The Covid-19 crisis has battered the global economy like no other event since the 1929 Great Depression. However, the economic prospects for 2020 were not great even before the crisis, with many economic experts warning earlier this year that the (...)
People arriving from 16 countries outside the European Union where the infection rate of COVID-19 is deemed to be high will be subject to compulsory testing on arrival at French airports and sea ports, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on (...)
The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday, with the total rising by 284,196 in 24 hours.
Deaths rose by 9,753, the biggest one-day increase since a record high of 9,797 deaths on April 30.
The (...)
Italy on Thursday banned entry to people coming from 13 countries that it said presented an excessive rate of COVID-19 infections.
The list compiled by the health ministry comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, (...)
The Holy Family's flight through Egypt at the start of the first century AD has continually inspired artists and events, including the annual Journey of the Holy Family to Egypt – founded and curatwed by artist Chadi Adib Salama – which in its fifth (...)
Brazil has registered 32,091 cases of the novel coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 739,503, according to the Brazilian Health Ministry.
This is the fourth day the South American country has recorded (...)
President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus (...)
U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan is down to nearly 8,600, well ahead of a schedule agreed with Taliban militants in late February, in part because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, U.S. and NATO officials said.
A key provision of (...)
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States.
Many governments say they have to shift their (...)
As nations around the world loosen coronavirus restrictions, people are discovering that ``the new normal'' is anything but.
Yet some realities have emerged: schools, offices, public transport, bars and restaurants are now on the front lines of (...)
More than 4.31 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 291,820 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases (...)
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled a $3 trillion-plus coronavirus relief package including funding for the post office and testing, though the top Senate Republican had already bashed the idea.
The new legislation (...)
Halfway through his 30-minute bike ride to work, police ordered Juan Pasamar to dismount, accusing him of breaking Spain's coronavirus lockdown rules by exercising in public. The officers were not buying his explanation he was commuting to his job (...)
The total number of Peru's coronavirus cases have topped 20,000, doubling in just nine days.
The pandemic continues to disrupt the economy of Peru, the world's No. 2 copper producer.
The Peruvian health ministry said on Thursday it expects the (...)
Some 4.5 billion people around the world are still living in either partial or complete lockdown, or in self-isolation in the framework of governmental efforts to contain the global coronavirus pandemic. Governments have been fully-mobilised to (...)
Peru's total coronavirus cases have surpassed 15,000 on Sunday, becoming the second-highest in Latin America.
The virus continues to ravage the economy of the world's No. 2 copper producer.
The Peruvian central bank said on Sunday the economy had (...)
A group of thirteen countries including Britain, Brazil, Italy and Germany is calling for global cooperation to lessen the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a joint statement the group said it is committed to ``work with all countries (...)
لا تشهد دول امريكا الجنوبية تسجيل الكثير من ضحايا جراء الإصابة بفيروس كورونا المستجد، ولكن مع هذا تتخذ حكومة دول القارة المزيد من الاجراءات الاحترازية لمنع تفشي فيروس كورونا، وفي هذا الإطار، عرضت شبكة ABC News الأمريكية، فيديو لضباط الشرطة في بيرو (...)
The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too.
In Chicago, one of America's most violent cities, drug arrests have plummeted 42% in the weeks since the city (...)
Australian police said on Thursday they have taken the "black box" of a cruise ship which disembarked hundreds of passengers infected with the coronavirus in Sydney, as part of a homicide investigation into the country's deadliest infection source. (...)
Stars in some big Europe leagues are taking deep pay cuts amid the coronavirus pandemic but in South America, where most clubs and players aren't nearly as wealthy, local footballers want to be shown the money. All of it.
In Brazil and Argentina, (...)
As a growing number of governments enforced lockdowns curb the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), halting travel, and limiting access to museums and archaeological sites around the world.
That leaves self-quarantined people with a lot of free time (...)
Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), and Yasmin Fouad, Minister of Environment have met with Paul Garnier, Swiss Ambassador to Egypt to discuss ways to activate the “sustainable recycling industries project in (...)
Losses in China stocks, which ended lower on Tuesday, were capped as investors expected the coronavirus contagion outside China to have a limited impact on the Chinese market.
At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was down 0.6% at 3,013.05. The (...)
Japan canceled the emperor's birthday celebrations next week as it moved on Monday to limit crowds to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and said it will close the Tokyo Marathon to all but elite professional runners
The widening fallout of the (...)
