PHILO PHOTO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro watches as he wears his protective face mask during a ceremony launching a program to expand access to credit at the Planalto Palace in Brazil, Brazil, August 19, 2020. REUTERS / Adriano Machado BRAZIL (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he …
Read More »Residents of Louisiana, Cuba evacuate as twin storms target a U.S. coast
(Reuters) – Coastal residents in low-lying areas of Louisiana and Cuba were evacuated on Sunday as roads turned into rivers in Haiti’s capital as twin hurricanes threatened the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf Coast. Marco, which intensified after a hurricane on Sunday and is expected to hit the Louisiana coast …
Read More »WHO says children aged 12 and older should wear masks as adults
PHILO PHOTO: A boy wearing a protective face mask plays in a fountain after local authorities imposed lockdown restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, in Moscow, Russia June 12, 2020. REUTERS / Evgenia Novozhenina ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) says children aged 12 and …
Read More »Maduro says Venezuela buys Iranian missiles ‘a good idea’
PHILO PHOTO: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a youth event of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party in Caracas, Venezuela June 22, 2020. Miraflores Palace / Handout via REUTERS CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday it would be a “good idea” to buy missiles from Iran, a …
Read More »Global deaths from coronavirus are more than 800,000
(Reuters) – The global death toll from coronavirus exceeded 800,000 on Saturday, according to a Reuters census, with the United States, Brazil and India leading the rise in deaths. Nearly 5,900 people die on average every 24 hours from COVID-19, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the past …
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