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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, who has railed against social distancing measures and repeatedly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus as the epidemic in his country became the second-worst in ...

With the coronavirus still raging and the autumn semester approaching, colleges and universities in the US are telling large segments of their student populations to stay home. Those who are allowed ...

The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, officials said, breaking off ties with the global health body a...

A US government agency has asked all international students to leave the country if their universities switch to online-only courses because of the pandemic. Indian students pursuing higher studies i...

Chinese ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi on Tuesday intensified talks with leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party as Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli faced mounting pressure to step down. Hou met sen...

The federal government will pay the vaccine maker Novavax $1.6 billion to expedite the development of 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the beginning of next year, the company said on Tues...

In a decision that will adversely impact hundreds of thousands of Indian students in the US, the federal immigration authority has announced that foreign students pursuing degrees in America will have...

Alarmed at China’s stranglehold over supplies of masks, gowns, test kits and other front-line weapons for battling the coronavirus, countries around the world have set up their own factories to ...

The Dalai Lama made a bid for music chart stardom on on Monday, his 85th birthday, with the release of an album of mantras and teachings. Inner World kicks off with the track One Of My Favourite Pray...

Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly helped define a cinematic era, has died, his lawyer said ...