TORONTO, (Reuters) – Ontario will ease coronavirus restrictions further in most regions excluding Toronto on July 17, moving to stage three of reopening in Canada’s most populous province, Premier Doug Ford said yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s new immigration system will provide faster and cheaper visas for skilled health and social care workers, the government announced today, setting out further details of the points-based system that will come into effect in January.
(Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE said today two of their experimental coronavirus vaccines received ‘fast track’ designation from the U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Companies around the world will take on as much as $1 trillion of new debt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coronavirus, a new study of 900 top firms has estimated.
(Reuters) – Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours yesterday, as the Trump administration renewed its push for schools to reopen and anti-mask protests were planned in Michigan and Missouri.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Revered Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter-in-law and granddaughter have joined him and his son in testing positive for COVID-19, the family said yesterday, in one of the highest-profile cases of the pandemic sweeping India.
WARSAW, (Reuters) – Incumbent Andrzej Duda’s lead in Poland’s presidential election widened further, an updated late poll showed yesterday, a result, which while still uncertain, could have profound implications for Warsaw’s relations with the European Union.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel said today that around 45 tonnes of aviation fuel had leaked from its pipeline in the Arctic.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel said today that around 45 tonnes of aviation fuel had leaked from its pipeline in the Arctic.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, with Chief Justice Roberts leading the way, has distinctly staked out its independence from President Donald Trump by delivering a series of setbacks to him and his administration in pivotal cases.
SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Bosnians commemorated yesterday the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, marking the 25th anniversary of killings that shocked the world and have stood out as Europe’s only atrocity since World War Two constituting genocide.
BETHESDA, Md., (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, who has avoided wearing a mask in public even as the coronavirus pandemic spread, donned one yesterday at a military medical facility outside Washington where he was to meet with wounded soldiers and front-line health-care workers.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Amitabh Bachchan, one of India’s best known movie stars, has tested positive for COVID-19 together with his actor son Abhishek Bachchan, they said late yesterday.
BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma, (Reuters) – District Court Judge Curtis DeLapp was renowned for his hair-trigger temper.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – North American Scrabble competitors will no longer be able to play racist and homophobic slurs from the “N-word” to “bumboy” and “poofs”, the head of the players’ association has said, in an 11th-hour ruling that went against his own advisory board.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Supercomputer-driven models simulated in Japan suggested that operating commuter trains with windows open and limiting the number of passengers may help reduce the risk of coronavirus infections, as scientists warn of airborne spread of the virus.
LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists warned on Wednesday of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested COVID-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New genetic research shows that there was mingling between ancient native peoples from Polynesia and South America, revealing a single episode of interbreeding roughly 800 years ago after an epic transoceanic journey.
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.
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