Category: World News

By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will hire 32,000 more medical staff and stop exporting locally-made face masks so its own services can use them as … Read More

(This March 21 story has been refiled to correct spelling of executive’s name, paragraphs 7, 16 and 19) By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – U.S. hospitals, bracing for a surge of … Read More

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain paid tribute on Monday to front-line staff battling a worsening coronavirus outbreak that has infected nearly 4,000 health workers, who make up more than a tenth … Read More

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global equities slid further and safe-haven assets rose on Monday after a massive array of new programs from the U.S. Federal Reserve underscored … Read More

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court’s ruling that had given the green light to comedian-turned-media entrepreneur Byron Allen’s $20 billion … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said a virtual lockdown in France imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus could last several more weeks and that his government … Read More

By Tanisha Heiberg and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will impose a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from midnight on Thursday to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some 13,500 U.S. citizens abroad are seeking State Department help to return home because of the coronavirus, a U.S. official said on Monday, urging Americans who are … Read More

DOHA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet Taliban officials in Doha on Monday on his way back from a one-day trip to Afghanistan as part of … Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said on Monday that effective immediately only citizens of the United Arab Emirates or diplomats will be able to board its flights from … Read More