Headlines- As attacks on shipping continue, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims that an oil tanker "violating regulations" caught fire after striking a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Two troops have died in a helicopter crash in Najran, Saudi Arabia, according to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, which also claims to have downed more drones close to Riyadh.
- After riots, looting, and arson during cost-of-living protests, nearly 2,400 people were detained throughout France.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has received the "complete and total" support of US President Donald Trump.
- Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, denounced rioting during cost-of-living protests on Sunday and expressed support for law enforcement after clashes in multiple cities.
- Eight cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Kenya as of Sunday, according to the country's Health Ministry.
- After a fatal fire at a Canadian military base on Sunday, 39 people were admitted to the hospital, at least 19 of whom were in critical condition.
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Weekend Reports
Churchgoers and most clerics wore face masks as they attended an Orthodox Easter Vigil at the Trinity Cathedral in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi…An Orthodox priest used a microphone to involve a neighborhood in an Easter Vigil. People stood in their windows with candles lit to the sound of litanies and church bells in the city of Cluj-Napoca on the night of April 18-19
Pandemic Reality – Celebrating А Wedding...
The lockdown and quarantine brought by the rapid spread of the coronavirus has changed the lives of millions of people worldwide. Flights and hotels were canceled, together with exhibits, performances and moves.But a California couple decided that the pandemic can’t make them postpone their wedding
Living In A Hollywood Disaster Movie...
From alien invasions and climate catastrophes to pandemics, Hollywood has made countless disaster movies over the years. During this real life pandemic, VOA Los Angeles correspondent Elizabeth Lee talks about how fictional Hollywood films and reality these days are starting to blur
The Internet: A Window into Sanity...
For people around the world who are living under a stay-at-home mandate during the pandemic, the internet has created a sense of normalcy during extraordinary times
Virtual Pharmacies Aim to Ease South...
South Africa’s 21-day lockdown presents an unusual challenge for a nation with the world’s highest burden of HIV. In order to remain healthy, those on antiretrovirals need to venture out of their homes for their lifesaving medication — a move that puts them at greater risk of contracting the highly infectious coronavirus.
COVID-19: Video Reports
People gathered for Friday prayers at mosques in Pakistan’s capital, defying an official ban on gatherings to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Several mosques across Islamabad were open on April 17 and clerics delivered sermons after religious leaders and authorities failed to reach a consensus on exemptions for the government’s COVID-19 measures..Kazakhstan is urgently building three hospitals as part of measures connected to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Central Asian nation. The construction company said the first two would be ready next week
COVID And Pregnant Women
For most Americans, quarantine means staying at home as much as possible and waiting, but pregnant women have bigger problems – can the virus be transmitted from mother to a new baby? Can infected mothers breastfeed? How to keep the new baby safe?
Venezuela’s Main Public Hospital is in...
countries around the world cope with the coronavirus outbreak, Venezuela is among some of the nations that is especially unprepared to deal with the potentially devasting impact of the pandemic. Medical staff say their hospital isn’t prepared, while the mother of a sick toddler is scared for her baby
Peshawar Residents Trust Age-Old Herbal Treatments...
An outbreak of dengue fever last year in 1Pakistan, in which 75 people died and tens of thousands of others were infected, prompted an age-old debate in the country over whether herbal treatments are more effective than modern medicine. With the coronavirus now spreading in Pakistan, VOA’s Nazar ul Islam spoke to residents and doctors in Peshawar
‘Believers Can Catch It Too’: Taliban...
RFE/RL gained exclusive access to a makeshift clinic west of Kabul in an area controlled for years by Taliban militants. Despite past suspicions about health workers dealing with epidemics like polio, some insurgents appear to be taking the threat from COVID-19 seriously