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UN: US hasn’t shared evidence on alleged coronavirus origin

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, May 18, 2018. The WHO Director-General answered questions ahead of the World Health Assembly and following the meeting of an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

WHO: No U.S. evidence on Wuhan laboratory as coronavirus origin

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A woman waves to a city worker dressed in a hazmat suit as he disinfects the streets in her neighborhood as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Coronavirus ‘second wave’ set for Southern Hemisphere preview

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting about the coronavirus with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump plans action against China and WHO for failing to stop spread of the coronavirus

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., speaks during the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Venezuela at Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Eliot Engel launches inquiry into Donald Trump’s WHO funding freeze

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) **FILE**

WHO walks back ‘no evidence’ claim on coronavirus immunity from reinfection

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 16, 2020 file photo, medical staff tend to a patient in the emergency COVID-19 ward at the San Carlo Hospital in Milan, Italy. As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country. By contrast, Lombardy’s front-line doctors and nurses are being hailed as heroes for risking their lives to treat the sick under extraordinary levels of stress, exhaustion, isolation and fear. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)

Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Illustration on the viral effect of AOC by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her communist buddies embrace a COVID-19 world

By Robert Knight

WHO: ‘No evidence’ recovered COVID-19 patients are immune from repeat infection

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, health officials vaccine residents of the Malawi village of Tomali, where young children become test subjects for the world's first vaccine against malaria. Babies in three African nations are getting the first and only vaccine for malaria in a pilot program. World health officials want to see how well the vaccine works in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya before recommending its wider use. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Fight against malaria could be set back 20 years, WHO warns

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Nations back UN plan to speed wide rollout of COVID response

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) **FILE**

Dems urge Trump ‘in strongest possible terms’ to restore funding to WHO

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A woman opens her mouth for the heath worker to collect a sample for coronavirus testing during the screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19 at Lenasia South, south Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Africa’s 43% jump in virus cases in 1 week worries experts

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

WHO chief brushes off resignation calls, appeals for US aid

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, attends a video conference call with French virologist and President of the Research and Expertise Analysis Committee (Comite Analyse Recherche et Expertise, CARE) Francoise Barre-Sinoussi on ongoing efforts to accelerate the development and access to vaccine and treatment against the coronavirus at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, April 16, 2020. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

France urges Australia to hold off on launching global investigation into origins of coronavirus

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

U.S. preparing ‘substantial’ aid package to help Yemen in coronavirus fight

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This photo provided on April 12, 2020, by the Syrian American Medical Society, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a nurse checking a man for fever and other symptoms as part of the effort to contain and trace the coronavirus, in a tent outside Idlib Central Hospital, Idlib, northern Syria. Nine years of war have broken Syria into three rival parts, and each is struggling to cope with a common enemy that knows no conflict lines. Unable to work together, their divisions are hurting frantic efforts to mobilize against the coronavirus in a country where the health sector is already devastated by war. (Syrian American Medical Society via AP)

Syria’s divisions damage efforts to mobilize against virus

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

WHO head warns worst of virus is still ahead

Associated Press

In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) **FILE**

World Health Organization peddled Chinese Communist Party’s lies

By Robert Knight

A member of a non-governmental aid organization measures temperature as a preventive measure for coronavirus in the town of Kafr Takharim, Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria virus death traced to Kurdish-run northeast region

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press