FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry a coffin of a 32-year-old man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as spotlights illuminate the graves during night burials at Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the…
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) – U.S. bankruptcies surged in March driven by a 41% jump in month to month filings by consumers, data firm Epiq AACER reported on Monday.Overall commercial filings also increased, though the Chapter 11 bankruptcy used by larger companies fell, the firm said.U.S. bankruptcies had declined through much of the pandemic year,…
FILE PHOTO: People sit at a cafe that reopened after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased, in Istanbul, Turkey March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Cansu AlkayaANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey recorded 41,998 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, slightly less than a record high it touched a day earlier…
(Reuters) -At least 22 members of Indian security forces were killed in a central Indian state by Maoist fighters, in one of the bloodiest attacks by the extreme left-wing insurgent group this year, officials said on Sunday.Security personnel belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force’s elite CoBRA unit, the District Reserve Guard, and the Special…
(Reuters) – One of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic minority rebel groups has warned major conflict with the military could soon erupt and has called for international intervention and protection of its people forced to flee fighting.Thai Army soldiers are seen in the background as Karen refugees carry their belongings at Salween riverbank in Mae Hong Son,…