The top US health body has issued new guidelines on the reopening of schools, clearly weighting its recommendations in favor of having students return to their classrooms. The updated advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was posted Thursday night, and came a few weeks after the agency was asked to change […]

China accused “certain countries” of spreading disinformation in a video call Friday with Russia, as the two nations sought a closer alliance while relations continue to deteriorate between Beijing and Washington. The remarks come as China and the US have been caught in an escalating tit-for-tat dispute that spans media, territorial sovereignty, diplomacy, human rights, […]

Mali announced Friday that it would shortly reopen its air and land borders after a months-long closure aimed at stemming coronavirus infections. In a statement, the government said air borders, closed on March 18, would open again on Saturday and land borders, closed on March 26, from July 31. Normal working hours of 8 a.m. […]

A man was arrested for pointing a gun at a fellow shopper who asked him to wear a mask because of the coronavirus pandemic at a Walmart store in Florida, police in the US state said. Vincent Scavetta, 28, was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and improper exhibition of a firearm, the […]

Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has died age 81 in a Dar es Salaam hospital, the government announced Friday. Mkapa was third Tanzanian president after independence from Britain in 1962 and ruled for two terms from 1995 to 2005. “I’m saddened by the death of the third president of Tanzania and that is a big […]