MANAUS/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Inmates at a prison in Manaus, a Brazilian city deep in the Amazon that has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, briefly took seven prison guards hostage yesterday, the local prison authority told Reuters.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Supreme Court judge issued an injunction yesterday suspending for 10 days a move by Brazil’s right-wing government to expel Venezuela’s 30 diplomats and consular staff.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A prison riot in the western Venezuelan state of Portuguesa has left at least 46 people dead and 60 injured, according to a rights group and an opposition lawmaker.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – There have been 4,970 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Brazil and 421 deaths over the last 24 hours, the health ministry said yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry is helping “Thomas and Friends” celebrate their 75th anniversary by introducing a special episode which features the cartoon trains as well as some members of the royal family.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States and Britain are among the countries worst hit by the coronavirus and have faced criticism for their handling of the pandemic.
LUSAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – To deal with drier conditions brought by a shifting climate, farmer Pamela Nyirenda last year shifted to growing drought-hardy cassava, among other new water-sipping crops such as groundnuts and cowpea.
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Companies are under growing scrutiny for how they treat their workers during the coronavirus crisis, but with health, safety and costs on the line, some may not know what steps to take.
(Reuters) – For a glimpse at how Disney recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, look no further than Shanghai, where the entertainment giant has staged a limited reopening of Shanghai Disney Resort.
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s film industry, purveyor of song-and-dance spectacles to millions, will take at least two years to recover financially from the coronavirus pandemic, which is threatening big-ticket projects, putting at risk tens of thousands of jobs.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Conservative groups advising the White House have issued an array of coronavirus economic reopening plans with a common theme – Americans should go back to work immediately to halt the economic and societal damage from prolonged lockdowns.
OUSTON, (Reuters) – Americans in about half of U.S. states, led by Texas and Georgia, began emerging yesterday from home confinement while California and New York held fast to business closures and other restrictions imposed in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp yesterday posted its first quarterly loss in three decades on plunging oil demand and collapsing prices, reporting a $610 million quarterly deficit after a nearly $3 billion inventory writedown.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday halted nearly 300 oil and gas leases on a large section of federal land in Montana that had been approved by an agency of the Interior Department and ordered the agency to conduct a thorough environmental analysis of the impact of fracking on drinking water.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden yesterday asked the Senate to find any documents tied to an allegation he sexually assaulted a former aide in 1993, after personally denying the accusation publicly for the first time.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said yesterday, calling it “counterproductive” to have individuals involved in the response testify.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp today posted its first quarterly loss in three decades on plunging oil demand and collapsing prices, reporting a $610 million quarterly deficit after a nearly $3 billion inventory writedown.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s coronavirus curve is flat but worrying trends are emerging, particularly outbreaks in vulnerable indigenous communities, the country’s top medical officer said yesterday.