Anne Glenconner, Princess Margaret's Lady-in-Waiting and close confidant to Queen Elizabeth II's sister, believes history has prepared the British royal family to ...
It was always a question of when, not if, the Queen would speak. Not because there is any rule to these broadcasts. There have been four, in very different ...
Queen Elizabeth will call on Britons to show the same resolve as their forebears and take on the challenge and disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak ...
This opinion article is being published by POLITICO as part of a *content* partnership with the South China Morning Post. It originally appeared on scmp.com on ...
The U.S. and China are engaged in a war to claim the coveted spot of soft-power hegemon. Thankfully, no bullets — or even tariffs — are involved. Yet, in no ...
Japanese ruling party executive Fumio Kishida said on Friday he has agreed with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to offer 300000 yen ($2800) in cash payments per ...
With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government stuck on the brink of declaring a state of emergency that might lead to a lockdown, Japan's restaurant, bar and ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday sounded alarm about the surge in coronavirus cases in Japan, adding to a chorus of prominent domestic ...
Mr. Starmer will have to battle for visibility at a time when the coronavirus crisis is eclipsing all other news and Prime Minister Boris Johnson is commanding the ...
Keir Starmer was elected leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party on Saturday by a decisive margin, after a contest thrown into turmoil by the coronavirus ...
Donald Trump has attacked the whistleblower whose complaint led to his impeachment last year, saying: "Somebody ought to sue his ass off." Speaking at his ...
President Donald Trump on Friday fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who had told Congress about the whistleblower complaint ...
President Trump has reportedly fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community who alerted Congress to concerns about a ...
President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community's chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last ...
President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his decision to fire the top watchdog of the U.S. Intelligence Community, saying Michael Atkinson did "a terrible ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Chinese government is sending New York 1,000 ventilators and Oregon is shipping another 140 to help respond to the state's ballooning ...
New York (CNN Business) Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks ...
Despite the Trump administration taking bold and unprecedented action to deliver needed aid to the coronavirus-infected epicenter of New York, Democratic ...
UFC president Dana White is among the heads of several major league sports that are meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday on a conference ...
There are lots of questions about the novel coronavirus that we try to answer, including whether we should wear masks, if the U.S. is testing enough and if there's ...
President Trump on Saturday doubled down on his administration's estimation that the U.S.'s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak likely will be high.
Cordoba, Spain (CNN) A further 809 people have now died from coronavirus in Spain, bringing the total to 11,744 deaths, according to Spanish Health Ministry ...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the country is "close to passing the peak of infections" as the number of coronavirus deaths fell for the second day ...
The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has exceeded 300,000, while the death toll passed 8,100. New York state's coronavirus toll has risen at a ...
OTTAWA — Parallel efforts to combat the coronavirus are fraying an already tense alliance as Justin Trudeau struggles to rely on the Trump administration for ...
Manufacturing giant 3M pushed backed against President Trump on Friday, suggesting it would not comply with a White House order to stop exporting masks to ...
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro accused U.S. manufacturing conglomerate 3M Friday of "whining" about criticism from President Trump over its ...
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that Canada won't bring retaliatory or punitive measures against the United States after the ...
As the new coronavirus has swept across the world, governments have put the squeeze on trade in the vital medical supplies needed to fight it. The U.S. this ...
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The cruise industry found itself in an unusual position during the coronavirus pandemic. The massive ships were among the earliest and most high-profile ...
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Two people on the Coral Princess cruise ship, which reported 12 positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, died overnight, according to an announcement from ...
There were 1300 direct flights to 17 cities before President Trump's travel restrictions. Since then, nearly 40000 Americans and other authorized travelers have ...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that over a dozen countries have said they will begin or continue ceasefires, in response to his appeal for ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday renewed his call for a global ceasefire, urging all parties to conflict to lay down arms and allow war-torn nations to ...
The leader of the United Nations has called the coronavirus pandemic the most challenging crisis since the organization's founding after World War II. But the ...
Two people have been killed and five wounded in a knife attack in south-east France, in what the interior minister described as a terrorist incident. Witnesses ...
Anti-terrorism prosecutors were investigating a knife attack Saturday in a French town under coronavirus lockdown that left two people dead and seven injured, ...
Former State Department officials were "mystified" and "bemused" by the United States' purchase of medical supplies from Russia amid the coronavirus ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday it would be impractical to restrict economic activity all over the country due to the coronavirus, given that each ...
President Vladimir Putin will meet the heads of Russia's top oil companies for talks on Friday, the Kremlin said, describing the atmosphere on the global market ...
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Easter Sunday is a celebration. Church pews overflow with ...
In the Christian calendar, Easter marks the end of the 40 days of Lent. And unlike other Christian events, such as Christmas Day, the date Easter falls on is ...
JERUSALEM — Israel is working with foreign governments and Orthodox Christian leaders in the Holy Land to make sure that one of their most ancient and ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she's creating a new House committee to oversee the coronavirus response that will have subpoena power ...
As more and more Americans are forced to stay home during the escalating coronavirus pandemic, the crisis has created a pressure-cooker situation for ...
Social entrepreneur Iti Rawat recently received an email with a picture of a woman's hand with a red dot on the palm and the message: "Ma'am, I need your ...
The head of the United Nations has urged a global cease-fire. So has the Pope. Yet violence keeps battering swaths of Africa, the Middle East and Eastern ...
