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...
APRIL 5, 2020
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2012, file photo shows an entrance to the Bronx Zoo in New York. A tiger at the zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. It's believed to be the first infection in an animal in the U.S. and the first known in a tiger anywhere, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said...
APRIL 5, 2020
LONDON, ENGLAND — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized on Sunday evening after 10 days of battling the coronavirus, unnerving a country that had gathered to watch Queen Elizabeth II rally fellow Britons to confront the pandemic and reassure them that when the crisis finally ebbed, “we will meet again.”
The British government said that Mr. Johnson...
APRIL 5, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Sunday that the coming week is going to be "bad" as the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continues to rise in the U.S., even as the number of new cases is beginning to stabilize in...
APRIL 5, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Sunday that the dismissal of the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who raised the alarm about a coronavirus outbreak on the aircraft carrier, is "close to criminal."
The former vice president said on ABC's "This Week" that Capt. Brett Crozier "stood up and said what had to be said" with...
APRIL 5, 2020
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. - JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday warned the people of his country that they are not immune to the threat posed by the coronavirus. He, however, exuded confidence that Pakistan would emerge stronger from the challenge.
"Nobody should have the false notion that they...
