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Democrat Joe Biden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's refusal to take key steps to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, like instituting national guidelines on social distancing and testing, should disqualify him for the presidency.

Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged Wednesday to keep coronavirus infections under control and kickstart an economy in recession, as Shinzo Abe left office after a record-breaking tenure.

Coronavirus-ravaged economies across the Asia Pacific will make a "swoosh-shaped" recovery next year, the Asian Development Bank forecast Tuesday, but it warned that further restrictions to combat the contagion could derail the region's…

The government will roll out its National Food Policy (NFP) by October even as it continues to address the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, according to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles.

A consultant in the office of House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano is the latest staff member to test positive for the coronavirus, an official said on Friday.

After more than 45 years washing cars in Kuwait to make ends meet, Egyptian Marzouq Mohammed will soon be kicked out of the country as economic woes and coronavirus stoke anti-foreigner sentiment.

Nearly 50 years after Watergate, Bob Woodward is still breaking front page news and rattling US presidents.

President Donald Trump on Thursday denied lying to Americans about the severity of the coronavirus after a bombshell new book by journalist Bob Woodward revealed that he deliberately downplayed the crisis.

Joe Biden courted working class voters in hotly contested Michigan Wednesday as he warned that President Donald Trump's "negligence" in handling the coronavirus pandemic plunged the nation into recession.

Malacañang on Tuesday welcomed a New York Times report that the new cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the Philippines are “lower and staying low” over the past week.

Saudi King Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Monday the possible joint production of a Russian coronavirus vaccine, the Kremlin said.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Camilo Pancratius Cascolan, has vowed a tougher and more pro-active approach against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), illegal drugs, and insurgency threats.

China has refused to renew the press cards of several journalists working for US companies, a foreign media association said Monday, as Beijing kicks back against the treatment of its reporters in America.

The Philippines has flattened the coronavirus (Covid-19) curve, according to President Rodrigo Duterte, citing recent scientific studies.

Malacañang on Monday again defended the move to fill Manila Bay with artificial white sand, clarifying that the budget for the project was allocated before the coronavirus (Covid-19) became a pandemic.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is self-isolating at home after his security detail tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19).

The House of Representatives on Sunday reported two new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 66.

The government aims to flatten the curve of infections from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) this month, National Task Force Against Covid-19 chairman and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said.

MANILA – The government is determined to flatten the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) curve this September, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Sunday.

With less than two months until the US elections, the race for the White House -- long pushed to the margins by the coronavirus pandemic -- has finally taken off: a good time for AFP to make a weekly list of offbeat moments on the campaign…