(BNEI BRAK, Israel) — Early this week, the streets of the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak were bustling with shoppers as ultra-Orthodox residents, obeying their ...
Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus, but ordered in soldiers to support the residents.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish town with one of the highest rates of coronavirus cases in Israel has been placed under effective lockdown. Residents of Bnei Brak, ...
While Pope Francis's Way of the Cross *service* on Good Friday has been transferred to the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic, the meditations focus, ...
Pope Francis sends a video message as Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Holy Week in an unusual manner due to the Covid-19 coronavirus ...
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported its lowest daily rise in COVID-19 deaths for nearly two weeks on Saturday and said the number of patients in intensive care had ...
ROME (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy has climbed by 766 to 14,681, the Civil Protection Agency said on Friday, marginally ...
Italy on Saturday saw its first drop in patients receiving intensive care for the coronavirus that has killed 15362 people in the country and put the healthcare ...
CORONAVIRUS deaths in Italy dropped below Britain today as hopes were raised that the country is finally beginning to flatten the curve. Italy, the world's ...
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's national lockdown to try to contain the spread of coronavirus will probably continue beyond the start of May, Angelo Borrelli, the head of ...
Over half of the doctors and nurses who died after testing positive have been in Italy, where more than 9000 health workers have been infected so far, nearly the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that China is facilitating the shipment of 1,000 ventilators to his state, as he continues to shop ...
The scale of Spain's coronavirus outbreak caught up with Italy's on Friday as the worst in Europe, while overwhelmed regions appealed to China for assistance ...
U.S. exports of surgical masks, ventilators and other personal protective gear to China skyrocketed in January and February, when the coronavirus was ...
What started as a catastrophe for China is shaping up to be a moment of strategic opportunity, a rare turning point in the flow of history. Suddenly, the protests in ...
A large group of prominent American foreign-policy experts, including former high-ranking White House officials from both parties, is calling on the Trump ...
Oil industry representatives will meet with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow ...
President Donald Trump will fight international efforts to collude in energy markets that could impact U.S. energy producers, but the administration cannot dictate ...
FILE - In this April 3, 1968 file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., ...
ATLANTA (AP) — A county prosecutor in Georgia said he will expunge Martin Luther King Jr.'s record for his trespassing arrest during a 1960 sit-in protesting ...
Former NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill has been appointed NYC's COVID-19 Senior Advisor and will be tasked with ensuring hospitals have the supplies ...
New York's former Police Commissioner James O'Neill will return to help manage the fight against coronavirus, as the city announced plans Wednesday to rent ...
New York coronavirus cases make up almost 40 percent of the nationwide total, and more than 2400 people with COVID-19 have died in the state, including ...
With some 7,000 cases and 200 deaths, Brazil has more coronavirus infections than any other country in Latin America. The country's health minister warns the ...
Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment for a "war budget" to separate coronavirus-related spending from the government's main ...
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has said he will declare this Sunday to be a day of prayer and fasting in response to the coronavirus outbreak, encouraging ...
Britons have been urged not to let this weekend's warm weather coax them out of their homes, to reduce the spread of coronavirus, as a leading government ...
Britain is unlikely to lift its stringent lockdown rules until the end of May, a leading government adviser said on Saturday, warning that the spread of the ...
Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst General Jack Keane on Friday highly recommended President Trump to keep sanctions against Iran during the coronavirus ...
A senior Iranian health official said the greater Tehran area may face a coronavirus resurgence after many residents flouted advisories to stay home, crowding ...
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Former Vice President Joe Biden now backs President Trump's ...
If you're going to decorate your home with a coffee table book worthy of attention for both its visual appeal and educational *content*, this is a timelessly best ...
Joe Biden should take it as a blessing that he's able to skate by for at least a month unnoticed while this pandemic plays out. Instead, he's throwing himself in ...
Even as the U.S. struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, fighting “surprise medical bills” remains a public policy battle in Congress. The issue was percolating ...
A German official accused the US of “modern piracy” after a shipment of medical masks intended for German police were reportedly diverted to the states, a sign ...
The Trump administration's global scramble to secure more protective masks for U.S. health-care workers has sparked tensions with allies including Canada ...
Perhaps half the world's population is under some form of lockdown to help curb the spread of coronavirus. Many are starting to wonder when and how these ...
There's a new coronavirus test coming, and doctors and scientists will be able to use it to determine just how widespread the disease is, who can safely return to ...
Editorial: A phone app seems better than a passport as a way out of the lockdown. This system will need to be temporary, installed at users' discretion and have ...
The coronavirus outbreak in Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador, has resulted in full morgues, desperate families and grisly scenes of bodies left on the ...
Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil has become the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak that may have already claimed hundreds of lives there and is ...
The streets of Ecuador's western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight -- and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this ...
Ecuador is one of the smallest countries in South America but it is dealing with one of the region's worst outbreaks of COVID-19, with more than 3,100 identified ...
New Delhi (CNN) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised citizens for their resilience in a televised speech Friday, as the nation entered its tenth day of a ...
Passengers from the ill-fated Holland America Zaandam cruise ship were carefully freed from their cabins and allowed to touch dry land on Friday for the first ...
As the number of deaths rises to more than 30,000 in Italy, Spain, France and Germany, many of Western Europe's hospitals are struggling to cope due to efforts ...
The newborn twins were born at the Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital in Raipur in the early hours of March 27. Their parents said the names symbolise ...
