SYDNEY (Reuters) – An increase in COVID-19 cases in Australia’s second-largest city could take weeks to lessen despite a shutdown and orders to wear masks, Australia’s acting chief medical officer said Monday as the country prepares for a second wave of infection. FILE PHOTO: People walk downtown in the first …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU leaders found themselves at a standstill on Monday after three days of haggling over a plan to revive economies strangled by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the president of his summit nearly set a record he urged them to give one last push on “mission impossible”. European …
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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – Rapper Kanye West, in his first event since declaring himself a presidential candidate, railed against historic figure Harriet Tubman on Sunday, saying the director of the underground railroad “never freed slaves, she simply He made other white people work, ”comments that sparked cries of opposition from …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong on Monday in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of a security law in the former colony, British newspapers reported. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Dominic Raab, leaves Downing …
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NEW YORK (AP) – Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet, not for work, but for a recent hobby: discovering how many of Amazon’s 400,000 warehouse workers have become ill with the coronavirus. Amazon won’t give out a number, so Jumpp tracks it alone and shares what …
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