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American Airlines to cut 19,000 jobs in October without aid, workforce shrinking 30%
American Airlines said on Tuesday its workforce will shrink by 40,000, including 19,000 involuntary cuts, in October as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weigh on…
Facebook agrees to pay France €106 million in back taxes
Facebook’s French subsidiary has agreed to pay 106 million euros ($125 million) in back taxes and penalties following persistent government efforts to get online giants…
Africa now free of wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization says
Africa is now free of the wild poliovirus disease, which can cause paralysis in children, The World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The announcement comes…
Germany’s Maas calls on Greece and Turkey to avoid ’catastrophe’
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urged the two countries to solve their dispute over rights to a resource-rich area of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. He likened…
Soup kitchens are back, as crises bite hard in Chile
Long months of a pandemic lockdown and economic crisis have revived a scourge that Chileans thought they had beaten forever: hunger. So the number of…
Asylum seekers in last-minute UK legal bid to prevent removal
Dozens of asylum seekers who arrived in the UK on small boats are due to be put on charter flights over the next two days,…
Spain ready to send in troops to trace resurging coronavirus
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday that troops would be made available to help regions overcome a resurgence of the coronavirus, following Spain’s…
Hong Kong reports ’first case’ of virus reinfection
Hong Kong scientists are reporting the case of a healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with coronavirus four and a half months after…
Facebook blocks group of one million critical of Thai monarchy amid government pressure
Facebook on Monday blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discusses the country’s king, after the Thai government threatened legal…
UK plans law to force big companies to clean up their supply chains
Britain said on Monday it would start a consultation process on a potential new law which would force big companies to clean up their supply…
Belarus protests: Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich set to be quizzed over opposition council
Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich has been summoned by Belarus investigators over a new opposition council that is aiming to facilitate a transition of power…
WHO presses for greater investment in global COVID-19 vaccine facility
Investing in a mechanism that will guarantee all countries have fair and timely access to a COVID-19 vaccine is the only way out of the…
Bali bans foreign tourists for rest of 2020 over virus
Foreign tourists won’t be allowed to visit Bali for the rest of 2020 due to coronavirus concerns, its governor said, scrapping a plan to open up…
Uncertain future keeps California citrus grower awake at night
The potential loss of his life’s work has kept Vince Bernard up at night, worried about whether he would be able to save his citrus…
Signs of recovery? U.S. business activity and home sales surge
In signs an economic recovery may be picking up speed, U.S. home sales rose at a record rate for a second straight month in July,…
New talks with CureVac expand EU portfolio of future vaccines
The EU Commission concluded Thursday exploratory talks with CureVac to purchase a potential vaccine against COVID-19, offering the possibility for all EU Member States to…
Climate fund for poor nations vows to drive green COVID recovery
The Green Climate Fund has promised developing nations it will ramp up efforts to help them tackle climate challenges as they strive to recover from…
Tens of thousands in Lithuania form human chain for Belarus
Tens of thousands of Lithuanians linked arms on Sunday in solidarity with the people of neighbouring Belarus who have been holding mass protests against authoritarian…
Attack on Austrian Jewish leader denounced
Top Austrian politicians have spoken out after the head of Graz’s Jewish community was attacked with a wooden club. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said authorities would…
Earth Overshoot Day slightly later this year due to Covid-19 pandemic
Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday, according to researchers who said the grim…
















