President Donald Trump is meeting with congressional leaders on Tuesday to discuss a payroll tax cut as part of efforts to provide “substantial relief” to businesses and individuals who suffer financially as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
“We’re also going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help...
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.
The 42-year-old took a test ‘as soon as the first symptoms appeared,’ the Elysee Palace said in a brief statement.
Mr Macron will isolate for seven days but plans to continue running the country via video conference.
Frantic contact tracing...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said Ukrainian forces had recaptured 6,000 square kilometres (2,320 square miles) of territory from Russia in a counter-offensive this month.
“Since the start of September, our soldiers have already liberated 6,000 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory in the east and south, and we are...
The British government on Sunday warned that outside exercise could be banned if people flout stringent guidelines to cut the spread of coronavirus infections.
The UK government on March 23 ordered a three-week shutdown of non-essential shops and services to cut close-contact transmission of the virus.
But warmer weekend weather has...
Russia on Friday said French President Emmanuel Macron was made to sit at an enormously long table for his talks with Vladimir Putin because he refused to take a Kremlin-performed Covid test.
The leaders sat at opposite ends of an unusually long table in the Kremlin on Monday, when Macron...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, a private military company, has been reportely killed in plane crash.
Ten people were on board the private jet that crashed in the north of Moscow, capital of Russia.
The Russian Civil Aviation Authority said seven passengers and three crew were on board the Embraer aircraft,...
Greece’s parliament on Wednesday elected the first female president in the country’s history.
She is 63-year-old Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, a senior judge with an expertise in environmental and constitutional law.
A cross-party majority of 261 MPs voted in her favour, parliament chief Costas Tassoulas said.
“Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou has been elected president of the...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to return to work soon after his recovery from COVID-19, as pressure mounts on his government to explain how to get Britain out of lockdown.
Johnson, 55, has been recuperating at the British prime ministerial retreat, Chequers, outside London since his release from hospital...
Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday as leader of Britain’s Conservative party, paving the way for the selection of a new prime minister after dozens of ministers quit his scandal-hit government.
“It is clearly the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party,...
President Bola Tinubu, in his capacity as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, has issued a passionate call for solidarity among ECOWAS member states, emphasizing the need to rebuff divisive elements threatening regional cohesion.
Speaking during the inauguration of the Sixth Legislature of the ECOWAS...
