U.S. President Donald Trump says he has directed a halt to the country's payments to the World Health Organization pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and China.
Ukrainian emergency officials said Tuesday they have extinguished forest fires in the radiation-contaminated area near the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, but acknowledged that grass was still smouldering in some areas.
China is getting its own "Chornobyl moment" due to Beijing's attempts to hide and distort key scientific data on the COVID-19 pandemic and its crackdown on whistleblowers questioning the government's response to the outbreak, say the authors of an open letter published Tuesday.
The leaders of Irish rival parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael agreed on Tuesday to govern together for the first time if they can get additional support to form a coalition two months after an election since overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis.
Barack Obama has endorsed his former vice-president and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden for president of the United States.
With much of the world struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still some good-news stories to report. Here's a brief roundup.
Representatives for the International Monetary Fund say they expect the global economy to shrink three per cent in 2020, its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
New York's governor said Tuesday he wouldn't abide by any order from U.S. President Donald Trump to reopen his state in an unsafe manner during the coronavirus outbreak. New York and California, two of the three biggest states in terms of economic output, are helping to lead regional efforts to analyze how and when to reopen.
A total of 111 Africans in Guangzhou had tested positive for the novel coronavirus as of Monday, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, a day after China dismissed allegations levelled by African and U.S. diplomats that persons of colour in the city of Guangzhou were being subjected to forceful testing for coronavirus, quarantine and ill treatment.
A long-term care home in Toronto is reporting additional COVID-19 deaths as politicians in the provinces and Ottawa face increased scrutiny over what's being done to protect seniors and the vulnerable from a novel virus that has now infected more than 25,000 people in Canada. Here's a look at what's happening in Canada and around the world.
The UN health agency is warning that more than 117 million children in more than three-dozen countries could miss out on measles vaccines as nations suspend immunizations and other services to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
South Korea says North Korean fighter jets have fired missiles off the North's east coast.
