A hospital in India demanded Muslim patients and their attendants prove they didn’t have Covid-19 before being admitted for treatment. The privately…
Michelle Thompson
The Iranian leadership’s difficulties in coping with the coronavirus pandemic have grown increasingly stark, as internal documents indicate an…
Across the world, governments are embarking on enormous experiments as they work out how to exit their coronavirus lockdowns and resume economic…
May 8
A herder drives camels on Badain Jaran Desert on May 1, 2020 in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Getty)
A visitor in a plexiglass lock talks to a resident at Les Jardins d'Astrid, a rest home in Maurage, La Louviere, on April 29, 2020, as the visits to residents of rest homes are possible from today in Wallonia. (Getty)
Students eat their lunch on desks with plastic partitions as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Dajia Elementary School in Taipei on April 29, 2020. (Getty)
Resident Johanna Pfeiffer, 96, looks on from her room as singer Alf Weiss performs live at the Hermann Radtke Haus nursing home during the novel coronavirus crisis on April 29, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)
Lisa Fascilla, with children Nina and Alex receive a beer delivery from Karen and Mark Heuwetter and their two dogs Buddy and Barley on May 03, 2020 in Huntington Village, New York. (Getty)
Protesters rally from their cars as they call for the state to lift stay-at-home orders and reopen the economy in downtown Richmond, Virginia near the State Capitol complex on May 6, 2020.(Getty)
Politicians all over the world have embraced war metaphors to describe the global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is…
It is now abundantly clear that the world cannot fully emerge from its current state of novel coronavirus lockdown until a vaccine is found. Never…
The Great Depression of the 1930s led to PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which created some of the United States’ most important…
Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad is once again conflicting with his businessman cousin Rami Makhlouf. Spats between both men are a regular…
The second decade of the third millennium has kicked off with a global crisis in the form of COVID-19. The virus started in China and has since…
The economic free fall accompanying the coronavirus pandemic has, by some measures, made the world a cleaner place. Air pollution in Chinese, Indian,…
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Doha strike: Israel goes after the Gaza negotiating table
