At Brazil’s biggest cemetery, grave diggers take own measure of coronavirus toll
As Oswaldo dos Santos watched several men in protective suits dig a hasty grave for his 36-year-old son, his grief was mixed with fear: What if he had the coronavirus? What if they all did?
U.S. Navy relieves commander of coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier
The U.S. Navy on Thursday relieved the commander of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter that leaked to the public asking the Navy for stronger measures to control a coronavirus outbreak onboard the ship.
Global coronavirus cases surpass one million: U.S. researchers
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 51,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy, according to a tally by a U.S. university.
China answers Brazil plea for medical equipment to fight coronavirus
By Maria Carolina Marcello, Eduardo Simões and Lisandra Paraguassu
Pakistan court set to free four accused in Daniel Pearl killing
A Pakistani court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of the main person accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of an American Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, and acquitted three other co-accused in the matter.
U.S. Navy relieves commander of coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier
The U.S. Navy announced on Thursday it had relieved the commander of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter that leaked to the public asking Navy leadership for stronger measures to control a coronavirus outbreak onb…
Israel’s Netanyahu gets all-clear after second coronavirus scare this week
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday after his health minister was diagnosed with it, officials said, the 70-year-old leader’s second infection scare this week.
Canada faces ‘critical week’ in coronavirus crisis, death toll jumps
Canada faces “a critical week” in fighting the coronavirus, a senior official said on Thursday, as the death toll jumped and the most populous province said residents should brace for a stark scenario.
Latin America adjusts to home schooling as coronavirus halts class
Vanesa Jaimes studied to become an administrative worker in Venezuela’s health care system, but these days she could be more accurately described as a teacher – to her four kids.
Gender divide: Peru limits men and women to alternate days out to stall virus
Amid a strict quarantine in Peru to slow the spread of a coronavirus pandemic, men and women will only be allowed to leave their homes on designed days divided up by gender, the country’s President Martin Vizcarra said on Thursday.
