By Peter Hoskins Business reporter As an already reeling music industry is hit by the coronavirus, the owner of UK publication NME says the pandemic has brought challenges and opportunities. Singapore-based BandLab also owns music brands ranging from guitar-making to retail and digital platforms. The virus came at a time of already seismic change for […]
By Alexandra Alper, Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said from his hospital room that the next few days will be the “real test” of his treatment for COVID-19, after a series of contradictory messages from the White House caused widespread confusion about his condition. In a four-minute video posted on Twitter on Saturday from […]
By Reuters Staff LONDON (Reuters) – Cineworld, the world’s second-biggest cinema operator, will close all its sites in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland this week because of the impact of the coronavirus crisis, a person familiar with the situation said on Sunday. Reporting by Kate Holton, writing by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Toby […]
Barricades were installed at the Delhi-Noida border on Saturday. Press Trust of India Heavy police deployment has come up on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Noida on Saturday, ahead of a scheduled visit of a Congress delegation that plans to meet the family of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras who died after an alleged […]
By Reuters Staff BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message to U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on Saturday, wishing them a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, Chinese state television reported. Trump, who announced early on Friday he had contracted COVID-19, was taken to a hospital near Washington later in the […]
By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called for new European Union sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny with an internationally banned nerve agent. Navalny emerged in recent weeks from a coma after suddenly falling ill during a flight in Siberia and being air-lifted to Berlin […]
A Russian news editor has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Irina Slavina earlier wrote on Facebook: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.” Authorities confirmed her body had been found with severe burns. Slavina said on Thursday […]
Coronavirus pandemic US President Donald Trump has been flown to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus. His doctor said Mr Trump was “fatigued but in good spirits” and, in a later update, that he was doing well. Mr Trump has so far been treated with an experimental drug cocktail injection and the antiviral medication remdesivir […]
It comes at a time when protests have erupted in several parts of the country over the Hathras case. By Akshita Jain Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani’s address at the United Nations on Thursday on women empowerment has left Twitter baffled, as it comes at a time when there is massive outrage over the […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Days after the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang raped and assaulted in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, a senior state police official appeared to imply the woman was not raped because semen was not found. Additional Director General Prashant Kumar told reporters on Thursday that the […]
