US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he is halting funding to the World Health Organization while his administration reviews the group’s handling of the coronavirus, accusing it of bungling the response and failing to communicate the disease’s threat. The move follows weeks of Trump’s escalating attacks on the ...
The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 120,013 on Tuesday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than 1,923,390 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of ...
