Author: Reuters

By Tanisha Heiberg and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will impose a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from midnight on Thursday to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some 13,500 U.S. citizens abroad are seeking State Department help to return home because of the coronavirus, a U.S. official said on Monday, urging Americans who are … Read More

DOHA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet Taliban officials in Doha on Monday on his way back from a one-day trip to Afghanistan as part of … Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said on Monday that effective immediately only citizens of the United Arab Emirates or diplomats will be able to board its flights from … Read More

By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) – For many in Santiago’s Plaza Italia, ground zero for mass protests in Chile that have raged for months, the … Read More

By Rod Nickel and Kelsey Johnson WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA (Reuters) – After failing to grow wheat in Canada’s subarctic Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot … Read More

By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the rights of criminal defendants, declaring that states can bar them from using the so-called insanity defense … Read More

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine in 2014 will be adjourned until June 8 … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange’s lawyers will apply for his release on bail because of the risk of contracting coronavirus while in prison, Wikileaks said on Monday. The Wikileaks founder … Read More

By Stephanie Kelly, Ahmad Ghaddar and Koustav Samanta NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Prices and profit margins for motor and aviation fuels globally are under severe pressure from a plunge in … Read More