Exclusive: Lebanon approves financial rescue plan with ‘painful steps’
Lebanon’s government on Thursday approved a rescue plan to pull the country’s from its worst financial crisis in decades, including interest rate cuts, recapitalization of banks and other “painful steps”, according to a copy seen by Reuters.
Britain urges doctors to step up vigilance after third citizen infected with coronavirus
Britain said on Thursday a British national was confirmed to have contracted coronavirus after traveling to an Asian country other than China and told doctors to be vigilant to those showing symptoms from a wider range of countries.
Canadian police boost security at Coastal GasLink site
Canadian police imposed tighter security limits on Thursday in a remote area of northern British Columbia where indigenous protesters have blocked construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Trump ‘apoplectic’ with UK’s Johnson over Huawei decision: FT
U.S. President Donald Trump was “apoplectic” with Boris Johnson during a phone call to discuss the British prime minister’s decision to allow Chinese firm Huawei a role in Britain’s 5G mobile phone network, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
Abandoned and attacked, some Iraq protesters look to an ayatollah
After followers of a populist Iraqi Shi’ite cleric who had once supported anti-government protests attacked sit-ins this week, some activists are looking to one last vestige of the establishment for support: their ayatollah.
Syrian army enters rebel-held northwestern Saraqeb town in latest advance: state media
Russian-led Syrian government forces on Thursday entered Saraqeb town in northwestern Idlib province in the latest push to capture the last rebel stronghold, state media said.
McCarrick report expected soon but pope has last word: Vatican official
Work on a Vatican report into disgraced ex U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is complete and it may be released in the near future but Pope Francis will have the final word on timing, the Vatican’s number two said on Thursday.
Benetton cuts ties with photographer Toscani over Italy bridge remarks
Italy’s Benetton Group said on Thursday it has cut professional ties with Oliviero Toscani, the photographer behind the advertising campaign that helped make it a global brand in the 1980s, over remarks he made about a 2018 bridge collapse.
Peak coronavirus? Epidemic forecasts are often wrong but can be useful
Predicting “peak virus” is often destined to fail. But that’s not to say it is pointless.
Migrants in Serbia protest for passage to Hungary and EU
Dozens of migrants, trapped in Serbia, set out in freezing and windy weather on Thursday to walk about ten kilometers to the Hungarian border, demanding free and secure passage toward Western Europe, police said.
