Huge forest fire around Chernobyl thwarted: authorities
A huge blaze that tore through forests around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, saying hundreds of...
Global creditors agree debt relief for poor countries hit by pandemic
Major international creditors will suspend debt payments this year for the world’s poorest countries, who will be hit hardest by the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic...
MLS: Mid-May return ‘extremely unlikely’
More than a month after play was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, MLS acknowledged Tuesday that its hopes to resume the season by mid-May...
Cannes Film Festival will not be held this year in ‘its original form’: organisers
The Cannes Film Festival will not be held this year in “its original form” due to the coronavirus, organisers said on Tuesday....
Spain denies requisitioning coronavirus tests bound for workers
Spain’s health minister denied on Tuesday that authorities had requisitioned 2,000 antibody tests which a workers union said Siemens Gamesa had expected to receive to...
Trump speaks of mutiny as Cuomo dismisses premature coronavirus reopening
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested some Democratic governors were “mutineers” after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would refuse any order to reopen...
Trump to announce ventilator loan plan to fight virus
U.S. President Donald Trump is to announce a loan program on Tuesday with the aim of making as many as 60,000 ventilators available to help...
Canada economic shutdown to last for weeks more, death toll above 800
Canada’s economic shutdown will last for weeks more to ensure measures to fight the coronavirus are working, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, while...
Exclusive: France to hike crisis response by 10 billion euros to 110 billion – sources
The French government is set to raise the total amount of its crisis-response package by 10 billion euros ($11 billion), the second increase in days,...
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll climbs by 602
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 602 on Tuesday, up from 566 the day before, posting a second consecutive daily increase, but...