Category: World News

PARIS (Reuters) – The death toll in France from the new coronavirus outbreak has risen to 14,967 from 14,393 a day earlier, the French public health authority said on Monday. … Read More

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of subjecting female employees in its corporate-owned fast-food restaurants in Florida to widespread … Read More

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis praised the country’s efforts to contain the coronavirus on Monday but said there was no room for complacency before Orthodox Easter, when … Read More

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Social distancing rules adopted to slow the spread of coronavirus by keeping people two metres apart will remain largely in place until an effective treatment or vaccine … Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has recorded 99 new coronavirus cases, taking the total in the country to 2,272, health minister Zweli Mkhike said on Monday. The country has also … Read More

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan will impose a lockdown on the capital Khartoum for three weeks after 10 more cases of the new coronavirus were discovered on Monday, its information minister … Read More

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 554,849 cases of the new coronavirus, and said the number of deaths had risen to 21,942. … Read More

By Vladimir Soldatkin and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia might need to call in the army to help tackle the coronavirus crisis and … Read More

By Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Alexander Marrow KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – A huge forest fire in Ukraine that has been raging for more than a week is now just one kilometre from … Read More

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Monday it was his decision when to reopen the U.S. economy, not that of state governors, but legal experts … Read More