Category: World News

By Sonya Dowsett and Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Spain struggled to cope on Wednesday with a mounting coronavirus crisis as its death toll exceeded China’s with another 738 lives … Read More

By Angus Berwick, Sarah Kinosian and Maria Ramirez CARACAS (Reuters) – On March 13, Melquiades Avila, an indigenous leader and journalist in the remote Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro, asked … Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt and its capital Cairo, a mega-city home to some 20 million people, shut down on Wednesday evening as authorities launched a night-time curfew to tackle the … Read More

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Eduardo Simões BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest states and cities for imposing … Read More

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Armed Honduran soldiers began delivering food to some 3.2 million people on lockdown in their homes on Wednesday, part of the government’s efforts stop … Read More

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – The S&P 500 rallied for a second straight session on Wednesday as the U.S. Senate appeared near a vote on a $2 trillion package to … Read More

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharpened on Thursday his criticism of China’s handling of a coronavirus pandemic, saying its ruling Communist Party was … Read More

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has almost doubled the value of an aid package to help people and businesses deal with losses from the coronavirus outbreak, with Ottawa … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) big economies discussed an “intentional disinformation campaign” by China on the coronavirus in a virtual meeting on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State … Read More

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain registered 738 fatalities from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours in the steepest increase of the death toll since the epidemic hit the country, the … Read More