SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing resident Wang Yukun was happy to comply in April when the construction firm he works for told him he’d need to take a test for the novel coronavirus before he could come back to work, even though he was at low risk of having the disease. FILE PHOTO: People wear protective
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FILE PHOTO: A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Tuesday reported a sharp increase in the number of posts it removed for promoting violence and hate speech across its apps, which it attributed to improvements made to its
KABUL (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday where the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders runs a maternity clinic, officials said. Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail There was no immediate information about any casualties in
BERLIN (Reuters) – The reproduction rate for the coronavirus pandemic in Germany remained above the critical threshold of 1 with an estimated value of 1.07 on Monday after 1.13 on Sunday, the Robert Koch Institute for public health and disease control said. The number indicates that 100 infected people on average infect 107 others, meaning
TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters) – Senegal’s holy city of Touba is fighting a second wave of COVID-19 infections, dashing hopes that swift action by authorities had stopped the new coronavirus from spreading in the one-time epicentre. A Senegalese army doctor examines a local resident at the army field hospital, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday the coronavirus lockdown will not end yet, urging people to “stay alert” to the risks as he outlined plans to begin slowly easing measures that have closed down much of the economy for nearly seven weeks. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during filming
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Every year for the past 20, Rosa Maria Fuenzalida has visited her mother’s grave on Mother’s Day without fail in the central Chilean city of Curico. FILE PHOTO: A worker adjusts his face mask as he delivers information at a closed main gate of a catholic cemetery after Chilean health authorities decided
NEW YORK (Reuters) – China and the United States both supported a draft United Nations Security Council resolution confronting the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and it was “shocking and regretful” that Washington changed its mind on Friday, a Chinese diplomat said. FILE PHOTO: The United Nations Headquarters is pictured as it will be temporarily closed
NAIROBI/KAMPALA (Reuters) – Kenya and Uganda were hit by a power blackout on Saturday, and Kenya Power said the outage on Kenya’s grid was caused by a fault on a high voltage line. FILE PHOTO: A high voltage electrical pylon stands on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, March 14, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo The
FILE PHOTO: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a virtual news conference in Caracas, Venezuela May 6, 2020. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House National Security Council on Friday denied the United States was involved in a bungled incursion into Venezuela this week, allegedly to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, adding if
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at a news conference after an online meeting with German state governors on the loosening of the restrictions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Berlin, Germany May 6, 2020. Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Wednesday honored six members of its armed forces killed last week in a helicopter crash in a ceremony where the prime minister and military officials donned black cloth masks and practiced physical distancing because of the coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: Handout image shows a member of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) who
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland may need to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election unless lawmakers allow a presidential vote, which the government wants to hold by postal ballot during the coronavirus crisis, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Polish Parliament during a session in
MONROVIA (Reuters) – Two people died when an informal gold mine collapsed in western Liberia early on Tuesday, the National Disaster Management Agency said. The collapse happened in a mining hub in Grand Cape Mount County, said Assistant Mines Minister Emmanuel Swen and other government officials. “Fourteen persons ranging from ages 20 to 28 visited
A cyclist uses his smartphone at Barceloneta beach, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Barcelona, Spain, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce MADRID (Reuters) – The daily number of coronavirus deaths registered in Spain remained below 200 on Tuesday for a third consecutive day, the country’s health ministry said, as it reported 185 deaths in
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Monday urged Washington to investigate “all” officials, including members of elite U.S. law enforcement agencies, with ties to a former Mexican security minister accused of taking bribes from a top drug gang. FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s former Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico City November 29, 2012. REUTERS/Tomas