APRIL 8, 2020
DALLAS, TEXAS - MARCH 20: A detail view as American Airlines fleet services employees prepare to load cargo pallets on a 777-300 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) bound for Frankfurt Airport in Germany during the cornoavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on March 20, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. The first cargo-only flight departs from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport...
APRIL 8, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race, after weeks of clinging to an all-but-impossible path to victory over his moderate rival Joe Biden in a race now frozen by the coronavirus crisis.
Sanders thanked his supporters for helping the country take a “major step forward” in...
APRIL 7, 2020
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner during a daily White House coronavirus briefing. - Win McNamee/Getty Images
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s task force has reached out to a range of health technology companies about creating a national coronavirus surveillance system to give the government a near real-time view of where patients are seeking treatment and...
APRIL 7, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Acting Pentagon watchdog Glenn Fine. - Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
President Donald Trump has upended the panel of federal watchdogs overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, tapping a replacement for the Pentagon official who was supposed to lead the effort.
A panel of inspectors general had named Glenn Fine — the acting Pentagon watchdog —...
APRIL 6, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic penetrates more deeply into global supply chains, prices for key staples are starting to soar in some parts of the world.
Rice and wheat -- crops that account for about a third of the world’s calories -- have been making rapid climbs in spot and futures markets. For countries that rely on imports,...
APRIL 6, 2020
OTTAWA — Canada has been having problems for weeks with incomplete or non-existent deliveries of critical supplies for its fight against COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Monday — and he's singling out the United States in particular.
Shipments coming into Canada from all over the world have been held up, stopped or depleted, but those emanating from the U.S. have...
APRIL 6, 2020
NEW DELHI - As India entered the 13th day of its 21-day lockdown imposed to curb coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday asked Union ministers to prepare a "graded plan" to slowly open up areas that have not emerged as hotspots of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Indian Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the council of ministers via...
APRIL 6, 2020
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar cast his vote in the referendum on May 25, 2018. (AP)
The Irish Times reported Varadkar, who graduated with a medical degree from Dublin's Trinity University in 2003, is to work assessing patients over the phone.
DUBLIN, IRELAND - Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has re-joined the medical register to help the health service...
APRIL 5, 2020
TORONTO, CANADA — The premier of a Canadian province that sheltered thousands of stranded American airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks questioned the humanity of U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday after Trump banned the export of N95 protective masks to Canada.
The conservative leader of another province compared it to one family member feasting while letting another...
APRIL 5, 2020
As appealed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, millions of people across India on Sunday switched off the lights of their houses at 9 pm for nine minutes to show solidarity in country’s fight against the novel coronavirus and to end its ‘darkness’.
PM Modi, in a ‘short video message’ on Friday, had appealed people to light candles and...
