Category: World News

By Stanis Bujakera and Ayenat Mersie KINSHASA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Days after Congo announced emergency restrictions to curb the new coronavirus, a police video started circulating online showing an officer in … Read More

By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – The huge cost of the coronavirus pandemic is upending Japan’s seven-year experiment to rescue the economy from its debt timebomb, as … Read More

By Rania El Gamal and Vladimir Soldatkin DUBAI/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Oil producers in the OPEC+ group, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, were expected to pressure Mexico on Friday to … Read More

By Ilya Zhegulev KIEV (Reuters) – The head of a 1,000-year-old Orthodox monastery that became a hotspot for coronavirus infections in Kiev said he had underestimated the gravity of the … Read More

ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss death toll from coronavirus has reached 805, the country’s public health ministry said on Friday, rising from 756 people on Thursday. The number of positive … Read More

By Zeba Siddiqui and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and … Read More

By Christian Hartmann BISCHWILLER, France (Reuters) – The Skype call had to be rebooted, but after several attempts Danielle Martin, a 71-year-old locked down inside a French retirement home, could … Read More

By Sultan Anshori BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) – Just weeks ago, some visitors were complaining that Bali’s famous sand and surf spot of Kuta Beach was way too busy. Now it … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s total death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose to 4,232 on Friday with 122 lives lost in the past 24 hours, according to a health … Read More

By Jan Strupczewski and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers agreed on Thursday on half-a-trillion euros worth of support for their coronavirus-battered economies but left open the … Read More