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...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has announced that its forces will begin a cease-fire starting Thursday

Lack of resources and stigma from the virus has left many families struggling to bury the dead.

A Mexican government body is calling on authorities to investigate nightclubs that are advertising home delivery of table dances and other services amid the crackdown on large public gatherings and nonessential services during the coronavirus pandemic

Mexico's Labor Department says the country has lost 346,748 jobs since mid-March due to the economic impact of coronavirus and distancing measures imposed to fights its spread

More than half of the Thai Muslims returning home from a mass religious gathering in Indonesia were infected with the coronavirus

Other samba schools in Rio de Janeiro are expected to join the effort.

A mariachi band performed in front of a Mexico City hospital to pay tribute to medical personnel battling COVID-19.

The Guatemalan government says it will resume receiving deportation flights from the United States next week

With coronavirus prevention measures shuttering houses of worship, pastors across the country are using that ultimate tool of social distancing — cars — to safely bring their communities closer together

Emergency officials say two people have died in a fire at a Moscow home for the elderly and at least 10 have been injured

Burying the dead from the coronavirus is proving to be an agonizing odyssey in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, a sweltering metropolis of 2.6 million people and one of Latin America's most infected population centers

The U.K. doesn't have a clear emergency succession plan for prime ministers.

Saudi officials announce Yemen cease-fire starting Thursday in response to U.N. calls to halt hostilities amid pandemic

The Saudi king has ordered the suspension of rulings and judicial orders regarding visitation rights of children of separated parents

European plane maker Airbus says it is reducing production by about a third as demand for aircraft and travel plummets due to the coronavirus pandemic

Russia’s defense minister called on law enforcement officials to consider filing criminal charges against representatives of other countries where World War II memorials commemorating the actions of the Soviet Union are demolished

Inspectors were sent to the bridge last year to investigate a crack, but the section was cleared for further use, according to an Italian news agency.

More than 1,700 people were evacuated to 69 centers across Fiji and emergency teams cleared blocked roads after the cyclone.

The Mexican government says at least 108 Mexicans have died of complications related to COVID-19 in the United States, more than half of those in New York

The act was a tribute to residents, thanking them for staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

The global chemical weapons watchdog has issued a report blaming Syria's air force for a series of chemical attacks in March 2017 on the central town of Latamneh

Kosovo’s acting prime minister has assured a European Union special envoy of his commitment to resume dialogue with neighboring Serbia on normalizing ties

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Boris Johnson's spokesman says the British prime minister is “responding to treatment” but remains in intensive care with the new coronavirus

A truck driver accused in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found inside a refrigerated container in England has pleaded guilty to manslaughter

Supermoons occur several times a year when the moon becomes closest to Earth in orbit.

Israeli Jews have been forced to scale back or cancel beloved traditions and rituals marking the start of Passover, the holiday celebrating the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian bondage

More than 200 European intellectuals, artists and politicians have signed an open letter to European Union leaders urging them to take swift action to ease the economic pain of the pandemic crisis

A huge bridge section has collapsed in Tuscany, the latest case of Italy’s infrastructure crumbling after years of neglect

A truck driver has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese found inside a container in England

France’s defense ministry says the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is heading back to port amid a possible on-board outbreak of the new coronavirus

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The Vatican says Pope Francis has created a new commission of experts to examine whether women can be deacons, an ordained role in the Catholic Church currently reserved for men

Europe's top court has ordered Poland's government to immediately suspend a new body set up to discipline judges, saying that the chamber did not guarantee impartiality

French counter-terrorism prosecutors have opened a judicial investigation after a knife attack south of Lyon left two people dead on Saturday

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European governments are struggling to agree on how to help the region's hardest-hit countries weather the coronavirus recession

The Philippines has expressed solidarity with Vietnam after Hanoi protested what it says was the ramming and sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese coast guard ship in the disputed South China Sea

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Germany’s Cabinet has approved legislation that will make it easier for authorities to prevent foreign takeovers of strategically important companies

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Boris Johnson is in stable condition at a London hospital’s ICU unit due to coronavirus infection.