Elite sport to continue in France despite lockdown: minister

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: French Junior Minister for Sports Roxana Maracineanu arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier PARIS…

UNC campus on lockdown as police search for armed and dangerous person

[ad_1] Authorities at the University of North Carolina on Monday issued a shelter-in-place order on campus and alerted the community of a person of interest in an “armed and dangerous…

Italy to tighten COVID curbs, but holds back from lockdown

[ad_1] By Angelo Amante, Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Italy will tighten COVID restrictions but is holding back from re-introducing a nationwide lockdown, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday…

German consumer morale falls further as lockdown pushes up savings rate

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Women with shopping bags walk through the city center in Nuremberg, Germany, November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD BERLIN (Reuters) – German consumer…

Italy’s firms shake lockdown using shortcut in coronavirus law

[ad_1] By Giselda Vagnoni, Valentina Za ROME/MILAN (Reuters) – Weeks into Italy’s coronavirus lockdown, thousands of Italian entrepreneurs have been given a bureaucratic shortcut to market. A worker wears a…

Germany’s partial lockdown is hitting skilled trades sector: ZDH

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Hans Peter Wollseifer, head of the German central association of craftsmanship (Zentralverbandes des Deutschen Handwerks) addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany, February 5, 2016 REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch…

Lockdown, what lockdown? Sweden’s unusual response – BBC News

[ad_1] 29 March 2020 To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Socialisers in Sweden: “I think we should be out for as long…

Sweden tightens COVID rules, but still no lockdown

[ad_1] STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden tightened social distancing rules for shopping centres, gyms and private gatherings on Friday and said it was ready to close businesses if needed, but stopped…

France grapples with lockdown backlash from small shops

[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – The French government promised on Sunday to support the nation’s beloved independent shops that fear losing their business to international giants, such as Amazon.com Inc, as…

Germany extends lockdown amid fear of coronavirus variants

[ad_1] By Sabine Siebold, Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will extend restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus until March 7, though schools and hair salons may open…