Category: World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that $250 billion in coronavirus relief for small businesses desired by Republicans could not pass the House of Representatives … Read More

By Catarina Demony and Victoria Waldersee LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament temporarily suspended electricity, water and gas shutoffs and granted partial pardon to some of its prisoners on Wednesday as … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – France reported some positive coronavirus-linked data on Wednesday, with the increase of hospital death fatalities slowing again, but the presidential palace said nonetheless the national lockdown aimed … Read More

By Saundra Amrhein, Tim Reid, Julia Harte and Ryan McNeill (Reuters) – Earl Kerr, a 57-year-old electrical contractor in Jacksonville, Florida, says he fears for his 80-year-old mother, who entered … Read More

By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – World equity markets surged and oil prices jumped on Wednesday on hopes the coronavirus pandemic is getting close to peaking and that more … Read More

By Emma Pinedo and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) – When Spain’s first case of coronavirus was recorded on Jan. 31 – a German tourist in La Gomera, one of the … Read More

By Brad Brooks, Michael Martina and Catherine Koppel (Reuters) – The new coronavirus is killing African-Americans at a higher rate than the U.S. population at large, according to preliminary numbers … Read More

ROME (Reuters) – Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 542 on Wednesday, a lower tally than the 604 the day before, but the number of new cases … Read More

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – World Health Organization officials on Wednesday denied that the body was “China-centric” and said that the acute phase of a pandemic was not the … Read More

VALLETTA (Reuters) – Malta announced its first death from COVID-19 on Wednesday, a 92-year-old woman with severe underlying medical problems. The tiny Mediterranean island reported its first case of the … Read More