Category: World News

By Kirsty Needham and James Redmayne SYDNEY (Reuters) – As a noon deadline struck on Monday for Australian pubs, restaurants and other gathering-places to close, the last three guests in … Read More

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo was hospitalized on Sunday with respiratory infection and is awaiting coronavirus test results, the government said in a statement on Monday. … Read More

By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight … Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that medical assistance Russia was providing to Italy to help it battle the new coronavirus was not part of an attempt to … Read More

TOKYO (Reuters) – The governor of the Japanese capital warned on Monday that a lockdown of the city was possible if it saw an explosive rise in coronavirus cases, and … Read More

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis’s trip to Malta, which had been scheduled to take place on May 31, has been postponed indefinitely, the Vatican said on Monday. It was … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior adviser on Monday denied a weekend newspaper report that he had prioritized herd immunity and the economy in the coronavirus crisis … Read More

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge of “huge” stimulus will involve spending of at least $137 billion financed in part by deficit-covering bonds, sources … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain now has access to 12,000 ventilators after it bought more from existing providers and its manufacturers are stepping up further production, Health Minister Matt Hancock said … Read More

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai military conscripts face widespread violence and sexual assaults, Amnesty International said in a report on Monday, calling the abuse institutionalized and systematically hushed up by the … Read More