The European Union could implement its massive coronavirus stimulus plan without Hungary and Poland, which are vetoing its budget, top EU officials have said.
Israel has charged past the U.S. and New Zealand to emerge as the world's best place to be a woman entrepreneur after Covid-19 shook up the annual rankings.
Leaders around the world have sent their best wishes to President Trump and first lady Melania Trump after the couple tested positive for the coronavirus.
China was the most enthusiastic country with 97% of respondents indicating they would be vaccinated, while Russia was the least willing with only 54% interested to do so.
The withdrawal of 9,500 U.S. service members resurfaces the Trump administration's claims that Germany has been "delinquent in their payments" to NATO.
"It is quite clear that we don't, as a society, take these mitigation measures seriously," Dr. Greg Poland, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic tells CNBC Make It.
The White House will host Poland's President Andrzej Duda this week in what will be the first visit by a foreign leader since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Union's agency for disease control has said that the U.K. is among five countries in the region that are still not seeing a decline in new coronavirus cases.
Friday prayers in Iran have been canceled across all provincial capitals amid the country's growing coronavirus outbreak, state television said, according to an AP report.