RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rio de Janeiro has more than 640 deaths from coronavirus in its favelas, a new information dashboard showed on Thursday, part of an effort to combat underreporting of the disease in the city’s slums.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The “Batman” universe is expanding, with a TV series set in Gotham City’s police department that will explore corruption, streaming platform HBO Max said on Friday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Movie star Johnny Depp told London’s High Court on Friday that his ex-wife Amber Heard or her friend had defecated in their bed in what he described as a “fitting end to the relationship”.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Workers in nearly one in four member states of the United Nations are not legally protected from discrimination based on race and ethnicity, researchers said on Thursday, as global protests roar for racial justice.
(Reuters) – New cases of COVID-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia a mosque yesterday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two weeks, after a top court ruled the ancient building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police searched the office of an independent political pollster yesteday, 10 days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation that has sent a chill across the former British colony.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police searched the office of an independent political pollster today, 10 days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation that has sent a chill across the former British colony.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the global pandemic, a spokeswoman said today.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian firefighters have been seeding clouds to bring down rain over wildfires raging in Siberia, the authorities said today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s arguments for sweeping presidential immunity and ruled that a New York prosecutor can obtain his financial records but prevented – at least for now – Democratic-led House of Representatives committees from getting similar documents.
(Reuters) – More than 60,500 new COVID-19 infections were reported across the United States yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a one-day record as weary Americans were told to take new precautions and the pandemic becomes increasingly politicized.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Defying warnings that to seek out Donald Trump was to court disaster, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador instead emerged from their first meeting as a “cherished friend” of his U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on the highest ranking Chinese official yet targeted over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority, a move likely to further ratchet up tensions between Washington and Beijing.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two of the biggest names on the British high street said they would cut more than 5,000 jobs yesterday after conceding that customers were unlikely to return to their old ways after the COVID-19 crisis upended retail.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court today firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s argument for sweeping presidential immunity and ruled that a New York prosecutor can obtain his financial records but prevented – at least for now – Democratic-led House of Representatives committees from getting similar documents.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two of the biggest names on the British high street said they would cut more than 5,000 jobs today after conceding that customers were unlikely to return to their old ways after the COVID-19 crisis upended retail.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New Jersey adopted a stringent coronavirus face-mask order yesterday, and New York City unveiled a plan to allow public school students back into classrooms for just two or three days a week, as newly confirmed U.S.
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc yesterday removed 50 personal and professional pages connected to U.S.
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