Author: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is to step down from the main U.S. organization for humanitarian assistance, even as the … Read More

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi has told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by telephone that attempts to smear China’s efforts to control the coronavirus “will not … Read More

By Tim Reid and Joshua Schneyer (Reuters) – Lori Spencer had an uneasy feeling after dropping her 81-year-old mother off at the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, Washington … Read More

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz received an official mandate on Monday to try to form Israel’s next government, and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join … Read More

By Tom Balmforth and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled it was legal to change the country’s constitution in a way that could allow President … Read More

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s King Felipe has renounced his inheritance from his father, former King Juan Carlos, and stripped the ex-monarch of his palace allowance. Felipe’s latest move to distance … Read More

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada closed its borders to all foreign nationals, except U.S. citizens, on Monday, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged people to stay at home to help stem … Read More

By Emma Pinedo and Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s streets were eerily quiet on Monday but for loudspeakers mounted on police cars or carried by drones telling people to … Read More

By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Monday adopted an emergency decree worth 25 billion euros ($28 billion) to support an already weak economy battered by the worst outbreak … Read More

By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday rejected criticism he was setting a poor example by holding mass rallies during the coronavirus … Read More