LONDON, (Reuters) – Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said today.
LONDON, (Reuters) – BP will cut about 15% of its workforce in response to the coronavirus crisis and as part of Chief Executive Bernard Looney’s plan to shift the oil and gas major to renewable energy, it said today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A mounting wave of protests demanding police reform after the killing of a black man in Minneapolis swept across the United States yesterday, building on the momentum of huge demonstrations across the country the day before.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Venezuelans queued up in miles-long lines to try to fill their cars with subsidized gasoline over the weekend, a week after President Nicolas Maduro launched a new dual-price system aimed at easing an acute fuel shortage.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, joining a growing chorus of Republicans and military leaders criticizing Republican President Donald Trump amid nationwide protests.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. protests sparked by George Floyd’s fatal encounter last month with Minneapolis police crossed a new threshold as weekend rallies demanding racial justice stretched from Washington, D.C.,
(Reuters) – Brazil removed from public view months of data on its COVID-19 epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world’s second-largest coronavirus outbreak.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington and other U.S.
Suriname’s electoral authorities on Thursday finally announced preliminary results from the May 25 elections won by opposition parties, which on Friday accused the government of Desi Bouterse of stymieing efforts to seat a new legislature, according to the Associated Press (AP).
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday defended his government’s move to partially withhold official data on the scale of the world’s second-largest coronavirus outbreak.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has drawn a battle line right up to the White House.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government-friendly Supreme Court yesterday said the opposition-held congress had not named rectors to the South American country’s electoral authority in time, a move denounced by the opposition as an attempt to derail election plans.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – A wedding party contributed to a new surge in coronavirus infections in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday but insisted the country had no option but to keep its economy open despite warnings of a second wave of the epidemic.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 400,000 people worldwide.
BEUNOS AIRES (Reuters) – A new Amazon Prime Video series starting this week called “El Presidente” casts a satirical look at South American football’s dirty dealings through the eyes of deceased former Argentine football boss Julio Grondona.
(Reuters) – Actress Cate Blanchett suffered an accident with a chainsaw during the coronavirus lockdown with her family, she revealed during a podcast.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artefacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianity’s birth.
Suriname’s electoral authorities on Thursday finally announced preliminary results from the May 25 elections won by opposition parties, which on Friday accused the government of Desi Bouterse of stymieing efforts to seat a new legislature, according to the Associated Press (AP).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Prominent Democratic politicians yesterday embraced the cause of U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel yesterday over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
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