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iStock(NEW YORK) — Sixteen people, including a police officer, are dead in Nova Scotia following the worst shooting rampage in Canadian history, according to multiple reports. The suspect, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, is “deceased,” […]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Following a manhunt, Canadian police have arrested a suspect in a Nova Scotia shooting after multiple victims were found. Gabriel Wortman, 51, was taken into custody on Sunday after a pursuit throughout […]

Courtesy Steven Song(NEW YORK) — Teenagers Lily Chen and Steven Song are among the rare few to have experienced the global COVID-19 pandemic from virus hot zones on two continents. As the outbreak swept the […]

ChandraDhas/iStock(NEW YORK) — On a sunny Monday in January, Bárbara Méndez arrived at daycare center El Centro Abrazar in Bogotá, Colombia, to drop off her 2-year-old son Michal before heading to work. She had only […]

Totojang/iStock(NEW YORK) — The first 100,000 coronavirus antibody tests authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and headed to New York City could have been deployed days ago, but they’ve been stuck in red-tape limbo […]

HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Even as the Chinese city of Wuhan emerges from its 76-day lockdown, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first cluster of COVID-19 was detected in December, remains […]

beyhanyazar/iStock(LONDON) — Earlier this week, the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced that the lockdown currently in place to protect 1.3 billion people would remain in force until at least May 3. While the […]

Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) — Thae Yong Ho, the second-highest ranking North Korean official to have defected to South Korea, made history becoming the first defector to be directly elected as a lawmaker in […]

MarioGuti/iStock(LONDON) — Capt. Tom Moore, who fought in World War II, is again going to great lengths for his countrymen. The 99-year-old British veteran has raised more than £7 million — almost $9 million — […]

Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images(BERLIN) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of Germany’s 16 states have decided to allow some stores to open as early as next week even as social distancing guidelines […]