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Courtesy Dennis Bennett(SEOUL, South Korea) — When news of the coronavirus broke, Brandon Woolfolk, an American teacher who lives with his girlfriend in Shanghai, was in the Philippines and planning to travel to Malaysia and […]

Courtesy Julia Gogos(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) — When Julia Gogos and her children threw their very own “message in a bottle” into the Rhine River in Germany about eight years ago, they didn’t expect a response. […]

Kuzma/iStock(ROME) — The trial of the two American teens accused of killing an Italian police officer begins in Rome Wednesday, with the pair facing charges of aggravated murder and attempted extortion. Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 19, […]

narvikk/iStock(LONDON) — An American soldier based in South Korea has become the first U.S. service member to be diagnosed with the novel coronavirus as the outbreak, which began in China, infects more than 80,000 people […]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images(LONDON) — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met on Tuesday one of the very few people in the world who knows what it’s like to be the face of a movement in your […]

KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) — At least four U.S. universities have canceled study abroad programs in Florence and urged students to leave Italy amid fears of the coronavirus spreading further in Europe. Syracuse University, New York University, […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) — As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused the governments of China and Iran of censoring information about the outbreaks in their […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — “So far,” a deal among the U.S., the Taliban and the Afghan government to reduce violence “is working,” according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But, Pompeo said, the U.S. will […]

EMPPhotography/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said Tuesday it will screen all personnel boarding its ships for coronavirus — formally called COVID-19 — as the virus spreads across Asia. “We have developed plans to […]

ABC News(NIIGATA, Japan) — The Japanese man who was recently named the world’s oldest living male person has passed away at the age of 112. Chitetsu Watanabe was honored by Guinness World Records with a […]