Shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak, France’s Lourdes Roman Catholic shrine on Sunday marked the start of “Holy Week”, an event that normally draws millions of pilgrims every year, with not a soul in sight. Its doors closed since March 17, for the first time in its history, the sanctuary in the southwest France is instead […]

United Airlines (UAL.O) said late Saturday it will drastically reduce flights to two New York City airports amid the coronavirus outbreak. United said starting Sunday it will go from 157 daily flights total at Newark and New York LaGuardia to just 17. Newark, the airline’s hub in the New York area, will drop from 139 […]

irus Sadiq Khan has reached out to commuters who are refusing to stay at home following the deaths of five London bus workers who tested positive for COVID-19. The mayor of the capital said he was ‘absolutely devastated’ following the coronavirus deaths. He tweeted a statement saying that ‘lives depend’ on people following Government rules […]

A man in central Russia shot and killed five people for talking noisily at night under his windows, investigators said Sunday. The shootings took place in the Ryazan region during stay-at-home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. A 32-year-old Russian man from the small town of Yelatma opened fire on a group […]

Israel detained the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Sunday over “illegal” activities, in at least the seventh time Adnan Ghaith has been arrested in less than 18 months. “Adnan Ghaith was detained this morning for Palestinian activity in Jerusalem, which is illegal,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. The Palestinian Authority (PA) official was arrested […]