Oil plunges to 2002 lows, shares sink again
Oil took another eyewatering 8% tumble on Monday and world shares buckled again as fears mounted that the global coronavirus shutdown could last for months....
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Former Turkey keeper Rustu Recber in hospital with coronavirus
Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber has been taken to hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus and is currently in a “critical period”, his wife...
Man City’s Gundogan says Liverpool deserve title if season cancelled
Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan says it would only be “fair” for rivals Liverpool to be awarded the English Premier League trophy if the season...
UEFA president admits that current season may not finish
The head of European football’s governing body said that the current season could be “lost” if it is unable to re-start by the end of...
Life in China gradually getting back to normal as cases drop for fourth day
China reported a drop in new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as drastic curbs on international travellers reined in the number of imported cases,...
Trump backs off plan to reopen businesses by mid-April amid coronavirus warnings
President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April, dropping a hotly criticized plan to get the economy up and...
Italy’s small town priest handling death on industrial scale
A parish priest in the town of Seriate in northern Italy explains how he has had to start dealing with death on a scale he...
Spain toughens restrictions as death toll surges, Lombardy’s toll increases by 416
Spain prepared to enter its third week under near-total lockdown on Sunday, as the government approved a strengthening of measures to curb the spread of...
White House-led airlift of urgently needed medical supplies arrives in New York
A planeload of desperately needed medical supplies arrived in New York from China on Sunday, the first in a series of flights over the next...
Britain orders 10,000 ventilators in fight against coronavirus
Britain has placed an order for 10,000 ventilators to be made by a consortium of companies including Ford, Airbus and Rolls-Royce as part of efforts...
Australia asks people to isolate more even as coronavirus spread slows
Australians were asked on Sunday to further isolate themselves from the public to keep the coronavirus from spreading even as authorities said the rate of...
Qatar Airways will have to seek state support, warns cash running out
Qatar Airways will have to seek government support eventually, Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker told Reuters on Sunday, warning the Middle East carrier could soon run...
UK’s Johnson warns on coronavirus: Things to get worse before they get better
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is warning Britons in a letter to 30 million households that things will get worse before they get better, as he...
China guards against second wave of coronavirus coming from abroad
The growing number of imported coronavirus cases in China risked fanning a second wave of infections at a time when “domestic transmission has basically been...
Malaria drug is biggest hope against coronavirus, says Novartis CEO
Novartis Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan said his Sandoz generics unit’s malaria, lupus and arthritis drug hydroxychloroquine is the company’s biggest hope against the coronavirus, Swiss...
N.Korea fires more missiles than ever amid coronavirus outbreak
North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in an unprecedented...
Trump drops idea of New York lockdown as U.S. death count crosses 2,000
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would issue a travel warning for the hard-hit New York area to limit the spread of the...
Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 889 in a day to 10,023
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has surged by 889, the Civil Protection Agency said on Saturday, the second highest daily...
Russia prepares to shut all borders as coronavirus cases soar
Russia will close all border crossings on March 30, the government said on Saturday, tightening restrictions after the country reported its biggest one-day rise in...
Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus crisis
All foreigners in Portugal with pending applications will be treated as permanent residents from Monday until at least July 1, authorities said on Saturday, to...
