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JazzIRT/iStock(MADRID) — Members of the Spanish Armed Forces made a disturbing discovery as they disinfected nursing homes in the battle against the country’s rising number of novel coronavirus cases. Soldiers found corpses left behind in their beds

Dean Mitchell/iStock(FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the negligence of a Broward County assisted living facility in handling the novel coronavirus pandemic “cost . . . residents their lives” and “could be” considered criminal.

ALEXEY DRUZHININ/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin donned a hazmat suit and breathing mask during a visit to a hospital housing coronavirus patients in Moscow on Tuesday, as the Russian government signalled the virus

beyhanyazar/iStock(NEW YORK) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that the country would be imposing a “total ban” on Indians venturing outside their homes to combat the spread of coronavirus, in perhaps the largest restriction on

Kiyoshi Tanno/iStockNOTE: The State Department is urging all Americans stranded overseas to enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) at step.state.gov so that they receive the latest information, including on possible repatriation flights, from the local

vchal/iStock(NEW YORK) — Over 1.5 billion people across the globe — more than one-fifth of the world’s population — have been ordered or urged to stay home amid a deadly pandemic of the novel coronavirus, which the

Marilyn Nieves/iStock(MOSCOW) The trial of Paul Whelan, the former United States Marine held on espionage charges in Russia, formally opened on Monday, more than a year after he was first seized by Russian security services. Whelan, a

Manel Vinuesa/iStock(WASHINGTON) — National Park Service staff and communities around the national parks issued pleas for the visiting public to consider the risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus in national parks, saying that despite the desire

Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks(WASHINGTON) — After weeks of political in-fighting have paralyzed the Afghan government and frozen the peace process between it and the Taliban, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise trip

Samara Heisz/iStock(NEW YORK) — A growing pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected hundreds of thousands of people around the world, spreading to every continent except Antartica since emerging in China back in December. Data compiled