Oil prices rose on Friday as President Donald Trump laid out plans to ease the U.S. coronavirus lockdown and on reports, later played down, that a drug may potentially help treat COVID-19. Brent rose by 54 cents, or 1.9%, to $28.36 a barrel by 1133 GMT, and U.S. crude CLc2 for June was up 4...

The French military has defended its handling of the spread of the coronavirus aboard its flagship aircraft carrier, after more than a third of sailors tested positive for the disease. Nearly 700 out of 1,767 sailors in the carrier group that includes the flagship Charles de Gaulle have so...

Germany said on Friday a month-long lockdown had brought the coronavirus pandemic under control, announcing plans to manufacture 50 million masks a week ahead of the first steps to loosen restrictions. Smaller shops will be allowed to reopen from Monday and some children could soon return...

Russia’s oil output deal with leading global producers will have an impact on global markets once it begins to be implemented, the Kremlin said on Friday. “The impact from the deal will come,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told reporters on a conference call. Russia...