Author: Reuters

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Postponing the Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic has turned a hoped-for year of triumphant celebration for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe into a … Read More

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria called on Tuesday for an immediate nationwide ceasefire across Syria to enable an “all-out-effort” to stamp out COVID-19. In a statement, … Read More

By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia is ramping up coronavirus tests in preparation for the “worst scenario”, as it grapples with Southeast Asia’s highest number of infections, a … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – France appealed on Tuesday to workers laid off by the coronavirus crisis to help farmers pick fruit and vegetables that will otherwise be left to rot in … Read More

By Colin Packham and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will close food outlets at shopping centers, place limits on weddings and funerals and ban overseas travel, the government said … Read More

WARSAW (Reuters) – New constraints that are being introduced in Poland due to coronavirus will not influence the presidential election scheduled for May 10, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on … Read More

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh will suspend the jail sentence of its ailing former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia and release her for a period of … Read More

By William James and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Britons on Monday to stay at home to halt the spread of coronavirus, imposing curbs on … Read More

By Gram Slattery and Rodrigo Viga Gaier MIGUEL PEREIRA, Brazil (Reuters) – Last Monday, housekeeper Cleonice Gonçalves suddenly fell ill while working at an apartment in Leblon, an exclusive neighborhood … Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s decision-making process is being sorely tested by video conferencing during the coronavirus pandemic, EU officials say, with one calling it a “catastrophe”. A virtual … Read More