against the virus that had forced them to stay in their homes for more than two months. Chinese authorities ended the lockdown of Wuhan on Wednesday, allowing people to move about and leave the city for the first time in 76 days. Thousands boarded trains, planes and long-distance buses, finally able to return to their homes and jobs. Many had come to visit relatives during the Lunar New Year holiday in late January and were trapped when the coronavirus lockdown was announced with no advance warning. The outbreak started in Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million people on the Yangtze River. Authorities cut off and shut down the city in a desperate bid to stop the disease from spreading. It still killed more than 2,500 people in Wuhan, by far the highest death toll in China, and grew into a pandemic. Once the lockdown was lifted, drivers took to the roads...