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The US can learn from free tuition policies implemented in other countries, particularly in Europe. Still, free tuition alone won’t close the inequality gap in higher education.

Prospects for multilateral diplomacy seem increasingly dim as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic — and that's a problem, says Susan Rice, former national security adviser and US ambassador to the UN.

As one of the world's biggest users of plastic, China recently unveiled a major plan to phase out single-use plastics across the country.

Numerous arts institutions are finding creative ways to display their works while their physical doors are closed.

More than 9,300 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the outbreak in late December, but Africa has been one of the last continents to be touched by the virus, and so far, spared from the worst of it.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has COVID-19 under control. But a recent EU document says Russian media have deployed a "significant disinformation campaign" against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus.

Qasim Rashid has a personal policy of engaging with people who send him hateful messages.

Restrictions are changing by the hour. But a week ago today, some people in the Italian city were still out and about while also maintaining a social distance.

When will life get back to normal? Can our collective actions stop the global march of the virus? The World's host Marco Werman posed those questions to Dr. Michael Mina, an infectious disease specialist at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

You may know Mr. Motivator from his hit '90s exercise routines — or his neon spandex. Now he's offering some quick tips on staying fit, even under quarantine.

Mexico’s approach is much less stringent than those of its Central American neighbors, which have virtually closed their borders despite reporting only a handful of cases.

British Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran in 2016 under charges of espionage. Now she's been furloughed as Iran hopes to ease the transmission of COVID-19 among its prison population.

Several relief organizations have announced the elimination of non-critical missions to limit staff exposure to the virus.

Across the nation, Latino voters have tended to favor Democratic candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. That’s not always the case in Florida, where the Latino community is very diverse and tends to lean more conservative.

Many are collaborating across national borders and the public and private sectors to speed the process.

There should have been corned beef, bagpipe music and parades, but instead, pubs and restaurants are closed down as countries deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac is trying to make St. Patrick's Day special for those stuck at home.

There are urgent calls from immigrant and civil rights organizations for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release the most vulnerable immigrant detainees — at least — for health safety reasons amid the continued spread of the novel coronavirus.

Denmark's government is counting on most Danes to react to widespread closures with an attitude of social solidarity.

Ali, an 18-year-old from Syria, arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos after Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan announced he would open the border to Europe. Now, he is stuck in a makeshift camp.

Among the public in places such as Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan, surgical masks are widely believed to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

For most asylum-seekers stranded in Lesbos, the future is uncertain — even more so now because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Daily worship has changed at the Western Wall and other holy sites throughout the city.

Multilateral diplomacy could be key in stemming the spread of the outbreak of the coronavirus says Nicholas Burns, former United States ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The US lags behind nearly all other countries when it comes to sick leave. And when sick people come to work, viruses are harder to contain.

His latest routine, Bassem Youssef skewers Egypt’s recently deceased former strongman, Hosni Mubarak.

Almost everything Lebanon consumes is imported — and COVID-19 has struck as Lebanon slides deeper into an already bad financial crisis brought on by government corruption and mismanagement.

As the coronavirus pandemic sharply curbs travel, the aviation industry is facing the "worst crisis" since 9/11.

Seline Frederiksz, whose son died aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, said speaking up at the trial is "one of the last things that I can do" for the victims.

Epidemiology professor Dr. Michael Mina says better coordination among various parties in the US health system is "really what is needed if we want to keep everyone in this country safe."

An estimated 250,000 US-born children nationwide have parents in the country under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. A lawsuit on whether the Trump administration can end DACA is before the US Supreme Court.

The lawsuit asks that the Commission on Unalienable Rights be folded, that its records be made public, and that the Trump administration be barred from taking recommendations from the body.

Despite medical experts and the WHO raising the alarm over coronavirus, world leaders — particularly in the Western world — must do more to show they are taking the threat seriously, says epidemiologist Marcel Salathé.

The coronavirus outbreak has led to a spate of cancelations and school closures, and it's causing logistical and financial challenges, especially for the more than 1 million international students enrolled in schools in the US.

Residents don’t have access to their normal support networks.

Many Russians in the far north have been waiting for more than two decades to be resettled in lower latitudes. They are caught between Moscow's grand plans for Arctic development and an exodus of aging Soviet workers longing to see flowers rather than blizzards in the springtime.

This California family is finally free to leave their apartment after six weeks indoors in China. Monica Campbell has an update on what those first few days of freedom felt like to the family.

The government has told all Italians to stay at home and avoid non-essential travel until April 3, radically widening steps already taken in much of the wealthy north, which is the epicenter of the spreading contagion. Italy's Lombardy region in the north of the country, where Stefano Magnone works as a surgeon at the Papa Giovanni 23rd hospital, has been the hardest hit. Magnone spoke with The World's Marco Werman.

Officials haven't confirmed the cause of the conflagration, but the blaze took place amid increasing tensions over the migrant situation on the island.

Your hands connect you to the world. During a virus outbreak, that’s not a good thing.

In the border village of Kastanies, interactions with the Turkish neighbors are a fact of daily life. Relations are friendly. But the recent political standoff between Greece and Turkey has changed everything.

Faced with Europe's worst outbreak of the novel coronavirus, northern Italy is on lockdown following a governmental decree. The World speaks with Alessandro Vespignani, a researcher at Northeastern University, who models the spread of infectious diseases. He's been studying how China's early travel restrictions in Wuhan affected the spread of the virus worldwide.

The idea of women striking has existed for years in different parts of the world, but this year in Mexico, it’s taken on a new life with the horrific, back-to-back murders of a young woman and a 7-year-old girl.

The campaign has pushed more than a dozen political leaders out of restaurants, malls and other venues in the past few months.

Tens of thousands of migrants have been trying to get into Greece since late February when Turkey said it would no longer stop them from leaving. On Friday, Greek and Turkish security forces used tear gas to disperse the crowds near the Kastanies-Pazarkule border crossing.

Three nurses in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca became viral heroes in the fight against the coronavirus thanks to a video they made in 2016 on the correct way to wash one's hands.

Two neighboring Embassy Row properties in Washington, DC, have been boarded up for years. The buildings are caught in a unique sort of real estate limbo as diplomatic relations between the US and Iran are suspended. But if walls could talk, wild parties might be on the tip of their tongues.

While fake news is a global problem, it is especially so in Nigeria, where false information on social media can quickly end up on legitimate news websites.

Vietnamese pop star Mai Khoi sings about censorship and human rights. It's gotten her in trouble with the authorities in Vietnam.