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A man carries bags of groceries as volunteers distribute food in Harlem, New York City, Saturday, March 28, 2020. (AFP Photo)  The U.S. recorded 518 new coronavirus-linked deaths in the span of 24 hours, according to data published Sunday by Johns Hopkins University, as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state’s coronavirus death toll […]

Employees at the Nikola Tesla airport unload medical supplies sent from China to help country’s fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) outbrake in Belgrade, Serbia, March 21, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] The spread of COVID-19 is now posing an especially severe challenge to the Middle East, where chronic wars, sanctions, famine, financial collapse and political unrest have hampered efforts […]

Nivaquine, left, which contains chloroquine, and Plaqueril, which contain hydroxychloroquine. The FDA has approved the use of these drugs in hospitals for certain cases of COVID-19 infection in teens and adults. © Gerard Julien, AFP (file photo) A limited emergency-use authorization for two antimalarial drugs touted as game-changers by President Donald Trump has been issued by […]

Members of the Emergency Military Unit disinfect a center for minors in Catalonia.ALEJANDRO GARCÍA / EFE Official figures released on Sunday by the Spanish Health Ministry showed that a total of 6,528 people in the country have now died from the coronavirus, with 838 new deaths in the last 24 hours. Registered infections of the […]

(ANSA) – Milan,  An 86-year-old woman from Casalpusterlengo infected with the novel coronavirus , or COVID-19, has recovered after 7 weeks in hospital.Her story “gives us a great deal of hope”, said mayor Elia Delmiglio. The town is in the Lodi province in Italy’s northern province of Lombardy, hit hard by the pandemic. The patient, […]

TEHRAN- The total number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Iran has reached 38,309, of whom 2,640 have died and 12,391 recovered. Meanwhile, 2,901 new patients have been identified over the past 24 hours, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Sunday. He added that 123 more people have died during the same period of time, […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversees a “strategic guided weapons” test in this image released by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency on March 21, 2020. (YonhapNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversees a “strategic guided weapons” test in this image released by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency on March 21, 2020. (Yonhap North Korea fired what […]

A still image taken from a video distributed by Yemen’s pro-Houthi Al Masirah television station on November 5, 2017, shows what it says was the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh’s King Khaled Airport. (Reuters)  The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the […]

   © Getty Images For 5,000 years, gold has proven its status as the ultimate store of value. Today’s investors rush to buy the precious metal at the faintest market uncertainty. Over the past decade, global central banks have joined the gold rush. The volumes of gold gobbled by regulators across the world in 2018 […]