The U.S. debate intensified on Monday over when to lift restrictions to control the coronavirus outbreak, with protesters describing mandatory lockdowns as “tyranny” and New York’s governor and other officials urging caution until more testing becomes available. Stay-at-home measures, which experts say are essential to slow the spread of the virus, have ground the economy […]

Shake Shack said it will return the small business loan it received from the U.S. government, making it the first major firm to hand back money provided to help businesses ride out the impact of the coronavirus lockdown. The company will immediately return the entire $10 million U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loan as it […]

The United States, Mexico, and Canada are extending restrictions on non-essential travel across their shared borders for an additional 30 days, U.S. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said in a tweet.

Thousands of Britons have answered the call for backbreaking work on the country’s fruit and vegetable farms this summer as the coronavirus crisis keeps Eastern European workers away but it may still not be enough to secure the harvest. The National Farmers Union (NFU) says 70,000 to 80,000 jobs need to be filled and the […]

Wine consumption in the European Union is expected to fall this season due to the decision to close bars and restaurants to contain the coronavirus, with exports hit by extra U.S. tariffs, the EU’s executive said on Monday. The European Commission forecast wine consumption in the EU’s 27 member states to fall to 108 million […]

A gunman, who at one point masqueraded as a policeman, killed at least 16 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia during a 12-hour rampage, authorities said on Sunday, in what was the country’s worst modern-era mass shooting. Among the victims of the shooting spree that spread across part of the Atlantic Canadian province […]