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Tour de France organisers are working to find a new start date for cycling’s biggest race after large public gatherings were banned until mid-July in the latest extension of the French coronavirus lockdown.

It will be difficult to hold the Cannes film festival in its original form in 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak, organisers said Tuesday, adding they were looking at new ways of hosting the world’s biggest annual celebration of cinema.

It's half-time for lockdown in France. That's if President Emmanuel Macron can stick to his May 11 date for the start of deconfinement. But can the nation reopen schools and start up non-essential sectors of the economy without mass testing for all? So far, Macron is only promising Covid-19 screening for those who develop symptoms.

France on Tuesday reported 762 more COVID-19 deaths in hospitals and nursing homes, bringing its total toll from the epidemic to 15,729.

Former President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden in a video on Tuesday, giving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a boost from the party’s biggest fundraiser and one of its most popular figures.

Group of Seven (G7) finance officials on Tuesday vowed to continue to act as needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and stabilize the global economy, and threw their support behind temporary debt relief to the poorest countries.

Iraq has suspended the licence of the Reuters news agency after it published a story saying the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country was higher than officially reported.

A French court ruled Tuesday that Amazon must limit its operations to delivering only essential goods while it evaluates workers’ risks of coronavirus exposure, according to a ruling seen by AFP.

The number of new cases of COVID-19 is easing in some parts of Europe, including Italy and Spain, but outbreaks are still growing in Britain and Turkey, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Volunteers in one Indonesian village are helping to encourage people to stay at home and curb the spread of coronavirus by dressing up as ghosts and scaring anyone out on the street at night.

A spike in racial discrimination in China prompted by fears over the Covid-19 pandemic has led some in the African diapora to reevaluate the relationship between the African continent and Beijing.

Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 18,056 on Tuesday, Europe’s second highest after Italy, as the government began lifting lockdown restrictions on certain sectors of the economy.

As Italy went into lockdown at the end of February, the scientist-turned-novelist Paolo Giordano sat down and wrote an impassioned treatise on the mathematics behind contagion and the role of human behaviour in the spread of the new coronavirus. Paolo Giordano is best known for the best-selling novel "The Solitude of Prime Numbers"; he tells us about writing against the clock and his hopes for a new engagement with science. He also gives us a couple of tips on what to read while in confinement.

While sport fans around the world have been starved of action amid coronavirus-induced lockdowns, Burundi's football season is carrying on largely unperturbed — a decision some fans believe is endangering players and supporters alike. Outside the Intwari stadium, in the capital Bujumbura, fans have their temperature checked and are required to wash their hands. But once they are inside the stadium, no social distancing or sanitary measures are enforced. Click on the player above to watch the report.

North Korea launched multiple short-range anti-ship cruise missiles into the sea and Sukhoi jets fired air-to-surface missiles on Tuesday as part of its ongoing military exercises, South Korea's military said.

With Lebanon’s public health system struggling amid a deep economic crisis, the paramilitary group Hezbollah has marshalled its resources to play a prominent part in the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Hezbollah has contributed tens of thousands of medics and volunteers, as well as ambulances and equipment, to the fight against Covid-19. But political rivals say privately funding a parallel health network undermines the delicate power-sharing balance that underpins Lebanon’s government. Читать дальше...

The French government's budget deficit is set to hit a postwar record of nine percent of economic output this year due to the prolonged coronavirus lockdown, the budget minister said on Monday in the second revision in less than a week.

India's nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the biggest in the world, will be extended until at least May 3, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday.

After months of being on lockdown in an attempt to thwart the spread of Covid-19, the Chinese city of Guangzhou lifted restrictions on movement on March 27. Soon after, however, rumours started spreading on social media that there was a second wave of Covid-19 infections stemming from Guangzhou’s African community. As a result, many Africans were kicked out of hotels, barred from returning to their homes or even evicted. The FRANCE 24 Observers team spoke to several people affected.

The annual theatre festival in the French city of Avignon has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak, organisers said Monday, minutes after President Emmanuel Macron announced that major festivals could not take place until mid-July at the earliest.

China has approved early-stage human tests for two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus that killed over 100,000 people worldwide, state media Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

Seven Northeastern U.S. states and three on the West Coast formed regional pacts on Monday aimed at coordinating a gradual reopening of their economies without a resurgence of coronavirus infections just as the outbreak appeared to be starting to wane.

Turkey's parliament on Tuesday passed a law that will allow the release of tens of thousands of prisoners to ease overcrowding in jails and protect detainees from the coronavirus, but which critics slam for excluding those jailed on terrorism charges.

Israel's parliament speaker Benny Gantz was given 48 hours on Tuesday to reach a deal on an emergency unity government with his former election rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.