Lori Hinnant

Production personnel perform a visual inspection of filled vaccine vials inside the Incepta plant on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh Saturday Feb. 13, 2021. In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. Yet the factory is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

COVID-19 vaccine: Countries call on drug companies to share know-how

March 1, 2021 at 8:56 a.m.

In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It...

World watches U.S. chaos with shock, dismay and some mockery

January 7, 2021 at 10:06 a.m.

As the world watched American institutions shaken to the core by an angry mob, officials and ordinary citizens wondered: How fragile is democracy, and how much stress could their own...

Shock, sympathy, criticism: The world reacts as Donald Trump announces he has COVID-19

October 2, 2020 at 5:26 a.m.

News that the world’s most powerful man was infected with the world’s most notorious disease drew instant reactions of shock, sympathy, undisguised glee and, of course, the ever-present outrage and...

Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to people in poverty faces shortage of funding, resources

October 1, 2020 at 12:46 p.m.

An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines themselves — and is running into...

Marie Lithard, right, and her neighboor ...

Mass coronavirus testing in French nursing home seeks to combat loneliness

April 19, 2020 at 11:06 a.m.

Some were born in this warren of small rooms in what used to be a hospital, dating to the 17th century. Many are likely to die here. And all are...

Medical workers wearing equipment to protect ...

Faint glimmers of hope as coronavirus deaths appear to be holding

April 6, 2020 at 12:30 p.m.

The steep rise in coronavirus deaths in New York seems to be leveling off in a possible sign that social distancing is working in the most lethal hot spot in...

Amid coronavirus pandemic, how would overwhelmed hospitals decide who to treat first?

March 30, 2020 at 7:44 a.m.

A nurse with asthma, a grandfather with cancer and a homeless man with no known family are wracked with coronavirus-induced fevers. They are struggling to breathe, and a ventilator could...

Over 1.5 billion globally asked to stay home to escape coronavirus

March 23, 2020 at 9:54 a.m.

The hunt for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies consumed the U.S. and Europe, as more than 1.5 billion people 鈥� one-fifth of the world's population 鈥� were urged or...

Few ready to pay to rebuild Iraq after Islamic State defeat

December 28, 2017 at 10:34 p.m.

The Iraqi military and U.S.-led coalition succeeded in uprooting the Islamic State group across the country, but the cost of victory is nearly incalculable.

Escaping with Islamic State’s secrets, he hid one of his own

December 7, 2017 at 9:54 a.m.

He would wander the streets of occupied Mosul by day, chatting with shopkeepers and Islamic State fighters, visiting friends who worked at the hospital, swapping scraps of information. He grew...

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