Moscow has begun investigating the safety of a Russian-made medical ventilator, some of which have been sent to the United States though not used, after six people died in hospital fires reported to involve two such machines.
With Brazilian hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the country's state and city governments are proceeding with mandatory lockdowns against the will of President Jair Bolsonaro.
Advice from the top U.S. disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic included detailed instructive guidance and some more restrictive measures than the plan released by the White House last month.
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared divided as they weighed President Donald Trump's bid to prevent Democratic-led congressional panels from getting his financial records, with the court's conservative majority seeming focused on potential harassment of the president by lawmakers.
Italian police have arrested 91 suspected mobsters in a probe of money-laundering and extortion in a bid to thwart Sicily's Cosa Nostra from exploiting economic woes triggered by the pandemic.
South Korean authorities were combing through mobile phone data, credit card statements and closed-circuit TV footage on Tuesday to identify people who visited nightclubs at the centre of one of the capital's biggest novel coronavirus clusters.
Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday where the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders runs a maternity clinic, killing 13 people, including two newborn babies, officials said.
A fire Tuesday morning at St. George Hospital in St. Petersburg killed five coronavirus patients who were on ventilators, Russian emergency officials said.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday considers three blockbuster cases that will affect President Donald Trump's attempts to shield certain of his financial records. The decision could also potentially impact his re-election hopes and his post-presidential life.
A senior U.S. health official set to testify on Tuesday before the U.S. Senate will warn against the risks of reopening the economy too soon, saying it could lead to "needless suffering and death," the New York Times said.
