Category: World News

By Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa … Read More

(This April 16 story corrects amount of aid in paragraph 2 to $3.2 billion, not $4 billion) By Tracy Rucinski (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co <LUV.N> has approached unions representing … Read More

GENEVA (Reuters) – Africa can still contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday. “I believe … Read More

By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Imani Moise and Matt Scuffham NEW YORK (Reuters) – During recessions, big U.S. banks usually turn to cost-cuts to boost results. But during the coronavirus pandemic, … Read More

By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 575 on Friday, up from 525 the day before, while the number … Read More

By Guy Faulconbridge, Elizabeth Piper and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – The British government was too slow to react on several fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause … Read More

By Aram Roston and Mark Hosenball (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to U.S. President Donald Trump, will be released early from prison because of the coronavirus pandemic, … Read More

(Reuters) – A New Jersey electrical contractor has been charged with stealing up to 1,600 respirator masks that were to be donated to a local hospital, the New Jersey attorney … Read More

By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) – Procter & Gamble Co <PG.N> beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly profit on Friday as it reported its best U.S. sales growth in decades thanks … Read More

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Russian counterpart on Friday that any future arms control talks must focus on an American proposal … Read More