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IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut says it has its first case of COVID-19. The territory's chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, says the case was detected in the community of Pond Inlet. "We di...

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to ...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:45 a.m. Ontario is reporting 459 new COVID-19 cases today, and 86 more deaths - the largest daily death toll ...

TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...

NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...

LONDON - The British government has acknowledged that it may miss its self-imposed goal of conducting 100,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of Thursday. But officials insisted that the U.K. i...

WASHINGTON - The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions. States need to proceed carefully as t...

NEW YORK - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits because of the coronavirus has soared past 30 million, worsening a crisis unmatched since the 1930s and turning up the pressure on p...

MONTREAL - The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre says it will soon conduct the first Canadian test of a robot that uses ultraviolet light to disinfect. The Montreal instit...

NEW YORK - It's a stunning sound, emerging amid the clanging and the whooping and the banging and the honking at 7 p.m. each night as New Yorkers cheer front-line workers: the velvety, buttery bariton...