Author: Reuters

By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwanda is guarding against the spread of coronavirus by flooding its capital with portable sinks for hand-washing at bus stops, restaurants, banks and shops … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday that all options were on the table after a rocket attack in Iraq killed one British and two American … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by phone with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj on Thursday, a German government spokesman said in a statement, urging him to move … Read More

By Howard Schneider and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has picked his favorite weapon to fight the economic fallout from the coronavirus: an elimination of the “payroll … Read More

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is being monitored and tested for coronavirus, Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported on Thursday, without citing sources. Reuters … Read More

By Dominic Evans BINNISH, Syria (Reuters) – Ahmed Mansour was a schoolboy with dreams of becoming a lawyer when he joined the first protests at his secondary school in Syria’s … Read More

By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Thursday reported 114 new coronavirus cases and six more deaths, a relative decline in new cases that raised … Read More

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila, as well as community quarantine measures, in … Read More

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dexter Johnson often comes to the Bowery Mission to get a free meal, having struggled off and on with homelessness, but the 33-year-old … Read More

By Valentina Za, Gavin Jones and Crispian Balmer MILAN/ROME (Reuters) – Even if Italy’s draconian measures to stop the spread of coronavirus prove successful, they will leave an economy in … Read More