Over 100 guests cleared to leave Tenerife hotel on coronavirus lockdown
None of the remaining 700-plus guests at a hotel in Spain’s Canary Islands on lockdown over the coronavirus have shown any symptoms of the virus...
Breakingviews TV: South Africa
The government wants to lop 6% a year off public sector wages to rein in the biggest deficit since the apartheid era. That points to...
Will the world start swaying to Angola’s Kizomba?
Dancers in Angola’s capital Luanda believe Kizomba – a dance and music genre that began in the 1980s – could be a tourist draw. Matthew...
Timeline of coronavirus as world scrambles to respond
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization was alerted by Chinese Authorities to a number of pneumonia-like cases in the city of Wuhan. Nearly...
U.S. SEC out for justice over Steven Seagal’s cryptocurrency marketing
Steven Seagal, the star of action movies including “Above the Law” and “Out for Justice,” has agreed to pay $314,000 to resolve charges of “unlawfully...
Starbucks’ CEO says 85% of stores in China are open
Starbucks Corp said on Thursday 85% of its stores in China were open, weeks after the coffee chain shut nearly half of its over 4,000...
As coronavirus takes hold, Greece worries about migrant camps
Greece will tighten border controls to prevent the spread of coronavirus, focusing on island routes used by migrants to enter the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos...
Climate protesters dress as canaries outside north England coal mine
Members of climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion dressed as canaries in cages outside a coal mine in the north of England, during a three-day...
Poland names new head of Jewish museum as tensions rise
Poland’s government appointed a new director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Thursday, as the ruling nationalists face accusations of...
Stocks fall into correction, head for worst week since financial crisis – CNN
Stocks fall into correction, head for worst week since financial crisis CNN Dow set to drop around 200 points following report of first US coronavirus case...