Category Archives: World News

• Trump’s touting of unproven COVID-19 drug is unusual. We’ll soon see if he’s right

  admin April 8, 2020

  It’s unusual for an elected leader to promote unproven medicine. But Donald Trump, a norm-smashing U.S. president facing the political fight of his life, is all-in on a malaria drug as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Now, a global race is on to test the drug — and the wisdom of Trump’s move. Read more »

• Canada OKs travel vouchers for cancelled flights while U.S. and EU say passengers deserve a refund

  admin April 8, 2020

  While the Canadian Transportation Agency states airlines only have to offer travel vouchers for cancelled flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, both the European Union and the U.S. have declared that passengers are entitled to cash refunds. Read more »

• ‘I’m not abandoning my wife and child’: Families fight to stick together in COVID-19 pandemic

  admin April 8, 2020

  A mother stuck in India begs the Canadian government to be reunited with her children in Quebec. An Ontario man refuses to abandon his pregnant wife in Peru. Couples navigate border closures, flight cancellations and immigration delays in their bid to stay together during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

• New York sees its deadliest day yet in coronavirus crisis

  admin April 7, 2020

  New York recorded the single greatest one-day jump in deaths from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, but the state’s governor pointed to other signs that the state may be reaching a plateau in its wrenching efforts to limit the damage caused by the pandemic. Read more »

• U.K. PM Boris Johnson in intensive care with worsening coronavirus symptoms

  admin April 7, 2020

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting worsening coronavirus symptoms in an intensive care unit on Tuesday, leaving his foreign minister to lead the government’s response to the accelerating outbreak. Read more »

• Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Monday

  admin April 6, 2020

  Eligible Canadians can start applying for a emergency benefit program on Monday as Ottawa tries to keep people afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed thousands of lives worldwide and prompted a scramble to secure critical supplies. Here’s what’s happening around Canada and the world. Read more »

• U.S. deaths from COVID-19 climb to over 10,000: Johns Hopkins

  admin April 6, 2020

  The death toll in New York, the state hardest hit by COVID-19, was “effectively flat” for the second day in a row, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in his daily news conference on Monday, but the U.S. as a whole saw the death toll from the pandemic climb to over 10,000. Read more »

• Swedes’ trust in government put to test as coronavirus deaths spike

  admin April 6, 2020

  Sweden’s days as an European outlier in the fight against coronavirus may be ending. As deaths rise, many are questioning measures that appear relaxed compared with the rest of the world. Read more »

• U.K PM Boris Johnson is doing well, expected back at his office shortly, says minister

  admin April 6, 2020

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “doing well” and is expected to be back at his office shortly, housing minister Robert Jenrick said on Monday after the British leader was admitted to hospital on Sunday night. Read more »

• ‘We will meet again’: Queen Elizabeth urges self-discipline, resolve amid coronavirus pandemic

  admin April 6, 2020

  Queen Elizabeth told the British people on Sunday that they would overcome the coronavirus outbreak if they stayed resolute in the face of lockdown and self-isolation, invoking the spirit of the Second World War in an extremely rare broadcast to the nation. Read more »