In a surprisingly high turnout, millions of South Korean voters wore masks and moved slowly between lines of tape at polling stations on Wednesday to elect lawmakers in the shadow of the spreading coronavirus. The election was closely watched around the world as one of the first nationwide votes since the epidemic began. The coronavirus…

Donald Trump’s chances of being elected to a second term as president of the United States may now hinge on what version of history most American voters believe when it comes to the coronavirus. It’s going to be a bitter fight. His lawyers are already involved. They are suing a television station in a key…

China is getting its own “Chornobyl moment” due to Beijing’s attempts to hide and distort key scientific data on the COVID-19 pandemic and its crackdown on whistleblowers questioning the government’s response to the outbreak, say the authors of an open letter published Tuesday. The letter, signed by more than 100 experts, politicians and activists, compares China’s response to the…

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has directed a halt to U.S. payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and China. Trump said at a White House news conference on Tuesday the outbreak could have been contained at its source and spared lives had the UN health agency…

Barack Obama has endorsed his former vice-president and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden for president of the United States. “Joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery,” Obama said in a statement. “And I know he’ll surround himself…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday he would not abide by any order from U.S. President Donald Trump to reopen his state in an unsafe manner during the coronavirus outbreak. Trump said on Monday he believed the president has “total authority” over states in the U.S. coronavirus response, a stance that is not supported by…