Brutal weekly unemployment numbers underscored the coronavirus pandemic's continued ability to destroy jobs in the United States -- 36.5 million in two months -- as President Donald Trump and his allies pushed to reopen the world's largest economy. About 2.98 million people filed fresh...

France's death toll from the coronavirus rose by 351 to 27,425 on Thursday, the health ministry announced, but the number of patients in hospital and in intensive care units continued to drop. Thursday’s tally marks a significant increase from the 83 deaths reported on Wednesday, owing...

 U.S. President Donald Trump further hardened his rhetoric towards China Thursday, saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning darkly he might cut ties over the rival superpower's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Tensions have ratcheted up between Washington...

Arab stock markets plunged almost a quarter in value in the first three months of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in oil prices, a U.N. agency said Thursday. "The drop in oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a 23-percent average loss for major Arab stock...