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
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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
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand and Australia are discussing the potential creation of a “travel bubble” between the two countries, even as Australia on Monday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in two weeks. FILE PHOTO: A medical personnel administers tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Bondi Beach drive-through testing centre in
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department, in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2020. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday there was “a significant amount of evidence” that the new coronavirus emerged from a Chinese laboratory,
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government had a contingency plan for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s death as he battled COVID-19 in intensive care last month, he said in an interview with The Sun newspaper. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson records a video message for Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday at 10 Downing Street
Healthcare workers and members of the Bolivarian national police watch as an ambulance arrives with prisoners outside a hospital after a riot erupted inside a prison in Guanare, Venezuela May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Manuel Alvarado CARACAS (Reuters) – A prison riot in the western Venezuelan state of Portuguesa has left at least 46 people dead and
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, officials said, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital Kuala Lumpur. FILE PHOTO: Police officers wearing protective suits pick up an illegal immigrant from an apartment under enhanced lockdown, during