WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic
NICOLE WINFIELD, COLLEEN BARRY and JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that...
Russia passes bill allowing Putin to stay in power past 2024
DARIA LITVINOVAÂ
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian parliament approved a sweeping constitutional reform in the third and final reading Wednesday, a move that will...
Putin backs term limit freeze allowing him to stay in office
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DARIA LITVINOVAÂ
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed his tightly guarded political plans Tuesday and supported a constitutional amendment...
Italian premier locks down entire country to stop virus
COLLEEN BARRY and ANTONIO CALANNI
Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte put his entire country on lockdown Monday to combat the coronavirus,...
N. Korea fires weapons after threatening ‘momentous’ action
HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range projectiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said,...
Harry, Meghan do their last royal job at Commonwealth event
DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will make their final appearance as senior royals Monday when they appear...
Virus closes sites around the world; stocks, oil prices sink
COLLEEN BARRY and LORI HINNANT
Associated Press
SOAVE, Italy (AP) — Fear over the new coronavirus epidemic sent global stock markets and oil prices plunging...
Virus crisis ebbs in China, spreads fear across the West
LORI HINNANT and KEN MORITSUGU
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The coronavirus crisis shifted increasingly westward toward the Mideast, Europe and the United States on...
Virus crisis tracks West, ebbing in China; Fed slashes rates
LORI HINNANT and KEN MORITSUGU
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The coronavirus crisis shifted increasingly westward toward Europe and the United States on Tuesday, with...
Kim watches N Korea military drill alongside masked officers
KIM TONG-HYUNG
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised an earlier live-fire rocket artillery exercise to confirm his...