Speaking at a news briefing today, hours before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a global pandemic, Gergely Gulyas, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, said the ban on the countries – the worst hit globally – would come into effect […]
Next week’s world figure skating championships in Montreal have been cancelled, announced Quebec’s health ministry on Wednesday. The event was scheduled for March 18-22 and the Bell Centre. The spread of the novel coronavirus caused Quebec health officials to evaluate whether the event should be […]
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s coronavirus death toll rose by almost 50% to 48, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday, adding new restrictions would be implemented to try and contain the outbreak. Speaking during a news conference in Paris shortly after the World Health […]
Mike Savage has announced that he will run for a third term as the mayor of Halifax, joining Coun. Matt Whitman as the only candidates to declare for the position in the upcoming Halifax Regional Municipality’s mayoral race. Savage confirmed to Global News on Wednesday […]
(Reuters) – The S&P 500 .SPX on Wednesday fell 20% below its Feb. 19 intraday record high, crossing the threshold into a bear market after the World Health Organization classified the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. Earlier in the session the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]
MONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Iran’s aviation authority has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kiev for analysis, Iran’s representative at the United Nations’ aviation agency told Reuters on Wednesday. Farhad Parvaresh, who heads Iran’s delegation at the U.N.’s Montreal-based International Civil […]
As cases of the new coronavirus grow around the globe so, too, does the number of people who have recovered. There have been more than 121,000 confirmed infections of COVID-19 worldwide as of March 11. While about 4,400 have died, just over half of those […]
New chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his first Budget – featuring a cigarette price hike, sick pay changes, new tax thresholds and minimum wage rates. There were also a string of measures designed to help the UK economy survive the global outbreak of coronavirus and […]
The flu-like disease, thought to have emerged in central China late last year, has infected more than 15,800 people and killed over 4,200 worldwide. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner insisted on Tuesday that “voting is safe” in a bid to persuade people to take part in […]
Italy’s economy has ground to a halt and poses a serious challenge to the EU with a lack of reforms and high public debt burdening the nation as the coronavirus puts the country on lockdown. The Italian government introduced a nationwide restriction on travel and […]
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