Turkey re-opens restaurants, cafes and parks on Monday and lifts inter-city travel curbs as the country eases restrictions taken to fight the coronavirus outbreak. ( read original story ...)
Libya conflict: Russia and Turkey risk Syria repeat
Libya looks to be at the end of one bleak chapter, but there is no guarantee that the next will be any better for a country that has been torn to pieces by civil war and foreign intervention since Col ... ( read original story ...)
Philippines confirms three more deaths from coronavirus, 552 new cases
The Philippine health ministry on Monday reported three new deaths and 552 more confirmed cases of the coronavirus. In a bulletin, the ministry said total deaths increased to 960 and confirmed cases ... ( read original story ...)
Philippines Capital Comes Back to Life Although Virus Threat Lingers
Millions of people returned to work in the Philippine capital on Monday as one of the world's strictest and longest coronavirus lockdowns was eased to help resuscitate an economy that has been ... ( read original story ...)
Philippines Allows Soft Post-Lockdown Reopening to Avert Dire Economic Fall
The Philippine government lifted some of its strictest coronavirus containment measures Monday in what observers called a bid to salvage an economy battered by unemployment and new signs of poverty. ( read original story ...)
Japan city aims to ban phone use while walking
It is a scene repeated the world over: pedestrians glued to their phones while walking, causing collisions and sometimes accidents. No more, says one Japanese city. Officials in Yamato city, near ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus news live: South Africa reverses decision to open schools; Japan could allow overseas visitors
Brazil passes 500,000 Covid-19 cases; India extends lockdown in ‘high-risk’ zones; UK ministers defend easing lockdown ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s April tax revenues see biggest monthly drop in over a decade
Japan's tax revenue dropped 29.4% in April compared with a year earlier, finance ministry data showed on Monday, posting its biggest monthly year-on-year decline since August 2009, after the payment ... ( read original story ...)
Japan parliament to debate second extra budget for pandemic relief next week
Japan's government will submit to parliament early next week a second extra budget to fund a new $1.1 trillion stimulus package to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic, Prime ... ( read original story ...)
Virus-hit cruise liner leaves Japan after a month’s quarantine
The Costa Atlantica cruise ship, which docked in southern Japan with over 100 crew members testing positive for COVID-19, has left the country and is en route to the Philippines, local government ... ( read original story ...)