Doctors said being asked to fight the coronavirus pandemic without adequate protective equipment was 'not a fair fight'.

Shortcomings of the Conservatives' plan for points-based immigration system exposed by COVID-19 crisis, opponents say.

Ottawa says renegotiation of contract will secure 'jobs of thousands of Canadians' but activists accuse it of hypocrisy.

The US Air Force has reported intercepting two Russian scout planes that entered its “defense identification zone” off Alaska. Moscow says it was a training flight and the planes came nowhere near US airspace....

The UFC 249 lightweight title fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje has been canceled and all future bouts under the promotion suspended, president Dana White announced Thursday....

NYC has used the island to bury those with no next of kin or whose families can not arrange a funeral since the 1800s.

Representatives of oil-producing countries have reached a tentative agreement on limiting production, nudging upward the price of crude that plummeted after a Saudi push to flood the market that coincided with C...

Tehran has released an Iranian national seen as a political prisoner in the UK as it fights the coronavirus. British activists and media rushed to say Iran’s move was not enough – while being blind to a bigger p...

Medics, opposition politicians and activists sound alarm over shortage of test kits and infrastructure challenges.

Following a brief surge, crude prices slumped again on Thursday, while OPEC and major producers led by Russia are still discussing a new output cut deal, expected to be a record one....

Russian diplomats called on their US counterparts to provide some actual evidence of allegations circulated by American media and officials that Moscow is waging a coronavirus-themed fake news campaign – but ha...

Doctors must weigh risks of not doing surgeries, treatment with what coronavirus threat may mean if they do.

The Syrian government has slammed a new report by the OPCW which directly accuses it of using chemical weapons on civilians. The conclusions of the chemical weapons watchdog are “misleading” and “false and fabri...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left the intensive care unit (ICU) of a London hospital where he was moved after his Covid-19 worsened on Monday, his office has said. Downing...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has issued a report detailing the possible best and worst-case scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the most grim projections saying the death toll could go into tens of th...

A Senate bill to add $251 billion to the emergency small business coronavirus stimulus program met with opposition from Democrats, who tried to tack on their own agenda – but CNN did its best to cover for its po...

The Russian Slapping Championships has taken lockdown literally and in a bizarre and brutal twist pitted its champ ‘Dumpling’ against Brazilian MMA beast 'Zuluzinho' in a slap match set in prison for a cash priz...

Desert locusts swarm into Uganda from neighbouring Kenya, threatening food security and livelihoods.

Senate Democrats stall Trump's request for $250bn to supplement a 'paycheck protection' programme for businesses.

Russia will send 24 military personnel and equipment to Bosnia and Herzegovina to help fight the coronavirus, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Thursday.Three flights on Thursday will deliver the aid, the mini...

As countries close borders to curb spread of coronavirus, aid groups in Niger 'overwhelmed' by requests of support.

Berlin could discuss easing restrictions on businesses and public life as early as next week, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding that progress has been made in the coronavirus fight but warning it could yet p...

New large-scale coronavirus outbreaks within the US military are certainly possible given the amount of assets it has deployed worldwide, the Pentagon has said, adding it was getting ready to operate in the “Cov...

Russia has a long list of venerable institutions, the Hermitage Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, and Moscow State University comprise a selection of national icons that any country would be proud to call their own....

News that UK MPs have been offered an extra £10,000 for “working from home” expenses ignited a firestorm of anger on social media as regular workers now out of jobs get by on measly benefits and nurses struggle...

If you know the country well, you will know this: There two Russias – the one 146 million people live in, and the fantasy version Western media outlets describe. Both exist in paralle...

The Italian government won a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday over an emergency decree that lays out measures worth €25 billion ($28 billion) to support an economy battered by a severe Covid-19 outbreak.Th...

As millions of people languish in coronavirus-induced lockdowns, it seems the natural world is enjoying the respite from humans, as two fin whales, second in size only to the blue whale, were spotted off the coa...

Team members were quarantined for month before launch, and were unable to meet family and reporters as usual.

ISIL claims responsibility for Bagram airbase attack, which comes weeks after Taliban-US troop withdrawal deal.

Abdul Chowdhury, the latest doctor to die of coronavirus, warned PM Johnson to provide NHS workers with adequate PPE.

Extreme measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic have many people questioning how long lockdown will last. Now, a new study estimates that social distancing efforts will need to continue in some form for a ye...

More than 1,000 healthcare workers and 14,400 others linked to a Covid-19 outbreak at a hospital in Hanoi have tested negative for the coronavirus, the ruling body in Vietnam’s capital said on Thursday. Bach Mai hospital, one of the c...

Health experts say hospitals in Florida will be strained by the summer as the death toll rises.

With more than 20,000 cases in the city, they are hoping to get patients into newly built field hospitals as soon as possible.

Polish borders will be closed until May 3 and the government will extend a lockdown for schools and businesses, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday. The decision means restrictions will be in place ne...

Travel restrictions and border closures are making it much harder for humanitarian agencies to deliver aid.

Google has inflicted “serious damage” on the French media and must compensate news companies for using their copyrighted content, the nation's competition regulator has said. On Thurs...

There are new calls from Australia to release Julian Assange from prison over Covid-19 fears. Two MPs, supported on Twitter by the whistleblower’s mother, sent letters to UK authorities calling for his release t...

A political and economic apparatus rigged to enrich the few at the expense of the many was always destined to collapse.

Drawing on inspiration from nature, researchers have developed 3D-printed, coral-like structures capable of growing vast amounts of microscopic algae, in a welcome move for the environment and conservationists a...

After new cases jump, Suifenhe city along border with Russia announces restrictions similar to those Wuhan endured.

Gazan authorities and residents are behaving as if virus is already a threat to prevent potential catastrophe.

MOSCOW, APRIL 9 — RT recreates the legendary wartime photograph “Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag” transforming this iconic moment of victory into a commemorative film as part of its Victory Day 75th anniversary ca...

Pushing trucks, fencing tennis balls and homemade gyms: How three British athletes are adapting to lockdown.

Pakistan says it shot down Indian drone in Kashmir region as troops engage in worst cross-border clashes in two years.

The appointment of Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour party will change the political landscape for the better.

Iraq’s President Barham Salih named intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi as prime minister-designate on Thursday, the third person tapped to lead the country in just 10 weeks. Iraq is struggling to replace a government that fell last...