WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some 51.1 million jobs were protected by a high-profile pandemic aid program, the Trump administration said on Monday as it revealed how a firehose of $521.4 billion
Home ยป
Strains of hope: Chilean nurse serenades COVID-19 patients with violin
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – When most Chilean nurses finish their long shifts caring for the country’s many COVID-19 patients, there is little else on their minds but seeing their families, eating
Displaced Yazidis head back to Sinjar as coronavirus lockdown bites
SHARYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Hundreds of Yazidi families driven from their hometown of Sinjar in northern Iraq years ago are now returning as the impact of coronavirus lockdown measures makes
Brazil airline Gol taps loyalty program for a $225 million cash advance
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents (GOLL4.SA) will tap its loyalty program to get a cash advance of 1.2 billion reais ($225.81 million), the company said on Monday,
Die in detention or at home? U.S. pandemic forces cruel choice on asylum seekers
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – In early June, asylum seeker Jose Munoz decided it was time to flee for his life – by getting deported from a Texas immigration detention center
Patchy demand at stores spells more pain for garment suppliers
MADRID/DHAKA (Reuters) – Fashion brands and retailers re-opening around the world to patchy demand, and carrying unsold stock from spring have cut fall orders by as much as two-thirds in
Peru coronavirus cases top 300,000 as Andean nation eases lockdown
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru on Sunday jumped past 300,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the fifth-highest in the world, as the Andean nation of nearly 33 million people slowly reopens its
Tokyo confirms 111 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, NHK says
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo confirmed 111 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, the fourth straight day that the tally of fresh cases has exceeded 100, public broadcaster NHK said. Tokyo reported
German animal-rights protesters target meat plant linked to cornavirus cluster
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German animal-rights activists protested outside a meat factory in North Rhine Westphalia on Saturday where hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus last month, prompting local
Coronavirus: Spain puts 200,000 people in Catalonia back into lockdown as cases rise
More than 200,000 people in northeast Spain have been put back into an enforced lockdown following several new outbreaks of coronavirus. Residents in the county of Segria, which includes the