Category: World News

By Tomas Mrva BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia has closed off several Roma settlements in the eastern part of the country after reports of a cluster of coronavirus cases in five … Read More

By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has prolonged a nationwide lockdown indefinitely to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday, asking citizens to … Read More

By Nick Brown and Gabriella Borter NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state, epicenter of America’s coronavirus crisis, set another single-day record of COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, as veteran doctors … Read More

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to launch an appeal soon for more than $1 billion to fund operations against the COVID-19 pandemic … Read More

By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian government on Thursday claimed initial success in its fight against the coronavirus epidemic, saying it would have been hit with 820,000 … Read More

By Rupam Jain and Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) – India faces an uphill battle to contain coronavirus outbreaks in the slums of the vast financial capital Mumbai amid fears the … Read More

ABUJA (Reuters) – Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organization officials … Read More

HARARE (Reuters) – The United Nations food agency said on Wednesday it needed $130 million to fund emergency operations in Zimbabwe until August and prevent a catastrophe in the southern … Read More

ROME (Reuters) – The Italian government on Thursday won a confidence vote in the Senate on an emergency decree that lays out measures worth 25 billion euros ($28 billion) to … Read More

By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan has evoked Turkey’s war of independence in calls for unity against the coronavirus, but opposition parties say their exclusion from fund-raising … Read More