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Poles defy virus warnings to rally for abortion rights

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Warsaw and across Poland on Friday, defying government orders and risking coronavirus contagion to voice their anger at a court ruling banning almost all abortions. Waving gay pride flags and chanting anti-government slogans, protesters in Warsaw...

Nature loss means deadlier future pandemics, UN warns

Future pandemics will happen more often, kill more people and wreak even worse damage to the global economy than Covid-19 without a fundamental shift in how humans treat nature, the United Nations' biodiversity panel said Thursday. Warning that there are up to 850,000 viruses which, like...

Global economic rebound at risk from rising coronavirus cases

There is a high risk the resurgence in coronavirus cases halts the global economic recovery by year-end, according to Reuters polls of around 500 economists, a majority of whom expected the rebound next year to be weaker than previously thought. Governments and central banks around the...