Hopes that reopening restaurants and bars would provide an economic boost have been dashed as customers stay away and businesses fight for survival. By Sasha Belenky, HuffPost US Last week, bars, restaurants, cafes and pizzerias across Italy threw open their doors, inviting the public to celebrate the end of two months of confinement and start […]
“They yelled and screamed about it being safe for others across the state to gather, while they were testing positive,” state Rep. Brian Sims said. By Nick Visser, HuffPost US Democrats in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives were outraged Wednesday after learning one of their Republican colleagues had tested positive for the coronavirus and they weren’t […]
GETTY IMAGES : India has more than 150,000 reported infections Soutik Biswas India correspondent On the face of it, things may not look bad. Since the first case of coronavirus at the end of January, India has reported more than 150,000 Covid-19 infections. More than 4,000 people have died of the infection. To put this […]
The US has passed 100,000 deaths in the coronavirus outbreak in less than four months. It has seen more fatalities than any other country, while its 1.69 million confirmed infections account for about 30% of the worldwide total. The first US infection was reported in Washington state on 21 January. Globally there have been 5.6 […]
Stanley White, Koh Gui Qing TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian shares erased gains and the yuan languished on Thursday on growing worries China’s planned security law for Hong Kong would spark a broader diplomatic confrontation with the United States. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.35%, having been in positive territory earlier in […]
Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is not at risk of losing hosting rights for next year’s Twenty20 World Cup despite its cricket board’s failure to secure a tax exemption for the event, a key BCCI official has told Reuters. Tax exemptions for International Cricket Council (ICC) events are listed as a requirement in […]
Small toy figures are seen in front of Google logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration (Reuters) – Security experts at Alphabet Inc’s Google sent 1,755 warnings in April to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers, following a resurgence in hacking and phishing attempts related to the coronavirus […]
The Chinese flag flutters at the office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Beijing, China REUTERS/Tingshu Wang BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved directly imposing national security legislation on Hong Kong to tackle secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference in a city roiled last year by months […]
Sethuraman N R BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian stocks jumped more than 1% on Thursday, driven by a surge in financials for a second day as some investors found value in beaten-down banking stocks, while a broadly positive global mood also helped the rally. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/Files The NSE Nifty 50 index rose 1.25% to 9,431 by […]
Nupur Anand, Manoj Kumar MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India may need to inject up to 1.5 trillion rupees ($19.81 billion) into its state-owned lenders as their pile of soured assets is expected to double during the coronavirus pandemic, three government and banking sources told Reuters. The government initially considered a budget of around 250 billion rupees […]