The coronavirus has already sent the global economy into a tailspin, with tens of millions of people being put out of work, as factories from Wuhan to Bavaria to Michigan suspend operations. What about food? Are food supplies in danger?
Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed militants has raged on, despite a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus and Western calls for a “global cease-fire” during the pandemic.
Governments and central bankers around the world are taking different approaches against the economic devastation that the coronavirus pandemic is unleashing.
As the coronavirus bore down on Ukraine, the head of the state medical procurement company sought to set up orders of vital supplies. He says he was thwarted by a now-dismissed health minister who seemed more interested in getting a chosen candidate installed as his deputy -- despite a recent conviction for shoplifting Snickers bars, caviar, and other items -- than in obtaining tests, ventilators, and masks for the fight against COVID-19.
When a Pakistani computer specialist thought he was infected with the coronavirus but couldn't reach a hotline for answers, he hacked the system and went into lockdown at his mother's house to take a controversial antimalarial drug.
Journalist Anastasia Petrova died in a hospital in the Russian city of Perm on March 31. The official cause of death was pneumonia, but officials later acknowledged that the 36-year-old had tested positive for the coronavirus. In social-media notes and texts to friends, Petrova left a moving diary of her illness and treatment.
Iran's Health Ministry spokesman has been fiercely criticized by the country's hard-liners for criticizing China's official coronavirus figures, calling them a "bitter joke."
Russian oil giant Rosneft sold its Venezuelan assets to a hastily established Russian state company after being hit by U.S. sanctions. Will that result in the removal of sanctions? And what will Moscow do next?
Afghanistan’s Shi’ite Hazara minority fear that the Taliban’s return as part of a peace deal could undermine the major inroads the community has made.
The coronavirus outbreak in Iran is stealing many of a last farewell with their loved ones as funeral ceremonies have been banned to help contain the pandemic that has killed more than 3,000 Iranians.
That shipment of Russian medical supplies for the United States contained something else: a mystery over who paid for it. And why two Russian companies sanctioned by the United States were involved.
Barun Mathema, an infectious disease researcher at Columbia University in New York, speaks about children being exposed to COVID-19, what groups of children are at greater risk from the disease, and why they generally appear to be less vulnerable as a group.
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