As deaths mount in Brazil’s Amazon, official COVID-19 toll under scrutiny
The death toll from COVID-19 in the worst hit part of Brazil’s remote Amazon region may be three times the official count, according to data...
Siemens surges as cuts costs and presses on with energy IPO
Siemens stock surged on Friday after the German engineering company said it was speeding up cost savings to tackle the coronavirus downturn and the flotation...
Israel to discuss with U.S. reported Sinai peacekeeper cutback plan: Israeli minister
Israel said on Friday it would discuss with its closest ally the United States a newspaper report that the U.S.-led peacekeeping force in the Egyptian...
Iran quake of magnitude 5.1 kills two, injures 38
Two people died and 38 were injured when a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Iran in the early hours of Friday and people fled their...
Exclusive: Biden allies told to attack Trump’s stimulus as ‘cronyism’
Allies of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are being told to sharpen attacks on President Donald Trump’s stimulus efforts as thinly veiled “cronyism,” according...
Wuhan market had role in virus outbreak, but more research needed: WHO
A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source...
Health beats wealth for nurse expecting pandemic Mother’s Day baby
Samantha Salinas never planned to give birth during a global pandemic, but Mother’s Day 2020 may be when her baby finally arrives....
Special Report: For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
By Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Jackie Botts, Andrea Januta and Guillermo Gomez...
A united front takes aim at police immunity from lawsuits
The diverse opponents of qualified immunity have thrown their weight behind at least five appeals now awaiting the Supreme Court’s attention, each considered a potential...
How Reuters analyzed court data on qualified immunity
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has repeatedly criticized her fellow justices for creating, as she put it in a 2018 dissent, an “absolute shield” for...