Category: World News

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the weeks since the coronavirus pandemic put the world into a tailspin, the humble face mask has evolved into an American fashion … Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – After Senegal ordered universities to shut over the coronavirus outbreak, Ousmane Issaka, a student from Niger, found himself having to sleep on the pavement outside his shuttered … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Wednesday he will make an announcement next week about a plan to broadly reopen the state’s economy during the first week … Read More

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday his country has been so successful in slowing the spread of the coronavirus that others, particularly Germany, have copied … Read More

BRUGES, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgium’s historic city centres of Bruges and Brussels, usually so busy with visitors that authorities have considered limiting tourists, are facing an unprecedented challenge as the … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to her Australian counterpart on Tuesday about the coronavirus pandemic, her spokesman said on Wednesday, adding that establishing facts about the outbreak … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – British ministers must be held accountable for the mistakes they have made in fighting the coronavirus outbreak, but the priority must be for them to fix pressing … Read More

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Elias Feinzilberg, a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor, had to commemorate Israel’s annual memorial day for the six million Jewish dead on Tuesday separated from his … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron told the Australian prime minister now was not the time for an international investigation into the coronavirus pandemic and that the urgency was … Read More

By James Pearson and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam, which has reported under 300 cases of coronavirus and no deaths since the first infections were detected in January, said … Read More