Category: World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on Tuesday an emergency funding bill to fight the coronavirus could be completed and … Read More

MILAN (Reuters) – Vinitaly, one of the largest international trade fairs for wine, has been postponed to mid-June as Italy battles to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus. The … Read More

By Lefteris Papadimas and Alkis Konstantinidis KASTANIES/LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – European Union officials on Tuesday promised more cash for Greece during a visit to its border with Turkey which tens … Read More

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova will on Wednesday ask election winner Igor Matovic, leader of the anti-graft Ordinary People party (OLANO), to head talks on forming a government, … Read More

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, who canceled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy, is suffering only from a cold that is “without symptoms related to … Read More

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – A jailed Catalan separatist leader elected to the European Parliament while behind bars cannot serve as an EU lawmaker or enjoy immunity while his case is heard … Read More

By Gabriela Baczynska and John Chalmers BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union ambassadors voiced outrage at a meeting this week over what they see as an attempt by Turkish President Tayyip … Read More

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday rejected the resignation of a senior official who had quit due to a departmental spat over a major … Read More

By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister Priti Patel said she regretted the resignation of senior official Philip Rutnam and called on her department to pull together, an … Read More

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah believes that terms required by any IMF bailout package for Lebanon would spark “a popular revolution”, a senior official said on Tuesday, rejecting such a step … Read More