Category: World News

DUBLIN (Reuters) – The total confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ireland rose to 2,121 on Friday from 1,819 a day earlier, with three more deaths reported to bring the number … Read More

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom will use firefighters to help deliver food, retrieve dead bodies and drive ambulances as it braces for the looming peak of … Read More

By Rami Ayyub TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel appeared headed for a unity government on Friday after opposition leader Benny Gantz moved towards an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – French health authorities reported 299 new deaths from coronavirus on Thursday, taking the total to 1,995, as the government has decided to extend by two weeks the … Read More

By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors hoping for calm to return to U.S. stocks will not find much comfort in Wall Street’s fear gauge known as the VIX, … Read More

By John Whitesides and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. election officials looking to construct a safe voting system in a worsening coronavirus pandemic are confronting a grim reality: there … Read More

By John Miller and John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland has begun tapping its strategic stockpile of pharmaceuticals to cover rising demand caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the government said … Read More

By John Irish and Marine Pennetier PARIS (Reuters) – France will extend a national lockdown until April 15 after reporting its biggest daily death toll from coronavirus, its prime minister … Read More

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON – A U.S. recession may already be underway. Could it be worse? The Great Depression that began with a stock market crash in 1929 and lasted … Read More

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – The Royal Mint, the world’s largest maker and supplier of coins, said on Friday it has started manufacturing visors for Britain’s medical staff to … Read More