President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that U.S. states are safely starting to reopen businesses, even as some public health officials warned that relaxing restrictio
Editor's note: This is the 44th article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is the previous one. Sacks of wheat flour at a World Food Programme distribution center in Sanaa, Yemen. /Reute
China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed the accusation of the U.S. that China should be responsible for the coronavirus pandemic that has affected over 2.56 milli
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a 484-billion-U.S.-dollar relief package that would increase funding for small businesses, hospitals and coronavirus testing as the COVID-19 fallout continues to r
A man jogs on an empty street along the Seine River in Paris, France, April 4, 2020. /AP The European Union says its vaunted tourism industry is facing "staggering" figures of decline because
A man wearing a face mask passes by gas pumps at a gas station in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, April 20, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Wu Jinduo is head of fixed income
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address at parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, February 13, 2020. /Reuters South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday anno
The coronavirus pandemic has presented plenty of challenges for ad-reliant social networks, but Snap made clear it was not yet feeling significant negative effects with its Q1 earnings release today.S
In recent years, fintech’s revolution has felt like a rising tide.Behemoths like Stripe and Square edged out banks while newbies like Brex nonchalantly raised nine-figure rounds. Today, however, the s
Researchers warn vaccine developers need to consider the impact of these "accumulating mutations... to avoid potential pitfalls".
"The real problem of the global supply-demand imbalance has started to really manifest itself in prices."Bjornar Tonhaugen, an analyst with Rystad Energy, told CGTN Europe why the West Texas Oil pric
Could the coronavirus crisis — and the way different countries have responded — make Silicon Valley VCs more bullish on European startups? That’s the thesis put forward by Salman Ullah, co-found
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, April 19, 2020. /AP Editor's note:Mike Cormack is a writer, editor and reviewer m
Zimbabwe extends its COVID-19 lockdown by another 14 days to May 3, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Sunday. The government imposed a 21-day lockdown from March 30 to curb the spread of COVI
There are many conspiracy theories swirling around the COVID-19 crisis, but Dr. Anthony Fauci rejected a conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab.Fauci, the leadin
02:40 Italy is one of the world's worst hit countries by COVID-19.When the cases were piling up fast in February, the healthcare system was overwhelmed. People were rushing to hospital
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have teamed up to launch their first product together since leaving the Facebook mothership. Rt.live is an up-to-date tracker of how fast COVID-19 is