Voting rights advocates believe the pandemic will significantly impact how many people turn out in upcoming elections.
The Saudi-UAE-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels in Yemen begins a two-week truce due to coronavirus pandemic.
Chad's army says it lost 52 troops during the operation against Boko Haram.
Medics, opposition politicians and activists sound alarm over shortage of test kits and infrastructure challenges.
Grim totals come as NY, other states see drop in hospitalisations, a sign social distancing, other measures are working.
Doctors must weigh risks of not doing surgeries, treatment with what coronavirus threat may mean if they do.
EU mulls expanding sanctions on Damascus, following report blaming Syrian government for toxic attacks in 2017.
Senate Democrats stall Trump's request for $250bn to supplement a 'paycheck protection' programme for businesses.
Desert locusts swarm into Uganda from neighbouring Kenya, threatening food security and livelihoods.
Mustafa al-Kadhimi is the third person to be appointed to the post in just over two months.
As countries close borders to curb spread of coronavirus, aid groups in Niger 'overwhelmed' by requests of support.
Statement comes after Saudi-UAE coalition announced two-week unilateral ceasefire to prevent coronavirus outbreak.
Abdul Chowdhury, the latest doctor to die of coronavirus, warned PM Johnson to provide NHS workers with adequate PPE.
ISIL claims responsibility for Bagram airbase attack, which comes weeks after Taliban-US troop withdrawal deal.
Team members were quarantined for month before launch, and were unable to meet family and reporters as usual.
Competing leaks of intelligence reports from the White House and Congress signal 'a deep undercurrent of distrust'.
Organisations, celebrities and activists scramble to give information on how favela residents can protect themselves.
Ethnic minorities in UK could face further discrimination as a result of new rules in the pandemic, academics say.
With more than 20,000 cases in the city, they are hoping to get patients into newly built field hospitals as soon as possible.
Health experts say hospitals in Florida will be strained by the summer as the death toll rises.
Travel restrictions and border closures are making it much harder for humanitarian agencies to deliver aid.
As UK hospital deaths from COVID-19 rose by a record 938 in 24 hours, infected prime minister is said to be improving.
Authorities and residents in Gaza are behaving as if virus is already a threat to prevent potential catastrophe.
Pushing trucks, fencing tennis balls and homemade gyms: How three British athletes are adapting to lockdown.
A political and economic apparatus rigged to enrich the few at the expense of the many was always destined to collapse.
