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iStock By: IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — During the last academic year, more than a million students from around the world attended U.S. colleges and universities, according to studies, but the coronavirus pandemic […]

DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty ImagesBy MEREDITH DELISO and ELLA TORRES, ABC News (OTTOWA, Ontario) — Canada is banning military-style assault weapons after the country’s deadliest mass-shooting in history, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday. “These […]

Maruša Stroligo/iStock By TOMMY BROOKSBANK, ABC News (CAIRNS, Australia) — Employees of an Australian dive tour operator continue to plant coral on the Great Barrier Reef after business was shut down in wake of the […]

Goldcastle7/iStockBy SOO RIN KIM, DR. TIFFANY KUNG and MARK ABDELMALEK, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Imagine that you’re in a midsize city, the lock-down has been lifted and you finally go back to the office […]

AlpamayoPhoto/iStockBy IAN PANNELL and DAVID R MERRELL, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Syria and Yemen face potential devastation if a large-scale outbreak of the novel coronavirus hits the war-torn regions, according to humanitarian aid organizations. […]

iStock/Jittawit Tachakanjanapong(NEW YORK) — BY: ELLA TORRES Humanitarian organizations have warned that children around the globe face “unprecedented risk” as school closures related to COVID-19 drag on, and they’ve issued guidelines to assist in balancing […]

DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty ImagesBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (OTTOWA, Ontario) — Canada’s government will make an announcement on banning military-style assault weapons “in the coming days,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. “We have […]

beyhanyazar/iStockBy CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S is considering restricting travel from Brazil as the country’s outbreak of the novel coronavirus worsens and threatens to make it the new epicenter of the pandemic. […]

Adam Smigielski/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC New (MOSCOW) — When he landed in Moscow in early March from South Korea, Vladimir Bykovsky said he was ordered into self-quarantine for two weeks. Under the rules, he was […]

Emma Sohl – Capture the Light Photography via Getty ImagesBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — The veteran known as “Captain Tom,” who raised tens of millions of dollars for the British National Health Service, […]