Spain broke two grim milestones on Tuesday, with coronavirus cases surging to beyond 600,000 and related deaths passing the 30,000 mark. Over the past month, Spain has become the worst-affected European Union country in terms of confirmed cases. France, with the second-highest number of...

 A group of 50 Democratic and Republican members of Congress is due to unveil $1.5 trillion bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday, in an election year effort to break a month-long impasse in COVID-19 talks between the White House and top Democrats. London judges,...

 Iran supports the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as long as the group protects Iranian interests alongside other members, Iran’s OPEC governor Amir Hossein Zamaninia said on Monday. Sixty years after its formation, OPEC’s founding members, Iran and...

The French economy will contract by 8.7 percent this year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the central bank estimated Monday, less than originally forecast due to consumer spending. The Bank of France had previously expected a 10.3-percent slump as companies reel from the impact of...