U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Mexico has committed to cuts in oil production of 100,000 barrels per day to help contribute to global reductions. At a White House briefing on the coronavirus, Trump said the United States was helping Mexico with the cuts as he did not want...

Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people for who may have been infected by coronavirus...

Turkey’s confirmed cases of coronavirus increased by 4,747 and 98 people died in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll from the disease to 1,006, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Friday. The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,423, with 281 recoveries in the last 24...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries on Friday to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and voiced alarm it was taking hold in Africa. The United Nations agency would like to see an easing, but at the same time “lifting...

With an aircraft carrier forced into port and nuclear missile crews hit by COVID-19, the US military wants rivals to understand: don't test us, we have not been weakened. Statement after statement from the Pentagon has sought to deliver that message amid questions this week over whether the...

U.S. President Donald Trump held a second straight day of telephone conversations with Russia's president focused on oil and the international fight against the novel coronavirus, the White House said Friday. "President Trump and President Putin discussed the latest efforts to combat the...

Morocco has started manufacturing its own ventilators with oxygen masks, with 500 expected to be ready by mid-April to help meet demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Industry Ministry said. The North African kingdom has confirmed 1,431 cases of the novel coronavirus, including 105...

President Donald Trump is claiming without evidence that expanding mail-in voting will increase voter fraud. But several GOP state officials are forging ahead to do just that, undermining one of Trump’s arguments about how elections should be conducted amid the coronavirus outbreak. While...

Six directors of Spanish La Liga champions Barcelona have quit in the latest turmoil within the club hierarchy that fans and players including Lionel Messi are increasingly frustrated at. The board members' protest deepened chaos at the world's richest club, hit by plunging revenues from...

Christians are commemorating Jesus' crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years, marking Good Friday in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic. The chanting of a small group of clerics inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher echoed...

Criminal organizations in Italy are distributing food and ordering interest-free lending to the needy to try to extend their influence, Italian anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano has warned. Italy's mafia groups are also poised to snatch up struggling businesses as the country -- which is in...

Iran's total death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose to 4,232 Friday with 122 lives lost in the past 24 hours, according to a health ministry spokesman. The total number of people diagnosed with the disease increased by 1,972 in the past 24 hours to a total of 68,192, the spokesman,...

Lebanon's security forces said Friday they had made their largest cannabis seizure in history last month, unearthing 25 tonnes of the drug intended for Africa. The Mediterranean country on March 15 announced a lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, which has now officially infected 609...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was resting in hospital Friday as he recovered from COVID-19 while Britons were told to avoid the temptation of spring sunshine during the Easter break with the coronavirus outbreak approaching a peak. The flamboyant 55-year-old leader's visible decline shook...

Spain recorded its lowest daily death toll from coronavirus in 17 days, with 605 people dying, the government said Friday. The update raised the overall number of fatalities to 15,843 in Spain, which has suffered one of the worst outbreaks of COVID-19 in the world, and where the total...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world will spend the Easter holiday at home as lockdown measures intensify to combat the coronavirus, a pandemic with a global death toll rapidly approaching 100,000. Governments have forced businesses to close and limited the movement of half the...

Russia reported 1,786 more coronavirus cases on Friday, its largest daily rise so far, which took the national tally of confirmed infections to 11,917. The number of coronavirus-related deaths rose by 18 to 94, the Russian coronavirus crisis response center said in a statement.

The huge cost of the coronavirus pandemic is upending Japan's seven-year experiment to rescue the economy from its debt timebomb, as recession fears prompt calls for "helicopter money" - unlimited spending bankrolled by the central bank. Days after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a...

 A proposed reduction in oil production by OPEC and other oil-producing countries including Russia involves a 10 million barrels per day cut until July, then an 8 million barrels per day cut through the end of the year, Saudi Arabia said Friday as the deal hung in the balance. OPEC and...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the U.N. Security Council Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is threatening international peace and security - "potentially leading to an increase in social unrest and violence that would greatly undermine our ability to fight the disease." He...