Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island plan to strike on Monday to call attention to the lack of protections for employees who continue to come to work amid the coronavirus outbreak. Nearly 100 workers at the facility, known as JFK8, plan
WASHINGTON, March 29. /TASS/. Russia and the United States have suspended bilateral inspection missions within the framework of the New START treaty on reduction of strategic nuclear arms, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association Daryl Kimball has told TASS.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea and Japan said, continuing a streak of weapons launches that suggests leader Kim Jong Un is trying to strengthen domestic support amid worries about
Moscow has ordered citizens to self-isolate starting Monday, despite the Russian government’s claims that the country is not facing a coronavirus epidemic. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that local officials will institute a system of special passes that will allow people to leave their homes. CLICK HERE
President Donald Trump on Sunday extended the national social distancing guidelines to April 30 in effort to keep the projected coronavirus death toll in the U.S. from reaching a catastrophic, worst-case scenario. Trump’s announcement walked back his previous remarks that he wanted
NINGBO, March 29 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Sunday inspected the resumption of work and production in east China’s Zhejiang Province. Xi visited the Chuanshan port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port,
French President Emmanuel Macron sought on Saturday to win over Italians, saying in an interview with Italy’s leading newspapers that France was there to help as the country recorded its highest one-day death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. “France is alongside
President Trump on Saturday night said the administration would not be issuing a quarantine on New York, parts of New Jersey and some of Connecticut as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus. “A quarantine will not be necessary,” he tweeted, noting
U.S. electric carmaker Tesla plans to slash on-site staff at its Nevada battery plant by around 75% due to the coronavirus pandemic, the local county manager said on Thursday. The move comes after its Japanese battery partner Panasonic said it would scale
TEHRAN, March 27. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the US to release Iranian researchers detained by the US government. He made this statement on Twitter on Friday. “US has taken several Iranian scientistshostage — without charge or