Category: World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans should receive cash payments within three weeks to help offset the financial hardships of the coronavirus crisis, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, adding that the record … Read More

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Extending school and work closures at the coronavirus’ ground zero in China may delay a second wave of infections, researchers said on Thursday, urging … Read More

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Tehran said on Thursday that a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran 13 years ago had left the country a long time ago, … Read More

AACHEN, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s Aachen Cathedral has dug out the relics of little-known Saint Corona, patron saint of resisting epidemics, from its treasure chamber and is polishing up her … Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the global coronavirus outbreak, agreeing to coordinate the issue of returning citizens to their home countries, … Read More

By Paul Sandle, Kate Holton and Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has placed an emergency order of 10,000 ventilators designed at breakneck speed by bagless vacuum cleaner company Dyson, … Read More

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia aims to sharply increase daily coronavirus testing in the next few weeks by bringing bringing in laboratories as the new government seeks to put a clamp … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is still in “the calm before the storm” of the coronavirus epidemic and is using the time it has won with extensive testing to prepare for … Read More

By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, named a London-based hedge fund manager as its new chief executive on Thursday and … Read More

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli government has opened up a war bunker in the Jerusalem hills to help coordinate its campaign against the spread of the coronavirus, Israeli officials said … Read More