US & Canada

One Canadian military member was killed and five others are still missing after a helicopter crashed in international waters between Greece and Italy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Thursday. The helicopter is said to have been carrying four Royal Canadian Air Force members and two Royal Canadian Navy members …

A majority of Americans think that US President Donald Trump is doing a poor job tackling the coronavirus pandemic. In a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, 55% of Americans said that they disapproved of the president’s handling of the outbreak. This shows an increase in disapproval, as in their previous poll …

Donald Trump was up late on Twitter again on Wednesday night continuing to stew over negative press coverage of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, attacking TV news anchors Brian Williams, Don Lemon and Joe Scarborough, saying of the former he “wouldn’t know the truth if it was nailed …

The city of New York delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles, a Reuters eyewitness said. The eyewitness saw bodies in a U-Haul van and said two vans and a truck were parked outside …

Donald Trump has said the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire on Thursday, even as the number of Americans who have died of coronavirus surpassed 60,000. The country has recorded 60,207 deaths from coronavirus, and 1,030,487 cases of the virus have been …

The American police announced the arrest of a man who shot the headquarters of the Cuban embassy in Washington, DC. The officer refused to reveal the name of the shooter, his motives and the number of bullets he fired, expressing his conviction that no human casualties were caused by the …

As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum. In an April 2 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil …

Donald Trump on Wednesday backed away from a vow made less than 24 hours earlier that the United States “very soon” would be able to test up to 5m people per day for coronavirus, falsely contending he never uttered those words. “Right now, they’re testing about 200,000 per day. So …

US President Donald Trump has mocked a Palestinian-American lawmaker’s bid for the White House in the 2020 presidential election. Representative Justin Amash, the first Republican in Congress who supported the impeachment of President Trump and had to leave the party, launched a website announcing the exploratory committee for a Libertarian …

In violation and blatant interference in the internal affairs of Iraq, the US Secretary of State stated that. Iraqi leaders must put aside a sectarian quota system and make compromises to help the formation of a government and help the bilateral relationship between Washington and Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of State …

In a webinar event hosted by the Economic Club of Washington, DC, Trump administration coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci told an online audience that the US should prepare for the virus to return and hit hard later this year. However, he also said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a vaccine …

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States remains worried about laboratories in China and the world needs to get to the bottom of how the novel coronavirus began. “I can tell you there were real concerns about the labs inside of China,” Pompeo said in …

A top New York City doctor who was on the front line of the US fight against coronavirus has taken her own life. Dr. Lorna Breen, who was medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died of self-inflicted injuries on Sunday, police said. The …

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will send medical gear including protective suits and masks to the United States on Tuesday to help its efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak. “At a time when even developed countries are asking for Turkey’s support, we have offered our support to …

The state of New York on Monday canceled its presidential primary, which had already been delayed from late April to June 23, over concerns voting was an unnecessary risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With former Vice President Joe Biden the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, Douglas Kellner, one of two of …

White House pauses daily briefings after the US president on Thursday suggested injecting disinfectant to kill Covid-19 The White House canceled a planned Monday afternoon coronavirus task force briefing, the third consecutive day Donald Trump will not appear for what had become his daily – and chaotic – Covid-19 press …

New York could begin reopening some manufacturing and construction projects in the state on 15 May following stringent quarantine measures in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the expiration date for governor Andrew Cuomo’s statewide order that has shuttered nonessential business across New York as it became the global …

U.S. House Of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Joe Biden for president, according to a video statement released by her on Monday. Pelosi’s endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president follows that of U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, former president Barack Obama and former …

A spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson has refused to rule out the possibility that stringent social distancing measures aimed at controlling the spread of Covid-19 could remain in place until next year. Asked about the prospect of some lockdown measures lasting into 2021 during a press briefing on Thursday, …

The Health Administration of Canada has warned against the use of malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, to prevent or treat coronavirus disease, stressing that these two drugs may cause serious side effects, including serious heart rhythm problems. She advised not to use these two drugs except on the prescription of …