Asked why he was putting it into action now, Trump told reporters it would be used to ensure that US states could get masks and other equipment needed to fight the virus.

Usually, an international student visa only allows for one online course. So, students panicked as colleges announced that classes were moving online.

In Spain, rural towns have emptied over the past few decades as young people moved to the cities for jobs and university degrees. But in recent days, this mass exodus has been reversed: Many of those with family or second homes in the countryside have fled big cities to be closer to relatives or to have more space while they’re quarantined.

Prospects for multilateral diplomacy seem increasingly dim as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic — and that's a problem, says Susan Rice, former national security adviser and US ambassador to the UN.

More than 9,300 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the outbreak in late December, but Africa has been one of the last continents to be touched by the virus, and so far, spared from the worst of it.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has COVID-19 under control. But a recent EU document says Russian media have deployed a "significant disinformation campaign" against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus.

Mexico’s approach is much less stringent than those of its Central American neighbors, which have virtually closed their borders despite reporting only a handful of cases.

Restrictions are changing by the hour. But a week ago today, some people in the Italian city were still out and about while also maintaining a social distance.

When will life get back to normal? Can our collective actions stop the global march of the virus? The World's host Marco Werman posed those questions to Dr. Michael Mina, an infectious disease specialist at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

British Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran in 2016 under charges of espionage. Now she's been furloughed as Iran hopes to ease the transmission of COVID-19 among its prison population.