Paris, April 15 (RHC)-- Amazon's French warehouses have been restricted to shipping essential goods only until a safety assessment can be conducted, after unions demanded the megacorporation adopt better employee protection measures.... More


Berlin, April 15 (RHC)-- A German app developer has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic gives Silicon Valley tech giants perfect cover to suck up personal data. However, while the government may intervene, the tech firms aren’t known for listening.... More


El Salvador's police forces ensuring compliance with sanitary measures | Photo: Twitter/@NoticiasMenotty

San Salvador, April 15 (RHC)-- The Salvadorean Legislative Assembly extended the state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic until April 16th, a news report has revealed.  During the extension, lawmakers from the Central American country will draw up a new legal project that is in line with the real needs generated by the pandemic. ... More


Red Cross delivers 46 tons of medical supplies in Caracas, Venezuela, April 13, 2020.  (Photo: EFE)

Caracas, April 15 (RHC)-- According to data compiled through April 11th, Venezuela had carried out 181,335 COVID-19 tests, which allowed Venezuelan health authorities to detect patients in time and become the Latin American nation with the lowest infection rate.... More


Asuncion, April 15 (RHC)-- Paraguay's government has denounced that their neighbors in Brazil retained 50 respirators purchased by the Ministry of Health to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


Washington, April 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. will suspend funding to the World Health Organization while it reviews the agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, claiming the international health agency made mistakes that “caused so much death” as the coronavirus spread across the globe.... More


Washington, April 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a group of Northeastern states — New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island — have announced that they are developing a coordinated plan to end coronavirus lockdowns and reopen schools and businesses.... More


Dead pile up in Detroit hospitals.  (Photo: CNN)

Detroit, April 14 (RHC)-- Hospitals at coronavirus hot spots around the United States are reporting dire conditions as they deal with a surge in critically sick patients. ... More


Havana, April 14 (RHC)-- At least 1,920,918 COVID-19 infections have been confirmed worldwide, and 119,686 people have died so far, with the United States leading all nations in both the number of cases and the death toll, followed by major Western European countries.... More


New York, April 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of New York, the statewide death toll from COVID-19 has topped 10,000, as total confirmed cases near 200,000 .. over half of these in New York City.... More


Migrants on board German rescue vessel will be transferred to another ship for screening and quarantine.

Rome, April 14 (RHC)-- Italy has ordered migrants and refugees on board a rescue ship off its coast to be quarantined on another vessel to test them for the coronavirus before allowing them to disembark.  ... More


Walt Disney World plans to stop paying wages to 43,000 workers due to COVID-19.  (Photo: AFP)

Orlando, April 14 (RHC)-- Walt Disney World plans to stop paying wages to 43,000 workers in about a week while allowing them to keep their benefits for up to a year in what is the largest wave of furloughs since the theme park resort closed in mid-March because of the COVID-19 spread.... More


A commuter in Paris on March 23, 2020.  (Photo: © Alain Jocard / AFP)

Paris, April 14 (RHC)-- The EU is reportedly prepared to adopt a common strategy for COVID-19 tracking apps amid calls to create a pan-European software model.  Such projects have been met with privacy concerns and legal hurdles in Germany and France.... More


Berlin, April 14 (RHC)-- The coronavirus pandemic has become a tough test of the EU’s unity, and a small German border town is actively failing it.  Officials have sounded the alarm over a spike in aggression from the locals towards visitors from France.... More


Tehran, April 14 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says U.S. imperialism is a virus that is "more dangerous" than the new coronavirus for the international community. ... More


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