U.S. airlines step up safety measures in preparation for recovery
U.S. carriers JetBlue Airways Corp and United Airlines Holdings Inc announced fresh safety measures on Wednesday aimed at restoring confidence in travel as several executives...
Monkeys infected with COVID-19 develop immunity in studies, a positive sign for vaccines
Two studies in monkeys published on Wednesday offer some of the first scientific evidence that surviving COVID-19 may result in immunity from reinfection, a positive...
Brazil clears way for use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
Brazil’s Health Ministry on Wednesday issued new guidelines clearing the way for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with COVID-19, days after a second...
Motor racing: Hockenheim ready to step in if Silverstone fails
Hockenheim is ready to step in if British quarantine restrictions prevent Silverstone from hosting a Formula One race during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German circuit’s...
UK to have track and trace COVID system by June 1
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that a program to track and trace those suspected of having been in contact with people who...
OPEC chief says oil market responding well to record OPEC+ cut
OPEC is encouraged by a rally in oil prices and strong adherence to its latest output cut, its secretary general said, although sources say the...
Oil up on lower U.S. stocks, firmer demand
Oil prices firmed on Wednesday on signs of improving demand and a drawdown in U.S. crude inventories, but worries over the economic fallout from the...
Rwanda’s most-wanted genocide suspect appears before French court
Felicien Kabuga, indicted on charges of genocide related to the 1994 Rwandan massacre of some 800,000 people, appeared before a French court on Wednesday, four...
Indicted Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga appears before French court
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, indicted in his absence on charges of bankrolling ethnic militias that massacred some 800,000 people in 1994, was brought before...
Prosecutor seeks transfer of Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga to U.N. custody
International war crimes investigators have requested that Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested last weekend, be transferred to United Nations custody for trial, a prosecutor...