With the rapid spread of the virus, Brussels is fumbling, nations are diverging, populists are salivating and the U.S. is erecting barriers against allies.
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Trump’s Travel Ban Leaves Americans in Europe Scrambling to Get Home
With little clarity on the rules of the 30-day suspension set to take effect on Friday, many are feeling stranded and confused.
Merkel Gives Germans a Hard Truth About the Coronavirus
The famously no-nonsense chancellor, keeping to form, braced Germany for an epidemic that may reach extraordinary scale.
A Fumbled Global Response to the Virus in a Leadership Void
While world leaders are at last speaking out about the gravity of the pandemic, their voices are less a choir than a cacophony, with the United States absent from its traditional conductor role.
Coronavirus Live Updates: China’s Xi Jinping Visits Outbreak’s Center in Sign of Confidence
As Italy restricted travel across the country, Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, visited Wuhan, the city where the global outbreak began. China signaled that it would begin easing some travel restrictions around Wuhan.
U.S. Cases of Coronavirus Surpass 1,000; British Health Minister Is Infected
President Trump has talked with Senate leaders about cutting business taxes and taking other steps to soften the virus’s economic impact.
A Secret Accord With the Taliban: When and How the U.S. Would Leave Afghanistan
The Taliban have read the secret annexes of the recently signed peace deal. But most Americans haven’t, nor have many of their elected representatives.
CPAC Attendee Has the Coronavirus, Officials Say
The Conservative Political Action Conference was attended last week by President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials.
Boris Johnson Launches War on U.K.’s Own ‘Deep State’
A juicy boss-from-hell story illuminates the tensions between Britain’s radical new government and its solicitous but unyielding civil service.
Violence in India Threatens Its Global Ambitions
India is pushing for more clout globally, as the world’s largest democracy. But as its government takes an illiberal turn to Hindu nationalism, that premise is being questioned.