NEW YORK (AP) — The request, posted on an online neighbourhood forum by a Brooklyn funeral director, was simple but heartfelt. A 91-year-old woman had died from the coronavirus. Her family was scattered in other states. Would anyone like to...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China’s warning of trade repercussions from Australia’s campaign for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus has rattled Australian business leaders as President Donald Trump’s administration...
LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex lost an early round in a London court Friday when a judge dismissed part of her lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper that put out excerpts of a letter to her estranged father. Meghan sued...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying “this never happened.” Biden’s...
WASHINGTON (AP): A man armed with an assault rifle was arrested after opening fire outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington early Thursday, his bullets tearing holes into the walls and pillars near the front entrance in what authorities suspect was...
LONDON (AP): BRITAIN IS past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday, as he promised to reveal a “road map” out of national lockdown – but not yet. Appearing at a news conference for the first time since...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): A planeload of 92 Guatemalan deportees were scheduled to arrive yesterday all tested negative for the coronavirus before boarding their flight from Texas, Guatemalan officials said Thursday. The major change in how the US...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday state and local governments are seeking up to $1 trillion for coronavirus costs, a stunning benchmark for the next aid package that’s certain to run into opposition...
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines lost $2.24 billion in the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic triggered a sharp drop in air travel, and the airline is taking steps to survive but as a smaller carrier. American disclosed Thursday that...
NEW YORK (AP) — Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has climbed past a staggering 30 million, while Europe’s economies...
LONDON (AP) — Britain is past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday, as he promised to reveal a “road map” out of national lockdown — but not yet. Appearing at a news conference for...
MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin says he has tested positive for the new coronavirus and has told President Vladimir Putin he will self-isolate. First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov will temporarily perform Mishustin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone opened fire using an assault rifle outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington early Thursday and was arrested, authorities said. The gunfire broke out around 2:00 a.m. outside the embassy in northwest Washington....
NEW YORK (AP) — Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained about the smell, officials...
SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP): A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where she led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): President Jair Bolsonaro yielded on Wednesday to growing criticism around the nomination of a new federal police chief seen as too close to the Brazilian leader’s family, and revoked the appointment. The decision came hours...
LONDON (AP) The United Kingdom (UK) has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the British government published new figures Wednesday that include deaths outside of hospitals. After factoring in deaths in all settings such as...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In cities around the world, public transportation systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies. Yet methods of getting around, ranging from trains and buses to ferries...
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) — A surge in unemployment stemming from the coronavirus shutdown of large parts of the US economy is starting to push some state jobless funds toward insolvency. At least a half-dozen states already have...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the British government published new figures Wednesday that include deaths outside of hospitals. After factoring in deaths in all settings...
Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world. Now it has a captive audience. With much of the globe in various stages of a lockdown because of the coronavirus...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds announced the birth of a son on Wednesday, just two days after Johnson returned to work following hospitalisation for the coronavirus. Johnson’s...
A biotech company says its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major US government study that put it to a strict test. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir would be the first treatment to pass such a test...
ROME (AP): POPE FRANCIS waded into the Church-state debate about virus-imposed lockdowns of religious services, calling Tuesday for “prudence and obedience” to government protocols to prevent infections from surging again. Francis’ appeal came...
The United States has circulated a draft United Nations (UN) resolution that would indefinitely extend a UN arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October, a move almost certain to spark opposition from Russia, which has made no secret of its desire...
