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MADRID (Reuters) – The next best thing to sitting in a darkened movie theatre? A drive-in cinema in the Spanish capital launched its post-lockdown summer season on Wednesday with a blast of escapism in the form of the 1978 musical … Continue reading ‘Grease’ kicks off Madrid summer nights at socially distanced drive-in cinema
LONDON (Reuters) – Potential breaches of market rules have spiked since traders began working from home in March, drawing scrutiny from regulators and piling pressure on banks to plug “black holes” in surveillance systems, industry officials say. FILE PHOTO: A … Continue reading Home trading triggers bank ‘black hole’ surveillance alerts
FILE PHOTO: An airport worker watches as a shipment of medical supplies donated to Africa to help fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma and the Alibaba Foundation arrives on a plane from Ethiopia at the Jomo … Continue reading Africa hit by sustained community spread of coronavirus: disease centre
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government faced questions over how closely people would abide by its new COVID-19 test and trace service on Thursday, as a row persisted over the prime minister’s closest adviser taking a long-distance journey during lockdown. FILE … Continue reading England’s COVID-19 test and trace system begins as adviser row rumbles on
BEIJING (Reuters) – It was an ambush, said He Meili, a 51-year-old lesbian woman, describing how she met with her dead partner’s step-parents at a police station where they demanded she leave the apartment the couple had shared for 12 … Continue reading China’s same-sex couples heartened by property protection rights in new civil code
(Reuters) – The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two … Continue reading U.S. coronavirus deaths top 100,000 as country reopens
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Nathalie Maikere sat at her dining table, her two children playing video games a few feet away, as a doctor in a lab coat unpacked her medical bag and took her temperature, pulse, and blood pressure. A … Continue reading Amid lockdown, Kenyan medical startup brings clinic to your home
(Reuters) – As much of the world begins to emerge from lockdown, people are looking back at time spent cut off from friends, family and colleagues by the coronavirus and forward to what happens next. A view is pictured from … Continue reading Looking in, looking out: world emerges from lockdown with mixed feelings
(Reuters) – Less than four months after a 57-year-old California woman died and was later found to be the country’s first COVID-19 fatality, the coronavirus U.S. death toll topped 100,000 people on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally. FILE PHOTO: … Continue reading Factbox: Where states stand as U.S. reaches 100,000 coronavirus deaths
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co unveiled a plan to become a smaller, more cost-efficient automaker on Thursday as it looks to recover from four years of tumbling profits that culminated in its first annual loss in 11 years. FILE … Continue reading Nissan sets out survival plan after first loss in 11 years
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is emerging as one of China’s biggest corporate winners of the coronavirus crisis, gaining the opportunity to expand its businesses and solidify its status as a critical part of the country’s socio-economic engine. … Continue reading Alibaba extends its reach in China as coronavirus outbreak opens doors
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian judge will rule Wednesday on a key aspect of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s extradition to the United States. The judge will rule on double criminality, meaning whether the charges against … Continue reading Timeline: Key events in Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case
