Scott Neuman

An extreme weather system left at least six people dead in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, which saw several deadly tornadoes touch down and damage buildings Wednesday evening.

Earlier this month, China — the original epicenter of the pandemic but which later saw daily new domestic cases fall to zero — has in recent weeks seen a wave of infections arriving from Russia.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police originally reported at least 16 dead after Saturday's attacks, in which the assailant shot victims at multiple locations and then set fire to the crime scenes.

The Hong Kong-based airline, which is flying just 3% of its schedule in the wake of the pandemic, will lay off nearly 300 employees in New York, San Francisco and LA.

The revised figures from Wuhan, the city that was the original epicenter of the outbreak, add 1,290 deaths, bringing the total for the city to 3,869.

China's economy contracted by 6.8% in the first three months of 2020 from the same period a year ago — its biggest drop since 1992.

The refugees, mostly women and children described by Bangladeshi officials as "starving," were intercepted after attempting to make landfall.

U.S. officials say nearly a dozen small craft from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps harassed U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships conducting exercises in the Persian Gulf.

The country's election commission said in a statement Monday that it had been forced to postpone the election, originally scheduled for May 17, to July 5 due to the ongoing pandemic.

A month ago, Vladimir Putin said the outbreak in Russia was "under control," but in a teleconference with health officials on Monday he acknowledged the situation was changing "not for the better."

Gov. Ron DeSantis says he wants to increase the number of National Guard personnel on "strike teams" that have been sent to long-term care facilities in the state to identify COVID-19 cases.

The move allows some businesses that can't operate remotely to reopen, even as most citizens remain under stay-at-home orders. But critics warn it may be too soon to let up.

Officials said Monday that mainland China had 169 new confirmed cases, 98 of which were described as "imported." It was the largest increase since March 6.

Hokkaido, which saw the country's highest incidence of coronavirus as the pandemic first swept through Asia, had been returning to normal until a sudden recent spike in cases.

Mississippi and Louisiana were hardest hit by the storms that were part of a band of severe weather stretching across the entire southeast of the country.

Officials said Thursday that the country had nearly 1,500 new cases in a single day with 13 new deaths from COVID-19. The news came as the Kremlin extended a national "non-working week."

More than 100 prisoners at Monroe Correctional Complex's minimum-security unit set off fire extinguishers in protest after six fellow inmates were diagnosed with COVID-19 in recent days.

France's armed services ministry said in a statment that about 40 sailors aboard the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle were under "close medical observation" after showing symptoms.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said, "I'm confident he'll pull through." Meanwhile, the U.K. on Tuesday set a new high for COVID-19 deaths — with 786.

The former Vatican treasurer, who had been the highest-ranking Roman Catholic cleric ever found guilty of sexual abuse, was ordered released from prison, where he was serving a six-year sentence.