Category: World News

By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> plans to roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S. and European warehouses plus Whole Foods stores … Read More

By Catarina Demony and Victoria Waldersee LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament approved on Thursday the suspension of rents for vulnerable households and cash-strapped small firms during the coronavirus outbreak, but … Read More

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Twitter took down thousands of accounts linked to Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Serbia on Thursday for either taking directions from the … Read More

By Sam Nussey and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp said it has terminated a $3 billion tender offer for additional WeWork shares agreed last year with shareholders, drawing … Read More

By Nick Brown and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City crematories are extending their hours, burning bodies into the night. The state has started a running tally … Read More

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s worst case scenario envisages a coronavirus death toll of 50,000 if self isolation is not fully adhered to, but the United … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she will form a bipartisan select committee on the coronavirus crisis to oversee the spending of $2.3 … Read More

By Maureen Maratita HAGATNA, Guam (Reuters) – About 1,000 sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt – roughly a fifth of its crew – were under quarantine at a … Read More

By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – The head of the European Commission apologised to Italy on Thursday for a lack of solidarity from Europe in tackling its coronavirus crisis, but … Read More

By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) – Law-abiding Germans are zealously helping police crack down on people flouting new social distancing rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus by … Read More