FILE PHOTO: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg takes part in the rally ”Europe Climate Strike” in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The U.S. struggle for racial justice after the police killing of George Floyd is part of the fight against climate change and for social justice that unites
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin discusses a diesel fuel leak at a thermal power station in Krasnoyarsk Region and its damage control during a video conference call with officials at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia June 3, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a state of emergency
The Chinese and Hong Kong flags flutter at the office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, ahead of a news conference held by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, in Beijing, China June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed a controversial national anthem
BOGOTA (Reuters) – In the bustling kitchen of one of Bogota’s trendiest restaurants, a team of chefs that usually caters to the Colombian capital’s well-heeled citizens is preparing meals for a community of people cut off from work and housing during the Andean country’s coronavirus quarantine. A chef from El Chato restaurant wearing a face
Ossimar Silva touches his mother Carmelita Valverde, 85, through a plastic curtain at the 3i Bem-Estar – Residencial Senior nursing home, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Rahel Patrasso SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Dirce Villas Boas, a 93-year-old resident of a nursing home in western Sao Paulo, had
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference call dedicated to the situation on the labour market amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia May 27, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday a nationwide
FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference after the reshuffling of the Japanese cabinet at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) – The situation in Hong Kong is deeply concerning and stability is important, Japan’s top government spokesman said
People react during a protest against the death in Minneapolis police custody of African-American man George Floyd, in Parliament Square, London, Britain, May 31, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of people protested in London and Berlin on Sunday in solidarity with demonstrations in the United States over the death of a black man
U.S. President Donald Trump, with U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while returning to Washington from Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone the Group of Seven summit that
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel briefs the media after a meeting of former East German state governors, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, May 27, 2020. Markus Schreiber/Pool via REUTERS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend an envisaged summit of the Group of
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Officials from Hungary and South Korea held a minute’s silence and threw white flowers onto the waters of the Danube on Friday, marking the first anniversary of a boat accident which killed 25 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew. A black flag flutters on deck of a boat taking part in
People cross a road in the municipality of Iztapalapa as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Mexico City, Mexico, May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico on Thursday registered 3,377 new cases of coronavirus and 447 deaths, bringing the total numbers to 81,400 cases and 9,044 fatalities, according to
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will divert A$280 million ($185.25 million) in overseas aid this year to bolster the response of its closest neighbours to the coronavirus pandemic, with Canberra warning the stability of the Indo-Pacific region is at risk. FILE PHOTO: Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks during an event hosted by the U.S. Department
FILE PHOTO: Relatives of a man who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before being transferred to a hospital are seen near an ambulance transporting the body of their loved one, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico on Wednesday registered 3,463 new cases of coronavirus and
FILE PHOTO: A nurse shows a pill of hydroxychloroquine, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Nossa Senhora da Conceicao hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Diego Vara PARIS (Reuters) – The French government on Wednesday cancelled a decree allowing hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hundreds of riot police took up posts around Hong Kong’s legislature overnight, as protests were expected on Wednesday over a bill criminalising disrespect of China’s national anthem and against plans by Beijing to impose national security laws. FILE PHOTO: Riot police stand guard during a march against Beijing’s plans to impose