MARCH 25, 2020
NEW DELHI - As India along with the rest of the world struggles to combat the COVID-19 threat, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi called External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
The call came at a time when China and the US are engaged in a raging diplomatic tussle over who is responsible for the Coronavirus pandemic. China asked...
MARCH 25, 2020
FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, in the background, leave after attending the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Monday, March 9, 2020.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus but...
MARCH 24, 2020
One of the last bastions of normal American life could not escape the outbreak.
For a couple of weeks now, grocery stores have been one of the only respites from cabin fever. Despite all the lockdowns and social-distancing measures across America, people still need food. In the most restrictive states, the grocery store has become about the last...
MARCH 24, 2020
Security personnel wearing facemasks patrol on the streets in Shaheen Bagh area after removing demonstrators continuously protesting against a new citizenship law, while the government imposed a lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in New Delhi on March 24.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a "complete" lockdown for India's 1.3 billion people on Tuesday,...
MARCH 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic will cause a global recession in 2020 that could be worse than the one triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008-09 but world economic output should recover in 2021, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva welcomed extraordinary fiscal actions already taken by many countries to boost health...
MARCH 23, 2020
President Donald Trump departs after speaking at a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, March 22, 2020, in Washington. Standing behind Trump are Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vice President Mike Pence and FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump is...
MARCH 23, 2020
White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Anthony S. Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, listen as President Trump speaks at a news conference Friday. - Jabin Botsford/The WashPost Deborah Birx
Amid the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, Anthony S. Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been charged with a herculean...
MARCH 22, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Medical staff in protective gear work at a 'drive-thru' testing center for the novel coronavirus disease of COVID-19 in Yeungnam University Medical Center in Daegu. - Reuters/Kim Kyung Hoon
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect...
MARCH 22, 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard predicted the U.S. unemployment rate may hit 30% in the second quarter because of shutdowns to combat the coronavirus, with an unprecedented 50% drop in gross domestic product.
Bullard called for a powerful fiscal response to replace the $2.5 trillion in lost income that quarter to ensure a strong...
MARCH 22, 2020
Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest in the world
Canadian scientists have discovered a fragment of an ancient continent, suggesting that it was 10% larger than previously thought.
They were studying diamond samples from Baffin Island, a glacier-covered land mass near Greenland, when they noticed a remnant of North Atlantic Craton.
Cratons are ancient, stable...
