MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday he would be ready to hand over power in a referendum, in an apparent bid to pacify mass protests and strikes, the biggest challenge for his 26-year-old son years in the office. He made the offer, which he insisted would not …
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PHOTO PHOTO: A health care worker places a stretcher in an ambulance at the entrance of the Houston Methodist Hospital emergency room at Texas Medical Center as cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in Houston, Texas, USA, July 8, 2020 REUTERS / Callaghan O’Hare (Reuters) – The United States reported 170,000 …
Read More »American university assures Chinese student class against virus. Then COVID-19 struck
(Reuters) – After becoming Dean of the University of Illinois School of Business in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics as a virus would choke a major source of income for his school: Chinese graduates. Jeffrey Brown, dean of Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, poses at …
Read More »China’s central bank injected 700 billion yuan of MLF loans, rates stable for fourth month
PHILO PHOTO: A man with a mask walks past the headquarters of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, in Beijing, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, February 3, 2020. REUTERS / Jason Lee SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank rolled over …
Read More »Italy closes nightclubs as cases of coronavirus in boys
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is closing down discos and clubs and making it mandatory to wear a mask at night wearing a mask at night in the first re-position of restrictions if cases of coronavirus are picked up across the country, especially among younger people. PHILO PHOTO: Italian Public Health …
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